03.02.2025, 16:14

End date changed to align with current known info on final date for comments
More info added to tell people what they can do to support the campaign
Facebook page link added
Collection target amended
Added information about industrial noise, work on Saturdays, and rezoning of residential land during a housing crisis
Added information about donations to Open Petition.
Increased the collection target to 500.
Amended a typo under Reason section.
Added information relating to ownership of Hope Ready Mix
Added further information related to signing the petition.


New petition description:

We are aiming to influence provincial decision-makers to turn down the application by Hope Ready Mix (a Chiliwack-based company) for an expansion of the Cemetery Gravel Pit. The expansion more than triples the current size of the pit, poses a health and safety risk to residents and road users, and destroys the natural beauty of Hope, a place where tourism is our number 1 industry.

Please sign our petition.petition, and also any member in your household can sign individually. Important:

1. Your home address will NOT be displayed publicly but is required2. Your email address will NOT be passed to third parties3. Once you have signed the petition, you will receive an email requiring you to click and confirm your signature4. IMPORTANT NOTE - a donation section will appear after you have signed, and at the bottom of the webpage, but please feel free to disregard this, as it is unrelated to our petition and donations do not come back to the cemetery pit cause. Any donations go to the petition hosting organization, Open Petition, which supplies free hosting of petitions and support to petition-makers.

Supporters can help by voicing their opposition (and please feel free to use any information outlined in this petition) to this permit application, to the Ministry of Mining & Critical Minerals (cc. Hope Ready Mix, Hope Council, and the MLA).

The permit application paperwork can be downloaded hereFollow our Facebook page hereEmail addresses:

Ministry of Mining:SouthwestMinesDivision@gov.bc.caAmy.Davey@gov.bc.ca

Hope Ready Mix: customercare@hopereadymix.ca

Hope Councillors:smedlock@hope.cadsmith@hope.cahstewin@hope.cavsmith@hope.caaskoglund@hope.cazwells@hope.cadsmith@hope.capnewbigging@hope.ca

The Ministry of Mining & Critical Minerals has decision-making responsibility over this issue, and Hope Council does not have any direct authority. However, we are asking supporters to keep Hope Council informed about their concerns. We know that the success of campaigns to stop gravel pit applications elsewhere in BC was helped by local councils supporting residents and representing their concerns to higher levels of government. We are asking Hope's Mayor and Councillors to support this petition and proactively amplify the concerns of Hope residents as outlined below, to those responsible for the decisions.

MLA: Tony.Luck.MLA@leg.bc.ca