My Sea to Sky is at VIMFF!

We are incredibly excited to announce that My Sea to Sky is presenting at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (aka VIMFF) this year!

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Oil spill in Howe Sound

A barge has sunk near Port Mellon, dumping hundreds of litres of diesel into the marine environment and a pod of orcas were spotted very close to shore in West Sechelt a few days ago.

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Have your say on Professional Reliance

Over the last 10 years, the BC Liberals handed over the keys to the (environmental) henhouse to the foxes (industry/developers) with a system of Professional Reliance (PR) that has created a huge accountability and oversight hole, and continues to result in serious environmental degradation.

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Four ways to take action to #ProtectHoweSound

Happy New Year! Here are four ways you can take action to help us #ProtectHoweSound in 2018. Help us get a meeting with Minister Heyman: ask your friends & family to sign our Burnco letter … Thank you for sending a letter about Burnco!

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Who are our Howe Sound heroes? You are.

Howe Sound is full of everyday heroes, just like you and me. People that are willing to speak up and work together to protect Howe Sound. This is a critical time for Howe Sound, as this fragile and recovering ecosystem is threatened. Howe Sound is full of everyday heroes, just like you and me.

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All I want for Christmas...

The first time I saw Howe Sound, my partner and I were fresh out of university and Squamish was our first stop on a three-month climbing trip around North America. As we drove from Vancouver along the Sea to Sky Highway in an old Dodge Caravan, we saw...

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Join me in Protecting Howe Sound ~ our jewel !

Do you remember Joni Mitchell's song? Don't it always seem to go … That you don't know what you've got t ill it's gone … They paved paradise a nd put up a parking lot … That is not the case for Howe Sound: we know exactly what we have to lose because we lost it once before.

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Why I'm hopping mad

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has turned down the Burnco gravel mine twice before. Yet the BC EAO is recommending that the Ministers rubber stamp the project, even though the salmon data being used to assess the project for McNab Creek comes from consultants hired by Burnco.

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TAKE ACTION! Send a letter to the Ministers to help stop Burnco

Our endangered Southern Resident Orcas are starving because there are not enough wild salmon for them to eat. Estuaries provide critical spawning habitat for wild salmon, yet the proposed BURNCO gravel mine threatens one of only three estuaries we have in Howe Sound.

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