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

Sun Aug 11 13:42:50 EDT 2019

I appreciate your work on the water issue.

I also need to call you out on your language around Indigenous peoples.
Please be watchful of any language that denigrates Indigenous people.

Thank you,

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On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 9:55 AM Andre Piver <andrepiver at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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> > 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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