Resources on Water Issues

Whistler Watch staff have assembled these useful links as additional resources for you.

Council of Canadians
Canada's largest citizen advocacy group and leaders on water privatization research.
TILMA (B.C.-AB Trade Agreement)
Campaign for Open Government

The Campaign for Open Government is a coalition that spans the spectrum of issues, politics, and ideology, reflecting that Freedom of Information and an open government are essential for all issues and to all citizens in B.C.

IPPS/Run of the River Projects
BC Hydrofacts
A local site that discusses B.C's run of the river projects and IPPs (independent power projects). Watch movies and interviews with various community stakeholders.
Run of River & IPPS

To educate the people of BC-owners of the finest, greenest, most profitable public electricity system in the world-to save our rivers and our renewable energy assets.

Independent Media
Working TV

working TV is a labour television program broadcast weekly on community access television in B.C., Canada.

Whistler Wastewater Treatment Plant
CUPE Analysis of Whistler's P3
CUPE Local 2010 presented the attached submission to Whistler Council on January 9th, 2006.
Dayton & Knight Summary for Wastewater Plant
Summary & Conclusion of Dayton & Knight Consulting Engineers' Ltd. Final Draft of Recommendations for Whistler Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Project
Flogging our Water
Why British Columbians should be concerned about the blatant giveaway of B.C.’s water resource and increasing privatization of electricity generation.
P3 Articles
P3 All Over Me
Article published in the Pique Newsmagazine about the possible privatization of Whistler's Wastewater Treatment Plant. Written by VC Powel.
The (Real) Bottom Line:Public-Private Partnerships
Download the P3 report prepared by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
Partnerships BC: More is Less
Should the B.C. government be run like Enron or WorldCom? Author Murray Dobbin explores the world of Partnerships BC.
Sewer partnerships: A troubled history
Published by the Times Colonist (Victoria), on May 12, 2006
Written by Richard Bocking
Richard Bocking has written extensively on water resource issues, including two books, "Canada's Water: For Sale? and Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser". He has produced several films on water resource issues for the CBC.
SPP (Security & Prosperity Partnership)
SPP Agreement
In March 2005, Paul Martin, George W. Bush and Vicente Fox met in Waco, Texas to ratify the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP takes NAFTA's goal of continental economic integration much further by including security and foreign policy issues, and by speeding up the process of regulatory harmonization integral to the first Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Governments are moving quickly toward a continental resource pact, North American security perimeter, and common agricultural and other polices related to our health and environment.
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Sustainable Community Development

Examples of development that is both socially and environmentally responsible.