Eric Andersen
Council · Squamish
- Neighbourhood:
- Mamquam
- Years in the community:
- 40
Policy commitments
Buildings
We all want healthy, affordable, and comfortable homes. These policies will help to lower energy bills, cut pollution, and improve indoor air quality.
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Support electrification of new buildings.
Neutral
✓
Incentivize electric heat pumps and air filtration systems.
Supportive
✓
Incentivize renewable energy, battery storage, and smart-grid technologies in new and existing buildings to improve energy security.
Supportive
✓
Scale up energy retrofits for existing homes, businesses, and public buildings.
Supportive
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Implement a 'right to cool' bylaw to protect tenants during extreme heat events.
Neutral
Climate Justice
Our community is already experiencing the harmful impacts of climate change caused by fossil fuel pollution, and taxpayers are on the hook to upgrade and repair critical infrastructure.
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Endorse the fossil fuel treaty and commit to phase out fossil fuels.
Neutral
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Enact a moratorium on AI data centres to protect our energy and water resources.
Neutral
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Pursue available legal options to recover a fair share of the climate costs facing our community from fossil fuel companies and other big polluters.
Opposed
Ecosystems
The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat all rely on healthy ecosystems. Nature can also help protect our community from extreme weather by controlling floods, protecting shorelines, and cooling neighbourhoods. Access to nature improves the health and well-being of residents, and supports biodiversity.
✓
Protect and restore ecosystems, which are essential to human survival, health, and economic well-being.
Supportive
✓
Expand and protect tree canopy, parks, and green infrastructure to cool neighbourhoods, clean air, and manage stormwater.
Supportive
✓
Prioritize native tree planting in all areas, especially those with low tree cover, higher population densities, and more vulnerable residents.
Supportive
✓
Create connected urban greenways for people and wildlife.
Supportive
Land Use
We envision vibrant, walkable communities that protect nature and improve food security.
✓
Build affordable homes near jobs, schools, shops, and transit.
Supportive
✓
Upgrade critical infrastructure for heat, fire, flood, and storm resilience.
Supportive
✓
Increase food security by supporting local agriculture and community gardens.
Supportive
Transport
Connecting neighbourhoods through public transit and active transportation networks will cut pollution, improve public health, and make our communities more affordable (and fun!).
✓
Deliver reliable, frequent, affordable local transit.
Supportive
✓
Advocate to improve regional public transit between communities.
Supportive
✓
Build bike and roll networks that are safe for everyone.
Supportive
✓
Expand EV charging infrastructure.
Supportive
Watersheds
Climate change, increasing populations, and overconsumption threaten our water security. Healthy watersheds and forests are critical to support clean drinking water, stormwater management, climate resilience, and biodiversity for future generations.
✓
Implement water conservation plans and educate the public to conserve drinking water.
Supportive
✓
Protect and restore watersheds as vital municipal infrastructure.
Supportive
✓
Develop and implement a water security plan.
Supportive
Zero Waste
Zero waste policies reduce pollution, keep waste out of landfills, build resilient local economies, and safeguard public health by shifting society away from a disposable culture toward a sustainable circular economy.
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Implement zero waste bylaws to divert organic waste and recyclables from disposal.
Supportive
✓
Support the development of a circular economy to eliminate waste and improve resilience.
Supportive
✓
Implement bylaws to eliminate waste from new buildings, renovation, and demolition projects and to use existing buildings as efficiently as possible.
Supportive
✓ Supportive
~ Neutral
× Opposed
– No response
Climate action
How have you contributed to climate action in your community through advocacy, past work, advisory committees, volunteer work, and/or reducing your personal carbon footprint?
I am co-founder, Squamish Climate Action Network and former Chair of its Energy & Green Building Group. I have produced a plan for a Biomass Innovation Park for Squamish, as an Eco-Industrial Park. I was a steering committee member, representing Squamish District Council, during the assembly of a Community Climate Action Plan. I am a regular (annually or bi-annually) host/ presenter to visiting BCIT, UBC and BCIT (and sometimes SFU and Capilano University) classes to Squamish regarding local community forestry, urban forest management and climate action initiatives. I organized the first Passive House building standards workshop and field tour in Squamish, in 2008. I am a longstanding advocate for the use of wood products in building. I am currently a steering committee member (with colleagues in Prince George and Lillooet) for the BC Rail Corridor Alliance, seeking to protect, restore and revitalize passenger rail and freight service in the corridor between North Vancouver and Prince George.
