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On December 15, 2006, the Fraser Valley Conservation Coalition submitted a response to
Jody Shimkus email: eaoinfo@gov.bc.ca
Project Assessment Director
They addressed concerns about the highway that included loss of agricultural land and negative impacts on air quality. About Burns Bog, they had the following comments:
"The FVCC supports without reservation its fellow "Gateway 25" member, the
Burns Bog Conservation Society, in the latter's stated (letter dated
December 12, 2006) concerns with respect to the potential impacts of SFPR on
Burns Bog and its sensitive resident wildlife populations.
Because of their unique migratory path, there has been a longstanding
question about whether the small population of sandhill cranes that return
to Burns Bog and Pitt Polder are each spring are a subspecies in urgent need
of protection. Given the dramatically small number (less than 20 birds) and
their known hypersensitivity to nesting disturbance and pollution, the
impact of these birds' Burns Bog home is of particular concern to FVCC.
The FVCC is additionally concerned that the SFPR represents a violation of
the conservation covenant placed on Burns Bog on March 24, 2004 by the
Government of Canada, Province of BC, Greater Vancouver Regional District
and Corporation of Delta."
Their full submission is available here.
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