Happy New Year! Here are four ways you can take action to help us #ProtectHoweSound in 2018. Continue reading

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.  Continue reading

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... Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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. Why would we put the McNab Creek estuary at risk when there are many alternative locations to put a gravel mine in less sensitive habitat? Continue reading

Woodfibre LNG has been awfully quiet lately. What exactly have they been up to? And what are we doing to stop them? Here's the update: Continue reading

Burnco Rock Products wants to build a large scale open pit gravel mine in the McNab Creek watershed in Howe Sound, despite widespread opposition. This highly destructive project threatens McNab Creek, which is one of only three salmon-bearing estuaries in Howe Sound. Save Continue reading

Pacific Northwest LNG has announced that it is cancelling its project on Lelu Island, "due to changes in market conditions." The BC Liberals are already blaming the BC NDP, but the reality is that prices for LNG have plummeted more than 70% in the last few years, making it uneconomic to proceed without massive subsidies from BC taxpayers. Save Continue reading

Happy 2017 everyone! This year is already shaping up to be a very busy one for My Sea to Sky as we work hard to stop Woodfibre LNG in the lead-up to the Provincial election. Continue reading