The Vancouver Island Water Watch Coalition will be hosting a two day
public Forum on Saturday, May 29th and Sunday, May 30th. The entire
event is FREE for all attendees. Our registration e-mail and phone
number for this forum is at the bottom of this article. Please advise
which days you are going to attend when you register.
Saturday,May 29th -9:00 a.m. - Bowen
Park will see bus tours leaving for the City of Nanaimo Water
facilities and a bus tour into a watershed. Each tour will operate twice
so all attendees will be able to go to both. It is estimated that the
City tour will take 2 hours and the watershed tour will take three
hours. Lunch will be provided following each tour.
Sunday, May 30th - Beban Park Our day will begin at
9:00 a.m. We have amazing speakers;
Maude Barlow, Rafe Mair, Corky
Evans and Arthur Caldicott. The day will also include four workshops by
four great "teachers". Andrew Gage - Environmental lawyer with West
Coast Environmental law - "Legal options for Source Protection"; Ingmar
Lee- Community Activist - "The Industrial Logging of Nanaimo's
Drinking Watershed"; Trevor Wicks - "Looking at the Source: A Well
protected Drinking Water Supply"; Robin Mathews - "Privatization: Local,
National, and International Theft". The intent is to enable all
attendees to get to all workshops by keeping the workshops limited in
time.
Registration
will need to occur to enable us to hire buses for the "Water" tours as
well as to adequately prepare for the meals. Our registration e-mail is:
Speakers, including Maude Barlow, Rafe Mair, 
