[BCFSN] the People's Coalition to Survive the Climate Food Emergency --- join us at WFWI

[Andre Piver]

Even more absurd is a 4.5 year and counting, wait for an application for a license to accumulate water limited to during the rainy season only, thus reducing the need to tax a creek during low flow season competing with neighbours and wildlife…..the application has not even yet been assigned to a water stewardship “officer”…..commercial licenses displace small holder/farm applications over and over and there is insufficient staff with their requirement to tick boxes not including this type of obvious approach to climate change adaptation ….there are many chiefs and few poor “indians” left in our crazy top-down silos of "appearance of “ governance.

The extinction revolution needs to include our centralized governance processes…..back to small, local and what comes around goes around ….developmental environment required.


andre


Andre C. Piver MD
6774 Harrop Procter Rd.
Nelson, B.C., V1L 6R2
Canada , tel 250.229 4665






> On Aug 11, 2019, at 9:23 AM, JEN FISHER-BRADLEY <humandignity at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> That's messed up, join our movement, threaten them back, with tax revolt and non repayment of loans. 
> 
> They have to shift direction, the people have to make them do it. 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan at EcoReality.org>
> To: food at bcfsn.org
> Sent: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:35:01 -0600 (MDT)
> Subject: Re: [BCFSN] the People's Coalition to Survive the Climate Food Emergency --- join us at WFWI
> 
>> From: JEN FISHER-BRADLEY <humandignity at shaw.ca>
>> 
>> 4. … Create a program to pay: the water bills for urban farms, retrofits for rainwater and grey water capture, and water storage and irrigation, concentrating on areas with seasonal dryness. 
> 
> In fact, just the opposite seems to be occurring.
> 
> We have water licenses on two streams, and the rate we pay on these licenses has doubled in the past five years. And now, they want us to voluntarily register our well, with the stated intention that it may be necessary to charge people in the future for groundwater they draw. (With a threat like that, of course we did not register!) And the latest threat is to charge us "maintenance" on our water impoundment.
> 
> I'm not looking for any sort of a hand-out; I just want the government to leave me the hell alone so I can focus on growing food, rather than jumping through bureaucratic hoops.
> 
> Jan
> 
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