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Province Rejects Private Wilderness Camp in East Sooke Regional Park
The province said the proposal conflicted with park conservation goals and drew more than 11,000 public responses, most of them opposed.
- On August 19, the province denied three Crown land applications from One With Nature Corp, deeming the proposal "incompatible with the existing conservation, recreation and stewardship objectives of the area."
- Peter Warburton of the Senior Licensed Authorizations Office signed the decision after finding the applicant failed to mitigate significant land use conflicts, environmental concerns, and impacts to Aboriginal and Treaty rights raised by First Nations.
- Public engagement generated more than 11,000 responses to the provincial call for input, with the licensing office receiving 3,255 submissions—3,216 opposed—and a petition gathering more than 8,700 signatures.
- The Capital Regional District welcomed the determination, noting the proposal threatened East Sooke Regional Park, which receives nearly 250,000 visits annually and features trails the project would have intersected.
- Approval would have violated provincial land stewardship and reconciliation objectives, effectively ending the company's bid to secure tenure terms of up to 30 years for land- and marine-based programming on Crown land.
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Province rejects private wilderness camp in East Sooke Regional Park
The province has rejected a leasing application by a private wilderness survival school operator to set up camp within East Sooke Regional Park. Vitaliy Svetlichnyy, owner of One With Nature outdoor survival school, had applied two years ago to lease a 71-hectare parcel of Crown land insid...
·Kelowna, Canada
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Leaning Left10Leaning Right0Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution83% Left
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- 83% of the sources lean Left
83% Left
L 83%
C 17%
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