Find out where your Coquitlam mayoral candidates stand on . . . the environment

By Jeremy Shepherd ● Coquitlam ● October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022

photo supplied Michelle Clayton, Tri-City Photography Club

Given ongoing concerns about tree preservation and keeping spills out of streams, we asked mayoral candidates for their thoughts on environmental stewardship in the city.

Is the city doing enough to protect trees and waterways?

Adel Gamar

No. The current regulations imposed on developers at construction sites are neither strict enough nor effectively enforced. Construction runoff, sediment and other pollutants are damaging sensitive streams in these areas. It is the responsibility of the city to ensure that all development projects are bound by strict regulations that ensure the protection of our trees and waterways.

Richard Stewart (incumbent)

We continue to increase investments in tree protection and tree planting (City is planting 10,000 trees in 2022), establishing new parks, and supporting urban forest. Continue working with Metro for improvements to outdated regional pipes, to prevent harm to streams. Adding real-time flow sensors/monitors, etc.

Author

Jeremy Shepherd

A chiropractor and a folk singer, after having one great kid, decided to push their luck and have one more, a boy they named Jeremy Shepherd.

Shepherd grew up around Blue Mountain Park in Coquitlam, following a basketball around and trying his best to get to the NBA (it didn’t work out, at least not yet).

With no career plans after graduating Porter Elementary school, Jeremy Shepherd pursued higher education at Como Lake Middle School and eventually, Centennial High School.

Approximately 1,000 movies and several beers later in life, Shepherd made a change.

Having done nothing worth writing, he decided to see if he could write something worth reading.

Since graduating journalism school at Langara College, Shepherd has been a reporter, editor and, reluctantly, a content provider for community newspapers around Metro Vancouver for more than 10 years.

He worked with dogged reporters, eloquently indignant curmudgeons and creative photographers, all of whom shared a little of what they knew.

Now, as he goes about the business of raising two fascinating humans alongside a wonderful partner, Shepherd is delighted to report news and tell stories in the Tri-Cities.

He runs, reads, and is intrigued by art, science, smart cities and new ideas. He is pleased to meet you.

Is the city doing enough to protect trees and waterways?

Author

Jeremy Shepherd

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