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Q: How many years have you lived in Squamish?
A: 20 + 16 = 36 years total (w. Vancouver interlude)

Q: Which neighbourhood do you live in?
A: Hospital Hill

Learn more: Squamish Chief's Q&A

Proposed industrial projects

The next elected council will have decision-making authority over several aspects of proposed industrial projects. All of these projects will have social, environmental, and climate impacts. What is your position on:

FortisBC pipeline: supportive

Why: No comment provided.

FortisBC workcamp: opposed

Why: I do not support the currently proposed vehicle access route to the proposed workcamp site. Alternative siting or access should be encouraged.

Woodfibre LNG: supportive

Why: I support natural gas as a 'bridging fuel, and I support WLNG's ongoing efforts to protect (and enhance, through extensive site remediation investments) the local marine environment.

Woodfibre LNG's "floatel": supportive

Why: 'Floatel' option minimizes potential impact on local housing supply, community amenities and social impact risks.

Proposed development projects

The next elected council will determine whether these development projects proceed or not. All of these projects will have social, environmental, and climate impacts. What is your position on:

Cheema Lands: supportive

Why: We have too many competing uses of scarce valley bottom lands, including more valuable habitat than exists on eastern benchlands; and we must learn to build housing on upper slopes responsibly.

Garibaldi at Squamish: opposed

Why: Scale of proposed development is a big concern.

North Crumpit: supportive

Why: We have too many competing uses of scarce valley bottom lands, including more valuable habitat than exists on eastern benchlands; and we must learn to build housing on upper slopes responsibly.

Climate Action commitments = 14/16

• Invest in active transportation networks to make biking and walking safer and more accessible?
• Support higher density infill development along existing and proposed transit networks to promote walkable and livable communities?
• Advocate for regional public transit and invest in local public transit?
• Implement policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in buildings, for example, incentivize fuel switching from gas furnaces to electric heat pumps through rebates for homeowners?
• Advocate for the Provincial Government to enable local governments to ban new gas hookups in buildings?
• Support Neighbourhood Planning to collaborate with citizens, not developers, in the future development of their neighbourhood?
• Make land use decisions that protect and restore natural areas, ensure habitat connectivity, and avoid urban sprawl?
• Protect natural assets (forests, wetlands, shrublands, grasslands, estuary, aquifers, ponds, lakes, creeks, and rivers) identified in the 2022 Natural Asset Management Strategy, which provide ecosystem services valued at more than $1.6 billion?
• Support efforts to implement a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and use this to inform development guidelines and neighbourhood planning?
• Increase local food security by supporting local agriculture and community gardens?
• Implement zero waste bylaws to divert organic waste from the landfill and support the development of a circular economy as part of a zero waste strategy?
• Review the deconstruction bylaw to ensure it is meeting its goal to eliminate waste from renovation and demolition projects?
• Support further study on local distributed energy systems powered by 100% renewable energy to build community resilience over time?
• Adopt the Doughnut Economic Model as a guiding principle for all District initiatives and planning? (see Nanaimo example)
• Endorse the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty?
• Join the campaign to Sue Big Oil and set aside $1 per person to file a class-action lawsuit to recover a fair share of our climate costs?

Transparency and Accountability

Q: Are there any particular issues where you would have to declare a perceived conflict of interest or recuse yourself from Council discussion on an issue? Please list:
A: Membership in Curling Club (which, with Golf Club, leases land and receives Permissive Tax Exemption from District)

List of current donors

Eric Andersen
Perry & Nadine Beckham

List of past donors in 2018

Data accessed via ElectionsBC:

$360 from Eric Andersen
$250 from John Lowe
$150 from Peter Dickson
$100 from Stirling Angus

List of past donors in 2014

Data accessed via ElectionsBC:

$100 from BC Timberframe Co Ltd (Kelvin Moody and Allen Jones)
$100 from Norman Barr
$150 from NRB Holdings Ltd (Norman Barr and Scott Barr)
$100 from Peter Dickson
$250 from Seven JS Development Ltd (John Lowe and Jim Fraser)
$250 from Squamish Mills Ltd (John Lowe and Jeff Drenka)
$150 from Squamish Wood Waste Ltd (Allan Barr)
$100 from Stirling Angus
$1,816 from Sven Eric Andersen
$150 from West-Barr Contracting Ltd (Allan Barr)
$324.98 from anonymous contributors (donations less than $100)