Biologically-Respectful Tourism - LinkBC
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TABLE 6: OTHER CAMPAIGN AIMS AND PERCEIVED SUCCESSES OR FAILURES<br />
Campaign<br />
Name<br />
Aim of Campaign<br />
Primary<br />
target<br />
Results<br />
Comments<br />
Environment &<br />
jobs project<br />
To employ displaced forest workers in park<br />
related restoration projects.<br />
NS<br />
Employed 6 workers for 18 months in<br />
projects ranging from creation of wildlife<br />
nesting areas, trail installation and<br />
maintenance.<br />
Open burning<br />
By‐law Sechelt<br />
Hoped to get developers in the area to stop<br />
burning land‐clearing slash.<br />
Gov<br />
Bylaws were passed on both issues by the<br />
District of Sechelt. Continued pressures in<br />
the SCRD begin with limited ban and then<br />
to a total ban on all outdoor burning from<br />
April 15 to October 15.<br />
Backyard<br />
burning ban in<br />
Sechelt and ban<br />
on cosmetic<br />
pesticides in<br />
Sechelt.<br />
Educate the public; educate the Mayor and<br />
Councilors of Sechelt; to enact bylaws for<br />
backyard burning and the use of cosmetic<br />
pesticides.<br />
Gov<br />
The Town of Gibsons was an early leader in<br />
enacting bylaws to ban backyard burning<br />
and ban the use of cosmetic pesticides. This<br />
was a good incentive for Sechelt to do the<br />
same. Bylaws were passed on both issues<br />
by the District of Sechelt.<br />
Continued efforts contribute to ban on all<br />
outdoor burning in the SCRD from April 15 –<br />
October 15.<br />
Biofuels as<br />
energy<br />
alternative<br />
To promote the use of high quality biofuels as<br />
diesel fuel alternatives.<br />
NS<br />
Small group of diesel car members are<br />
using purified vegetable oil from<br />
restaurants waste.<br />
Limited amount of wasted oil limits growth of<br />
project to possibly 100 diesel car owners.<br />
Other energy alternative organizations are in<br />
initial stages of developing in the region.<br />
Save Our<br />
Sunshine Coast<br />
To stop a UK‐based mining company from<br />
building a deep sea port with a 10km conveyor<br />
belt in Wood Bay, a residential area. They<br />
acquired the mineral rights to the Sechelt<br />
GP<br />
Federal government called for a<br />
comprehensive environmental assessment.<br />
Pan Pacific Aggregates withdrew and sold<br />
the property in question.<br />
Project had almost 100% support from the<br />
communities on the Sunshine Coast. The area<br />
that the proposed aggregate mining site is<br />
home to many bird species, some<br />
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