Press Coverage

Articles in the press that are about Howe Sound.

Press Coverage

  • Fishing out the facts on marine life
    Re: Proposed sand-gravel site threatens fish, April 18 Thank you for the article on Burnco’s proposed gravel extraction operation at McNab Creek in Howe Sound. While it touches on the negative impact this would have on the sound, it missed the bigger pi
  • Proposed sand-gravel site threatens fish
    Environmentalists are raising concerns about the potential effects of a proposed sand and gravel mining operation in Howe Sound.
  • Gravel-mining project threatens recovering health of Howe Sound
    McNab Creek is considered a highquality salmon habitat with spawning channels for coho and chum. The area also supports chinook, pinks, rainbow trout, steelhead and other species.
  • Marine mammals coming back to the Salish Sea
    The shared inland waters of Juan de Fuca Strait, B.C.’s Strait of Georgia, and Washington state’s Puget Sound may once again approach its former greatness Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/oceans/Marine+mammals+coming+back+Salish/6456476/story.
  • McNab Creek gravel mine threatens all of Howe Sound
    Over the past 20 years, Howe Sound has been the subject of millions of dollars in reclamation projects to restore its health, paid for by industry and you, the taxpayer. Regrettably an Alberta-based company has proposed a large-scale gravel mining and cru
  • Critics fight Howe Sound gravel mine proposal
    Opponents of a proposed sand and gravel mine in Howe Sound are raising concerns the development will negatively impact the local environment.
  • Local Governments, Citizens Want More Scrutiny of Proposed Howe Sound Gravel Mine
    A local citizens’ group, The Future of Howe Sound Society, is also concerned the project has slid under the radar thus far and is urging the public to comment on the proposal by the end of the week, when the first public comment phase closes.
  • Watching the Sound: More Scrutiny Called for Gravel Mine
    Regional politicians in jurisdictions along Howe Sound are calling for a bigger role in the review of a major proposed gravel mine at McNab Creek. Several Sunshine Coast regional directors and councilors have recently stepped forward with concerns about t
  • Recovery of the Howe Sound Ecosystem
    A water treatment facility has cleaned up heavy metal pollution from the Brittania copper mine, and wrapping creosote-covered pilings with non-toxic landscape fabric has provided a healthy platform for herring eggs to survive. Pink salmon have even return
  • Coastal mine project moving forward
    Local governments feel they have been left out of the process to assess a proposal to build a sand and gravel mine at McNab Creek in West Howe Sound.