The earth is comprised of approximately 75% water. At birth we are composed of 77% water and as adults we average about 65% water. After oxygen, clean pure water is the single most critical element to sustain life, whether it be human life, animal life or plant life.
I ask you to please carefully review the proposal by Texada Corporation to log the approximately 296 acres of forested land around Maxwell Lake and Rippon Creek. It is critically important that we citizens of Salt Spring Island take both the time and the responsibility to ensure that the main water supply for a large number of our citizens remains free flowing and uncontaminated.
We are unanimous in wanting
sustainable, ecological logging to remain as a prime industry in British Columbia and here on Salt Spring Island. We as a community, working with North Salt Spring Waterworks District, should do everything possible to purchase this tract of land and leave it as forest in perpetuity to maintain the quality of water necessary for our present and future generations.