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— but for the first time in
years I feel we have finaliy
changed direction. The
taken othe first. concrete
step.”

“Et’s almost a watershed
event,” said Bill Morrell, “ho
pun intended.”

Morrell was pleased but
surprised to witness at last
the agreement of both pre
sure groups and GVRD sta

“When I was at the meet:
ing,” he joked, “1 looked our
of the window and thought,

I better check the colour
y and see if we're in
the same universe today,”

Hundal says he feels chat
SPEC’s views “have finally
been validated” — in part by
the findings of the Scientitic
Review Panel appointed by
the GVRD to assess their
ecological inventory of the
watersheds.

The review panel found
several flaws in the ecological
inventory, and suggested that
the notion of cutting down
trees to prevent forest fires
and pests in the watersheds
was wrong-headed.

The main threat to water
quality landslides as a
result of tree-cutting — was
“largely ignored,” the scien-
tists stated in their report,

ENVIRONMENTALIST
Paul Hundal sees a turn-
ing point in water policy.

Testing the Water.

The GVRD board vote on
altering the Amending
Indenture came just weeks
after its water committte —
whose members include West
Vancouver mayor Pat

an

and North

sr Distrier councillor

rolan — narrowly

retain the clause

within the original leasing
agreements,

Wednesday's vote estab-
lished five key principles for
the preparation of the water-
shed management plan, due
OUT NeXt :

B the provision of clean, sate
water;

& environmental stewardship
in the watersheds:

@ inimum intervention in
the watersheds, to be carried
out only as absolutely neces-
SCV

@ the return of areas dis-
turbed by human activities to
a pre-: state:
transparent and open deci-
sion-making processes (the
next public consultation is on
Nov. 27 at Robson Square
Conference Centre).

Said Hundal: “We're
finally on the same score
sheet. This is truly a turning
point.”

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