Questions for Squamish
Municipal tax rates are determined by council every year to meet community needs. What do you think the Major Industry tax rate should be set at to ensure Woodfibre LNG contributes its fair share of taxes if the project is assessed at $600 million?
Did not respond.
What steps will you take to advocate for the health and safety of Squamish residents in response to excessive and harmful air pollution from Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC’s compressor station?
Did not respond.
What is your position on the proposed Garibaldi at Squamish, Cheema Lands, and North Crumpit developments?
Did not respond.
Squamish is vulnerable to many climate-related risks (e.g., extreme storms, flooding, sea level rise, wildfire, wildfire smoke, and extreme heat events). How will you address these risks to increase our community’s resilience?
The District of Squamish management plan initiatives to address sea level rise and flood hazards set standards for the Province -- are leading edge, award-winning achievements. I am a longstanding proponent of active forest management, especially in our urban interface zones, and advocate of biomass utilization solutions so that more wildfire risk interface areas can be treated with reduced costs. As a longtime director of the Sea to Sky Clean Air Society responsible for the regional Air Quality Management Plan, I lobbied for more attention to and funding for urban interface wildfire resiliency forest treatment programs.
How will you continue to collaborate with Indigenous peoples as partners in the stewardship of the land, air, and water, and work towards reconciliation?
I was engaged in consulting work in introducing small scale forestry methods and programs to First Nations around British Columbia between 1989 and 1997 and organized two overseas tours for BC First Nations representatives, visiting diverse renewable energy (wind, bioenergy) and small scale forestry programs and projects in Scandinavia. I have worked with Sea to Region First Nation forestry business arms over many years, including in the development of a Biomass Innovation Park for Squamish. I have been recognized for my longstanding engagement with the Squamish Nation community in diverse cultural and environmental management projects by being granted a name, ESCHEẀÁT SḴEWḴ’, in 2017.
Campaign contributions
Public records from Elections BC — 21 contributions totalling $5,716.00.
2022 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS
4 contributions · $1,690.00
| Contributor | Date | Amount | Office | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSEN SVEN ERIC | Sep 22, 2022 | $1,000.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| BECKHAM PERRY & NADINE | Oct 7, 2022 | $250.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| DICKSON PETER | Oct 7, 2022 | $140.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| HUBER WALTER | Oct 14, 2022 | $300.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
2018 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS
5 contributions · $860.00
| Contributor | Date | Amount | Office | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERIC ANDERSEN | Oct 15, 2018 | $260.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| ERIC ANDERSEN | Sep 17, 2018 | $100.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| STIRLING ANGUS | Sep 24, 2018 | $100.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| PETER DICKSON | Oct 15, 2018 | $150.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| A JOHN LOWE | Oct 6, 2018 | $250.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS
12 contributions · $3,166.00
| Contributor | Date | Amount | Office | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVEN ERIC ANDERSEN | Nov 10, 2014 | $800.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| SVEN ERIC ANDERSEN | Nov 19, 2014 | $600.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| SVEN ERIC ANDERSEN | Nov 24, 2014 | $416.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| STIRLING ANGUS | Oct 24, 2014 | $100.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| NORMAN BARR | Oct 24, 2014 | $100.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| PETER DICKSON | Oct 24, 2014 | $100.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| SEVEN JS DEVELOPMENT LTD | Oct 24, 2014 | $250.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| SQUAMISH MILLS LTD | Oct 24, 2014 | $250.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| NRB HOLDINGS LTD | Oct 24, 2014 | $150.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| SQUAMISH WOOD WASTE LTD | Oct 24, 2014 | $150.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| WEST-BARR CONTRACTING LTD | Oct 24, 2014 | $150.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
| BC TIMBERFRAME CO LTD | Oct 10, 2014 | $100.00 | COUNCILLOR | SQUAMISH |
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