Last week the Gabriola Sounder reported that the Islands Trust recommends a ban on commercial extraction of groundwater. Now the Dailiy News has a story on this, too: Islands Trust wants province to look at groundwater regulations. I thought you might like to see Sheila Malcolmson’s letter to the province, which seems to be the [...]
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You might be interested in reading this article on the Gulf islands and the Islands Trust published by BC Business. Given that it’s a business magazine, and the article is in their real estate edition, one presupposes a certain point of view… A Matter of Trust: B.C. Gulf Islands Real Estate
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When election time comes around, are you ever tempted to run for the position of Islands Trust trustee? (Gabriola’s current trustee is Sheila Malcolmson.) If you’re interested in running next year, you might like to know that the renumeration for this position is to be raised to $17,615 per year – up from $10,200. This [...]
From the Gulf Island Driftwood: Findings promote new land targets. Increased landowner stewardship is needed if there’s any hope of preserving the natural health and biodiversity of the Gulf Islands, according to findings contained within a draft version of the Islands Trust Fund’s new Regional Conservation Plan. More than 75 per cent of the Islands [...]
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Gabriola has had problems with abandoned boats from time to time – vessels left rotting in the harbour or on a beach. How to deal with this problem? And what else can be done to protect the marine environment around Gabriola? The Islands Trust has been working on these issues. Today they wrote: Two key [...]
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Should the Islands Trust hire a consultant to study Gabriola’s groundwater? The Trust is holding a special meeting next Wednesday evening, August 18th, to discuss this. The blurb says: The Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee is considering participating in a groundwater study of Gabriola Island, along with other agencies. Dr. Gilles Wendling is proposing to [...]
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Gabriola’s Sheila Malcolmson has an article in the Vancouver Sun today: Islands Trust is real democracy at work. The article mentions that Islanders regularly consider governance, too, voting in several referendums over the past few years. In 1999, Bowen Island voted to incorporate as an island municipality within the Islands Trust. Saltspring Islanders defeated a [...]
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By now you’ve heard that some islanders are fussing about the role the Islands Trust has in local governance. An article in the Bowen Island Undercurrent, Petition questions Islands Trust’s value, has more details. It quotes Gabriola’s Sheila Malcolmson, too. Sheila says, among other things: I’d argue that the environment is at the foundation of [...]
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From the Victoria Times Colonist: Hundreds decry Gulf Islands governance. A Sunday afternoon protest on Saltspring Island over governance of the Gulf Islands drew more than 300 people to Centennial Park in Ganges, protest organizers estimated. Given that it was cloudy and threatening to rain, we were quite surprised that many people came out, said [...]
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Here’s a bit from the press release the Islands Trust published today: The Islands Trust has initiated a project to address the issue of food security in the Islands Trust Area and provide public education through a new food security web page. The Islands Trust can support food security by creating policies that deliberately link [...]
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I went looking for a map of Gabriola streams and wetlands. This isn’t quite what I had in mind, but it’s useful nonetheless: Gabriola Island Local Trust Area Freshwater Ecosystem Map (.pdf). It’s from the Islands Trust, of course.
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Did you know that the RCMP is thinking of removing staff from some island detachments, and/or amalgamating detachments? I didn’t, but then, I don’t go to Islands Trust meetings; apparently this was discussed at the December Trust Council meeting. The Islands Trust has just published a letter (.pdf here) that Sheila Malcolmson sent to Attorney [...]
You probably heard what BC Ferries’ financial officer Rob Clarke told the Gabriola Ferry Advisory Committee last month: BC Ferries blames Islands Trust for high fares. Islands Trust land-use policies are creating a scarcity of developable land, driving real estate prices up, pushing out young people and replacing them with retirees who travel less, said [...]
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The Gabriola Island Affordable Housing Assessment Report (.pdf) is now on the Islands Trust website for you to read. It’s 54 pages long, so of course it covers lots of stuff. The part that makes me sad is this section on homelessness: As in many places throughout BC the homeless population on Gabriola is hidden. [...]
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From the Daily News: No interest in proposal to pipe water to Gabriola. A Gabriola resident’s idea to pipe water to the island from Nanaimo failed to get a bite from the Islands Trust on Thursday. Jeremy Baker made his pitch to the Islands Trust committee struck to deal with a growing water shortage problem. [...]
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From canada.com: Island tax exemption programs will expand. The Islands Trust is expanding its Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program to Gabriola and Thetis islands. With the consent of the Nanaimo and Cowichan Valley Regional Districts, the property tax exemption program, first introduced in 2005 in the Sunshine Coast and Capital Regional Districts, is moving [...]
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Islands Trust Representatives elected: MALCOLMSON, Sheila: 932 FERENS, Deborah: 870 Not elected: MOELLER, Eric: 172 LOWDEN, Ian: 142 BOEHM, David: 129 RALPH, John: 82 Source: Islands Trust. Regional District of Nanaimo Directors Elected: Maureen Young Holme George Joseph Stanhope David Bartram Gisele Rudischer: 674 Joe Burnett: 490 Lucien Biggemann: 465 Not elected: Ceridwen Peacey: 450 [...]
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