The South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR), one of many Gateway projects, is a billion dollar freeway running along the south side of the Fraser River from Deltaport Way in Southwest Delta to Highway 1 in Surrey. Click here to view a map of the route.
This freeway will run along the edges of Burns Bog, disrupting the natural hydrology and hydrochemistry, and destroying and fragmenting wildlife and their habitat.
To read about the better alternative plan that was put forward and subsequently dismissed, visit the website by Greg Hoover at www.thereisanotherway.com
Here’s what you can do to help:
1. Make your voice heard – click here for a list of local politicians, and here for a sample letter or better still write your own.
2. Support the Burns Bog Conservation Society – give today so we can fight on your behalf. We have taken the federal government of Canada to court on the grounds that they have broken the Conservation Covenant which states that no harm should come to the protected areas of Burns Bog.
3. Sign the online petition to stop the Road from destroying the Bog
History of the Legal Battle Over the SFPR
- Update, July 19, 2011 News article regarding the heritage and archaeological issues in the construction of the SFPR.
- Read on below for the history of our fight to stop the SFPR from destroying Burns Bog as we know and love it.
- Update, May 31, 2011 Jay Straith, Lawyer for Burns Bog Conservation Society in the their lawsuit against the South Fraser Perimeter Road is now also representing Bertha Williams of the Tsawwassen Band, Coast Salish Nation and William Burnstick, of the Cree Sioux First nations, who are suing the B.C. Government to stop construction of the South Fraser Perimeter Road through sacred burial sites and B.C.’s oldest and most important archaeological site find to date.
- Update, May 16, 2011 – The Defendants have until August 29, 2011 to serve their final affidavit of documents. View the Court Order which outlines the timeline.
- Update, Jan 5, 2011 – View the Statement of Claim filed November 24, 2010. Read our position paper.
- Update, Nov 24, 2010 – Read Lawsuit launched over road construction on Burns Bog.
Other Resources
Audio: Damien Talks Delta Foreign Trade Zone on SFU Radio and what it has to do with the South Fraser Perimeter Road.
Damien Gillis and CJSF’s Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson discuss the master plan to industrialize Delta – home to vital salmon, orca and bird habitat, and the best farmland in the country. Damien connects the dots between a proposed foreign trade zone built around a vastly expanded Deltaport in Tsawwassen, and the roles of the Tsawwassen First Nation Treaty, the BC Rail Sale, and the South Fraser Perimeter Road in this bigger plan – which stretches back as far as the 1960s. (20 min)
Listen to audio clip:http://thecanadian.org/k2/item/848-cjsf-3-damien-gillis
Aerial tour of the destruction being caused by the South Fraser Perimeter Road.
Aerial photos of Burns Bog before construction of the South Fraser Perimeter Road and during construction.