Pine Creek Delta Atlin BC

 I  say a  loud and clear NO to the plans to sell power to Whitehorse!

I do not want to go in detail here about why to protect the Pine Creek Delta from such onslaught. But i  write this to ask you and find out; how do we succesfully protest?

Here in my little neighbourhood of mendenhall subdivision, i did lead two protests over my 25 years i lived here.  One was succesful one was not.

I actually do not know why one was not succesful and the other one was. Maybe when written down it becomes clear, or maybe you say well that is obvious.

So these are the two stories. One was for a water treatment plant, that i did not want. It is here now, a very expensive contraption which takes a lot of maintainance.

The other was for mosquito control. Our mosquitoes will be alive for many years to come, due to my protest.

hmmm with the treatment plant, we were well informed by the government, they even send us a radiation specialist who worked for a nuclair power company to show us that all was well in the world to have uranium stored in our community. (which was a consequence o the plan)

I and a 2 other neighbours  said, ho ho ho we do not want an uranium storage. I wrote a list of all the cons that i saw to do with this project. and i emailed it to all the neighbours...nobody seemed to care. Just us 3.I wrote down possibilities to meet everyones needs for healthy clean  water. 

The 4 million dollar plant did come (for some 100 people, people who choose to live here, mainly white middle class people that buy property here, like myself). 

The mosquito control program, suddenly we got  an email that it was to be executed here. I stood up in the AGM and asked; how can that be? we were never asked. Well it had not been done yet so go ahead and find out if the community actually wants it. I wrote an email to all the neighbours, asking who wanted to sign my petition against mosquito control.

In no time i had 20 signatures. which was 10 more then the people having asked for the control, which was enough to show the government that the community was divided on the issue.

So is the difference i see here now is that i actually never tried to change peoples minds in the mosquito case, i just asked what they wanted?

Is it that easy?

Looking forward to mosquitoes :) always!

And my husband and i drink water from Stony Creek, the best water in the world!