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Rivers at Risk Tour

Written by: Local Groups

(Article posted in: Community Initiatives )

Featuring Rafe Mair, Spokesperson, Save Our Rivers Society
Learn about the push to privatize our rivers and public energy system in the WestKootenays and BC.

Also featuring:

  • New mini documentary Rivers At Risk: Glacier & Howser Creeks and discussion with filmmaker, Damien Gillis.
  • Local rivers under threat and the proposed Glacier/Howser project discussion with Lee-Ann Unger, West Kootenay EcoSociety or Gary Diers, Purcell Alliance For Wilderness

Upcoming Events:Nelson
Sunday, November 30 @ 7:00pm
Nelson United Church
(602 Silica St.)

Nakusp
Tuesday, December 2 7:00pm
Bonnington Arts Centre, Nakusp Elementary School (4th St @ 6th Ave NW)

Meadow Creek
Wednesday, December 3 7:00pm
Lardeau Valley Hall

Kaslo
Thursday, December 4 7:00pm
Langham Theatre (447 A Ave)

Rossland
Friday, December 5 7:00pm
Rossland Miner’s Hall (1765 Columbia Ave)

For more information visit www.saveourrivers.ca or www.ecosociety.ca

This event is sponsored by Save Our Rivers Society, West Kootenay EcoSociety, Purcell Alliance For Wilderness, Arrow Lakes Environmental Stewardship Society, Public Power Now, Endangered Creek Expedition.

About Rafe Mair

Rafe Mair, Official Spokesperson for Save Our Rivers Society, is a former Socred BC Environment Minister and hall of
fame broadcaster, who writes today for popular online journal, the Tyee.  Mair built his reputation as an eloquent, fiery,
highly entertaining broadcaster who tells it like it is, during his 19-year run at CKNW.  Often the highest-rated radio show host in Canada, Mair was rewarded with every major broadcasting accolade in the country, including the Bruce Hutchinson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jack Webster Foundation.
In recent years, Mair has been an outspoken advocate for saving BC’s wild salmon from fish farms, and now for protecting BC’s watersheds and public power system - a legacy of Socred Premier WAC Bennett - from the Campbell Liberals’ private river power agenda.  Mair has called the battle to save our rivers, “the greatest challenge British Columbians have faced,” and the defining battle of a long career speaking out for the environment and people of BC.

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