Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Regional Director Noba Anderson unveiled some new information about TELUS's proposed Cortes Island cell phone tower in a report she gave the SRD Board on Wednesday March 16th, 2022. Anderson reported on her own communications the Tla’amin Nation and mentions CityWest also reaching out to that nation.TELUS appears to have aborted the proposed tower projects in Squirrel Cove and is instead putting micro cells on telephone poles. However the telecommunication’s giant may still approach the SRD about a tower in Gorge Harbour. Only two of the more than 140 corespondents she is aware of were in favour of cell towers, which may speak more to the lack of a public forum for this project than the number of people actually opposed to cell towers. Cortes Currents was hoping to delay the broadcast of this story until the SRD released the audio of that board meeting, but this has not occurred in time for today’s deadline and the next deadline for radio is Monday.