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Nova Scotia Environmental Network Notes / 21 March 98 Environment Canada / Wharves / Atlantic Earth Festival / Help Wanted / MAI / Words from Abroad Request for Input: coordinators of the PEI, Newfoundland/Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia environmental networks will be meeting in Halifax, 30 March 98. We will meet with people from the regional office of Environment Canada the next day (31 Mar). A prime objective for the meeting from our point of view is to address the decline in funding through EC for the core--advocacy--activities of grass-roots organizations. If you have any comments on that issue or any other that you would like carried forward in these meetings, contact: nsen@web.net Issue / Information: The Coastal Communities Network (CCN) is deeply concerned about the future of Nova Scotia's wharves. A potentially devastating federal program is placing community wharves up for sale, and forcing neighbours to compete against each other for dwindling funding. The Network recently drafted a discussion paper called "Closing our highways to the sea: The crisis in Maritime small craft harbours." The CCN has compared the possibility of fishermen losing access to wharves to having highways permanently closed to truckers. The paper calls for communities to join together to change the political policies that allow funding cutbacks to threaten the viability of communities. It also calls for the development of a community-based management system that will ensure the long-term survival of this type of infrastructure once funding has been secured. Contact: Ishbel Munro, Coastal Communities Network, R.R. #5, New Glasgow, NS B2H 5C8, ph/fax: (902) 922-2283, <coastal.network@north.nsis.com> Homepage: http://www.gdlewis.ednet.ns.ca/~coastal/index.html Public Event Planning / Atlantic Earth Festival: The 10th anniversary of this annual free open-to-the-public environmental/social justice/music event will take place June 6-7, at the George Dixon Centre in north-end Halifax. With ample open space adjoining a covered auditorium, organizers are expecting rain-or-shine success for the 1998 Earth Festival. "We are especially looking forward to working with the community of the the George Dixon Center". Organizers would very much like to hear the ideas and input of participating groups at this early stage in event planning. Please get in touch with NGO coordinators Katherine Winlow, (902) 423-4133 or Victoria Ridler, (902) 477-0592; fax: (902) 425-7778, <ip-aef@chebucto.ns.ca>, www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/AEF/index.html Critical response design team, interested persons please apply: Through an agreement with the Nova Scotia Department of the Environment, NSEN is assembling a small action group to design a sustainable means of responding to proposals for changes to provincial environmental policy and regulations. Six or seven people, 6-8 hours work each, mostly by email. NSEN's objective is that, when the Nova Scotia Department of the Environment releases proposals for change in regulation or policies, someone knowledgeable in the field affected would write a brief plain-language description of what the proposal is about, why people should pay attention to it, where further information can be found, what consultation events are planned, and who the contact people are. Receiving this information, network members would be asked to alert local groups and individuals who might have a special interest in a specific document. To design this process--to assess its feasability--we would like to hear from interested people with some experience in editing and writing in specific fields of environmental regulation, who have a serious interest in getting a process in place, and working as part of a team to do it. Contact: Don Black, nsen@web.net National Public Awareness Program / Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI): More than 40 national organizations have joined with The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Labour Congress to call for a Speak Out against the MAI from coast to coast on March 19 to 22. CKDU in Halifax is running special programming the following week. Ecology Action Centre's Marine Issues Committee has prepared a brief information package about the potential impacts of the MAI on Canadian fisheries. Contact Mark Butler or Jennifer Graham (902) 429-2202.
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