Sludge Watch ==> Canada- Sierra Legal lawsuit to require secondary treatment sewage management in Victoria BC

[Maureen Reilly]

As you may have  heard, on July 21st  there was a major development in the
Canada Sierra Legal fight to attain sewage treatment for Victoria when 
BC's Environment Minister announced
that the city would need to submit a plan for sewage treatment to the
Province by June of 2007.

http://sierralegal.org/m_archive/pr06_07_21.html

Now Sierra Legal is following through on this momentum by launching a
private
prosecution against the Greater Vancouver Regional District and the Province
of BC, and demanding that West Vancouver's Lions Gate sewage plant and
Richmond's
Iona plant be upgraded to secondary treatment levels.  In 1995 we launched a
similar lawsuit against the GVRD over concerns with its Annacis Island
treatment
plant.  Within weeks of that move, all three levels of government committed
to
secondary sewage treatment.  We are now working for the same outcome for the
GVRD's two remaining primary treatment plants.  Here is links to our press
release
and an article from today's Globe and Mail.

Press Release: <http://sierralegal.org/m_archive/pr06_08_02.html>
Globe and Mail:
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060803.wxbcclayoquot03
/BNStory/National/home>

Sierra Legal has a formal goal of attaining secondary level sewage treatment
for Vancouver and Victoria by 2010.  If you have any questions on these
cases
please contact us.

Sincerely,


Kori Brus
Development Officer
Sierra Legal
214 - 131 Water Street
Vancouver, BC  V6B 4M3

Phone: 604.685.5618 ext. 251
Email: kbrus at sierralegal.org 

If you are interested in making a donation to Sierra Legal, you can give
through
our secure online server
https://www.gifttool.com/donations/Donate?ID=159&VER=1&LNG=EN

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