Environmental issues
May 11, 2010
OTTAWA— Ecojustice and Sierra Club Canada will tell the House of Commons Finance Committee today to remove sections from the budget bill (C-9) that gutenvironmental assessment law. Again this year, the federal government is hiding changes to Canada’s environmental protection laws in the budget to avoid public scrutiny.
Federal politicians from the government and opposition benches have mysteriously cancelled an 18-month investigation into oilsands pollution in water and opted to destroy draft copies of their final report, Canwest News Service has learned.
The proposed project at Fanny Bay just north of Qualicum on Vancouver Island will cover 3,000 acres, but the enviromental damage could be large.
Compliance Energy Corporation is a coal exploration and development company with an interest in over 75,000 acres of coal and mineral rights on Vancouver Island BC -- What will happen next?
Please write to your elected representatives in federal, provincial and local government.
We have provided the text of a letter here - but you are invited to add to it, change it, and make it your own.
The Oceanside Coalition are planning to have a forum in March. Please watch the website for more details.
See also the Compliance Coal Corporation website
Examines problems associated with open-net-cage salmon farming
Private land versus public interest(pdf)
Logging operations on privately managed lands near protected parks was a
hot button issue in 2009 and there’s no sign relations between the forestry
companies and activists intent on protecting remaining old growth forests
will improve anytime soon. See full article.
Please also see:
Our water
Parks: protect and increase
Run of the rivers projects
Sustainable future
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