The tree sit is gone, and so is all the life where the interchange is slated to go. However, there is still much of the mountain left that can still be protected. Concerned citizens are still working hard to expose the corruption, conflict of interest, suspension of democracy, ecocide, genocide, violations of civil liberties and all other travesties occurring around Bear Mountain Resorts and related infrastructure.
Map Showing location of Spaet Mountain, CRD View
Follow this link for news and action alerts from Spaet Mountain Action Coalition, Coalition to Protect Goldstream Watershed, Hundred Voices of Conscience and other groups involved in this campaign. For archived news on the efforts of the tree sit, follow this link.
treesit.blogspot.com
is the original web presence of the campaign to save the area impacted by the Bear Mountain interchange. Focus has now shifted closer to Spaet Mountain, as resistance to the expansion of development in this area grows.
First Nations: Land Rights and Environmentalism is a German website that seems to be the most well-researched and informative website 9and one of the only ones) on it’s specific issue.
Langfordprotest.org is a highly informative website from a Langford citizen concerned with the issues of democracy, civil liberties and community solidarity.
Inside Langford is a good source for news and commentary on the political issues surrounding events on Spaet Mountain and in Langford.
Spencer’s Pond, I gotta say is my favourite website. Rob Bowen has done a beautiful job studying and documenting the pond eco-system being impacted by the interchange project. No one was closer to the pond. Literally, Rob and his family lived in the last house on the pond side of Leigh Avenue.
Zoe has been the most reliable and steadfast source of news for this campaign since day one, and though not a leader, is beloved and amazing and speaks for the land. Her blog is funny, fiesty, fiery and straight to the bone.
