Please sign and phone Minister Josie Osborne 778-405-3094 because Trans Mountain (TMX) has begun destroying an important wetland near Bridal falls B.C. The wetland is home to threatened salamanders, owls, oregon forest snails as well as hundreds of birds and rare plant species.  Three streams will also be affected, one of which has spawning salmon.  This wetland is one of the last remaining wetlands in the path of the new pipeline.  

The BC government issued a permit to allow Trans Mountain to salvage the salamanders before construction starts in the wetland.  Salamander salvages have high mortality rates therefore BC should not have issued the permit.  The pipeline company will also attempt to salvage snails from the area.

It is important to convince Provincial Minister Osborne to cancel the salamander salvage permit to make Trans Mountain go around the wetland or tunnel under the wetland; leaving the wetland, the birds and amphibians and the streams intact.  The Company has rerouted its pipeline around and under other significant spots elsewhere however it wants to avoid the extra cost of doing for this wetland near Bridal Veil Falls.

Please email Minister Osborne at LWRS.Minister@gov.bc.ca or phone 1 778-405-3094 or fax to 250-387-4312.  We have emailed her office and phoned her and gotten no action.  More people need to join the campaign. Please take action. Please phone her, but be polite.

Please also phone Minister Freeland 416-928-1451 because she controls TMX and Minister Wilkinson 604 775 6333 because he controls CER which could intervene. The Friends of the Wetland asked CER to order TMX to go under or around the wetland but CER refused the request.     

This link has a photo of the threatened salamander: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal/dicamptodon-tenebrosus/

Protect the Planet is one of the groups trying to save this wetland. For more information, follow Protect the Planet on twitter @PPSTMX1 or go to:

http://stoptmx.ca

Owl Photo by Mark Broadhurst