Monday, April 2, 2007

Protect BC's Farmland from Gateway & Deltaport

As a recent Vancouver Sun article said today "Maintaining our current level of food self- reliance in 2025 would require a 30- per- cent increase in agricultural production". Instead, our Provincial Government is planning to pave the richest farmlands in BC to build the South Fraser Perimeter Road and to permit the building of a rail switching yard and huge container storage lots...

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Building Coalitions

What a great really yesterday at the East Delta Hall. Many thanks to Donna Passmore for pulling it all together.

A common theme among all the speakers was the need to work together - to share information, resources, passion - everything that will help us get the message out to the community at large and through the thick skulls of the politicians that haven't figured out the mess that Gateway will cause.

www.gatewaysucks.org is a local website provides lots of great examples of "actions" that any of us can take to make a difference.

If you know of any other good sites to link here, send them on...

Ernie