BC's government seems to be pushing ahead with the Gateway project despite criticism concerning the environmental impacts of the plans. The Gateway plans have been developed without a full and impartial cost/benefit analysis, without public consultation, and without a cumulative effects assessment. Please read this paper. It represents the concerns of a number of environmental groups about this issue and is call to get you involved or to speak out.

Gateway to global warming

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.26 - No.02, Spring 2007

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You might enjoy helping out those who are actively fighting to stop the Gateway developments and save the environment.

Gateway 30 Network
Phone: 604-536-2790
www.stopgateway.ca
A network of organizations from south of the Fraser River fighting Gateway including ACORN Community Services; Against Port Expansion (APE); BC NDP Agriculture Committee; BC Great Blue Heron Society; Birdland Residents Association; Boundary Bay Conservation Committee; Bridgeview Community Association; Burns Bog Conservation Society www.burnsbog.org ; Canadian Action Party www.canadianactionparty.ca/home.html; Canadian Auto Workers, local 111 (bus drivers); Central Valley Naturalists; Delta Residents for a Healthy Community; East Ladner Residents Association; Federation of BC Naturalists; Fraser River Coalition; Fraser Valley Conservation Coalition; Green Party of BC; Langara Students for Sustainable Transportation; Langley Conservation Network; Livable Region Coalition (Langley Chapter); Port Mann Community Association; SmartGrowth BC; Student Action for the Environment (SAFE) – Kwantlen Students; Sunbury Neighbourhood Association www.sunburyneighbourhood.ca; Surrey Environmental Partners; Soil and Water Conservation Assoc of BC; There is Another Way – Hoover/Naas; Wilderness Committee; and White Rock/South Surrey Naturalists.

Gateway Sucks
www.gatewaysucks.ca
A small but growing group of individuals who are, in their words, “ticked off” about the Gateway Program.

Please accept our apologies to groups working to stop Gateway that were inadvertently missed.

APE (Against Port Expansion in Delta)
Phone: 604-946-3969
www.againstportexpansion.org
Educating local citizens about the negative impacts of Deltaport expansions and related infrastructure. APE urges people to contact elected politicians.

SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation)
Phone: 604-736-7732
www.spec.bc.ca
A non-profit charitable organization that addresses environmental issues in British Columbia, with a particular focus on urban communities in Lower Mainland and the Georgia Basin. The full copy of SPEC’s Cooking the Books report can be found here

Livable Region Coalition
www.livableregion.ca
Supports the GVRD’s Livable Region Strategic Plan and believes the Province’s Highway #1 expansion threaten LRSP principles and will weaken the region’s growth management goals. LRC’s members include the David Suzuki Foundation; SPEC; Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST); Smart Growth BC; BC Sustainable Energy Coalition; Burke Mountain Naturalists; Sierra Club of Canada (BC Chapter); Transport 2000 BC; and West End Residents Association. LRC’s “alternatives” and other policy papers can be found on their web site.

Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST)
www.best.ca
Offers innovative programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and to inform people about the environmental, health and community issues surrounding transportation.

Coalition to Save Eagleridge Bluffs
www.eaglerisgebluffs.ca
A group of individuals, elected officials, organizations and other supporters who are standing up to protect the Eagleridge Bluffs, the Larson Creek Wetlands and the Baden Powell Trail from destruction. Although not specifically part of the Gateway Project, the destruction of Eagleridge Bluffs was the first part of the BC government’s environmentally destructive transportation plan that was imposed on an unwilling community.