by alex morrison | Feb 28, 2021 | Advocacy, In the news, News Releases, Peachland, Watershed Watch
District of Peachland selects prominent local watershed advocate for Healthy Watershed Committee (Peachland, March 1, 2021): The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of PWPA co-founder and director, Taryn Skalbania, to...
by alex morrison | Nov 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Newsletter
At the Sept 29 Council meeting, representatives from Tolko, BC Timber Sales, Ntityix Resources and Gorman Bros, the companies that have licenses to log in our watershed made a presentation on their recent activities and on what they are planning to do over the next...
by alex morrison | Oct 5, 2020 | Advocacy, Events, In the news, Newsletter
PWPA Organizes Peachland’s Forest March for 2020 Friday September 18 was a province-wide day of action for watershed and forest defenders in British Columbia. The objective was to make our collective voices heard and to promote a new forest framework – a new way of...
by alex morrison | Jul 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Newsletter, Peachland
Why is Okanagan Lake flooding again and what we can do to prevent it? We branded our town “Peachland-on-the-Lake”, now we might be more accurately known as “Peachland-in-the-Lake”. If you live in the Okanagan, you have experienced three recent major flood events in...
by alex morrison | Jun 21, 2020 | Advocacy, Mines in the Watershed
The Peachland Water Protection Alliance has created a petition calling upon the Provincial Government to refuse to approve any and all mining exploration in our Watershed. Please join our petition on Change.org by clicking on the link below and forwarding this link to...
by alex morrison | Jun 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Mines in the Watershed
On June 6, 2020, PWPA sent the following letter to the Honorable Bruce Ralston, Minister of Energy, Mines & Petroleum, to express our opposition the mining exploration application by Flow Metals, and all other recent mining initiatives. Our letter details the...
