When the Capital Regional District proclaims its parks are worth a visit, one has to wonder if watching logging, excavation and road-building are what they had in mind. Because that is what the CRD is planning for its largest park on North Pender Island.
Lively Peak Park, an ecological reserve, is slated to be logged and extensively excavated for a road through the steepest part of the park.
Using public tax dollars to destroy publicly owned ecological reserves and parks is immoral, if not illegal. The CRD with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, behind closed doors, amended the covenant on Lively Peak Park that requires the CRD to keep the land in its natural state. The CRD has held no public consultation, no environmental assessment and no archeological assessment, and made no public disclosure of its plans.
The CRD board members must be very proud of their intention to destroy this unique natural sanctuary called Lively Peak Park.
Gary Steeves
Pender Island
