Port Harvey Marine Industrial Zoning Hearing Report 7/2017

hardee · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:31 am Post subject:

The next meeting is scheduled for Sept 19. I don't know what time yet. It should be a public comment and letter acceptance meeting. Please write or consider coming up to Port McNeil. This is a case of little David up against an environmental Goliath and David is running out of stones.

Harvey
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Pandion · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:35 am Post subject:

Thanks for the new information, Harvey. Please keep up your good reporting on this subject!

ghone · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 11:37 pm Post subject: Port Harvey

Hi all. Some of the BC Brats have likely sent in emails or calls to the Regional District link Harvey provided. I have voiced my concern with them and it all counts. Our US friends can surely chime in as cruising people bring tourist dollars and word of mouth to others. Don't be shy to send a note in support. The whole area is under pressure in not only this instance but the wild salmon /caged salmon issue. Lots of Industry pressures to some wild BC waters. Thanks for the concern everyone.
George

Pandion · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:24 am Post subject:

Harvey sent me an Aug. 18 article in the Port Hardy weekly, the North Island Eagle. Here's a link to it.

And here are some select quotes from the article:

“I have real fear in this situation, because I think it’s going to escalate. “I have real distress in holding things up for too long. I believe the RCMP should already be involved in this,” [emphasis added] said Malcolm Island
(Area A) Director Heidi Soltau. “This is a lose, lose situation,” Soltau added.

“This is huge. There are so many pros and cons. I personally would like to go out there and see what we are talking about,” said Port Alice Mayor Jan Allen.

“I’m not comfortable voting for this at all (today),” said Port Hardy Councillor Pat Corbett-Labatt.

Are my eyes deceiving me, or is one of the board members saying she thinks there may be criminal activity involved in this matter?

Pandion · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:27 am Post subject:

Harvey sent me an Aug. 18 article in the Port Hardy weekly, the North Island Eagle. Here's a link to it.

And here are some select quotes from the article:

— “I have real fear in this situation, because I think it’s going to escalate. “I have real distress in holding things up for too long. I believe the RCMP should already be involved in this,” [emphasis added] said Malcolm Island
(Area A) Director Heidi Soltau. “This is a lose, lose situation,” Soltau added.

— “This is huge. There are so many pros and cons. I personally would like to go out there and see what we are talking about,” said Port Alice Mayor Jan Allen.

— “I’m not comfortable voting for this at all (today),” said Port Hardy Councillor Pat Corbett-Labatt.

Are my eyes deceiving me, or is one of the board members saying she thinks there may be criminal activity involved in this matter?

Pandion · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:28 am Post subject:

Sorry, duplicate post.

hardee · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Port Harvey

hardee · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Port Harvey

Pandion · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 2:09 pm Post subject:

Fellow Brats, in case you haven't seen what all the uproar is about, here is what the folks in Port Harvey are working to save:

ghone · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 3:46 pm Post subject:

This is a small remote marina with a rare walkable area. Situated next to a beautiful estuary it has flat areas with the bush back aways. The forest typically comes into the sea so this is a rare spot that has amenities and a walkable foreshore. I may be in the Broughtons mid Sept so will see about attending. I'm in Antigua Guatemala traveling with family at the moment. Back end of August. Heavy industry doesn't belong in the area.
George

hardee · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 10:55 pm Post subject:

Andy, Thanks for posting that. It is a great photo and really shows off the "neighborhood". George's description is right on; There are few places you can get out and walk around the fore shore.

Thanks again,

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

hardee · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:41 am Post subject:

I talked to Peter Stockdill today, and he had some encouraging words. There has been a change in the BC government in the last couple of months, and the new Minister of Environment is meeting with him tomorrow to explore the situation at Port Harvey. Also, the Commission members are aware that they are dealing with a concern much bigger that anything they have dealt with before and are there for being very careful in there decision making.

Might have some daylight in the mix, but still there is a lot in the balance.

Stick around, the road still has some curves and bumps.

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

hardee · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 2:05 pm Post subject:

thataway · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:20 pm Post subject:

Are these changes to the shore line permitted? Wow, in Florida if you dump one rock and alter the shoreline--DEP is all over you with fines.

hardee · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:40 pm Post subject:

Not yet. His lease and zoning are for residential use. In his application he admits to "stretching" the uses, and asks for retroactive permission for those activities. The Mount Waddington Regional Planning District does not have the financial resources or the enforcement provisions to assure that the use permits are followed. (My thinking that is one of the main reasons he is locating as far as he is back into the islands and away from the populated areas, [if you can call Seyward, Pt McNeil, or even Campbell River] populated, but they are out of the main marine traffic areas, which is the source of their appeal.

Harvey
SleepyC Moon