FOSBA January 2025 bulletin
Dear friends,
It’s a new year and our treasured Bluffs are still intact with no immediate threats on the horizon. Please join me as I raise my glass of orange juice to the morning sun in celebration!
This is Wednesday and in just six days (Feb. 3rd., 2025) we will host our AGM at the library in Brooks school at 7:00 pm. For those of you who (like me) are confused by acronyms AGM stands for Annual General Meeting and if you come to this meeting you will meet many folks you likely didn’t know but with whom you share something very precious, a deep desire to have our precious StillwaterBluffs saved in all its beauty and uniqueness for the many generations to come.
At this meeting you will have the opportunity to exercise your democratic right to vote for a board of individuals whom you consider best suited to represent your wishes. You will hear the incumbent members attempting to sway your vote by recounting promises made in the last AGM followed by flowery descriptions ofthose items they managed to accomplish. Also of course you will hear various pitiful excuses for things left unaccomplished. The incumbents will also go on about their intentions for the next year in the hopes of securing your vote. After listening to these fine speeches you will have your turn to grill them unmercifully. Finally, there will be the vote and quite possibly there will be outsiders running against the incumbents which could lead to much drama! The whole event may be remembered as a fine moment in democracy and you will be so happy you didn’t stay home to watch Trump’s latest.
In all seriousness though we need new energy for our board. For instance, we need help with tabling as with more people sharing the load we could table at more events.
By tabling more events we can grow our numbers and the more numbers we have the more power we have. Mosaic Forest Products may be a huge forest company whose reason for existing is to turn forests and land into lucre for their shareholders. ]
However, we know that those shareholders are public sector unions and social license is of significant importance. Examples of this are:
a) their efforts to dialogue with and involve first nations people in extracting timber from their territorial lands, https://www.mosaicforests.com/news-views/mosaic-takes-progressive-aboriginal-relations-certification-to-the-next-level-1 and
b) The Big Coast Forest Climate Initiative which is Mosaic’s carbon sink program for Vancouver Island. Unfortunately, under scientific scrutiny it has been shown to be a complete failure. If you open this link go to overview and scroll down to the video, https://mercury.renoster.co/projects/VCS3018/final-score and become enlightened.
Our optimistic strategy is to build our numbers and build our power so that any attempt to log or develop the Stillwater Bluffs will result in chaos in the Mosaic boardroom. At some point hopefully we will be able to negotiate with a willing seller. From the company’s perspective, how better to gain social license and public appreciation than by helping establish a public park through selling the land at a reasonable price. Our Stillwater Bluffs comprise a miniscule part of their holdings, some .008%.
We are experiencing a good trajectory with our membership numbers, and we must keep it going. Tabling is fun. You get to socialize with so many friends.
See you next Monday.
Lauritz
Pres. (incumbent)
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