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UNDER the watchful eye of directors like Richard Robinson, foreground, and Rod Day, members of the West Vancouver

Citizens for Good Government cast their ballots on the best electoral candidates.

Katharine Hamer
News Reporter kathnrine@nsnews.com

INDEPENDENT scientists hired to audit
an ecological inventory of Lower Mainland
watersheds have slammed the Greater
Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) for
its analytical focus.

ting the Water — the third report of the Scientitie Review
Panel (SRP) —~ was presented to the GVRD Water Commitice

last week
The report expresses some
the a

‘rious doubts about the nature of

Scientists stress shortcomings
of GVRD ecological inventory

ntation to the GVRP, SRP co-author Pe
nous criticisms of the purely tech-
nical work that has been done... the quality of this work ts ade-
quate for your purpe which is to design a management plan.”
But, Pearse continued, “We have some very seriaus concerns
about the scope and design of the anal work to provide the
basis for your management plan... we have found some significant
» Which we believe must be dealt with before you can
esign a reliable management plan that will best protect the water

for the people of Greater Vancouver.”

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Pearse said the panel bad “no

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Katharine Hamer
News Reporter katharine@nsnews.com

IN the United Kingdom, politi-
cians do ali
they can to
ensure the
electoral
support of
tabloid
newspapers
— whose
endorse-
ment may be the deciding factor
between victory and oblivion.

In West Vancouver, the municipality’s expatriate

ens often look closer to home for affirmation
of their political choices.

Members of the West Vancouver Citiz
Good Government (WVCGG) assemble
three years to cast their own votes on the best men
(and women) for municipal jobs — and their
endorsements almost always mirror the votes cast
by the voting public on polling day.

“It’s hard to say whether they got in because of
us or whether they would have got in anyway,”
muses WVCGG president Richard Robinson.

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Dr. Pearse told Water Conmittce members at the meeting
thar the panel had “detected, and this is quite disturbing to us, w
have detected a ff of contusion abour what (GVRD planning
staft) are supposed to be doing.”

The SRP report comments on the “extraordinary detail in
which certain management issu : investigated, notably fire
history and fire hazard, and pests, although these are shown to
have little effect on water quality, In contrast, means of respond-
ing to the main threat to water quality — landslides ~ is largely
ignored.”

“Certain other matters,” the report continued, “which the
panel considers central to management planning for the water-
sheds are not analyzed. Among these, the absence of explicit

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