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>EARTH ACTION >81 Prince Street >Charlottetown PEI C1A 4R3 >Tel: 902-621-0719 >Email: slabchuk@isn.net > >NEWS RELEASE >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >December 4, 1998 > >EARTH ACTION OPPOSES TRACADIE LANDFILL SITE > >Charlottetown - Earth Action fully supports the Tracadie Area Residents For >Resource Protection (TARRP) in their campaign to prevent the Binns >government from siting a landfill on crown land in their community. > The Tracadie Cross land was chosen as the location for a new landfill even >though it was not one of the preferred sites identified by a provincial site >selection committee. "We're asking Premier Binns to halt the process, step >back and take a breather," says Sharon Labchuk, Earth Action coordinator. >"No community in the province wants the kind of landfill government is >proposing. It's not a question of not-in-my-backyard. The way we deal with >our garbage, even with a Waste Watch program, is just not good enough. We >need to have a long public discussion and develop a waste management program >and a waste prevention program that is acceptable to everyone." > Earth Action not only opposes the use of crown land in Tracadie Cross for >a landfill site but for any development at all. Labchuk says PEI, along >with every other province, has committed to put a certain percentage of land >under protection. " Most provinces have agreed to put 12% of their land >base under protection by the year 2000. PEI weasled that number down to 7% >and currently has only 2.6% protected. If we are ever going to meet even >this minimal objective, we have to fiercely defend the destruction of crown >lands. This land in Tracadie Cross is a natural area. It's forested, it's >beautiful, birds and animals live there. Premier Binns has no business >sacrificing a forest owned by the people of PEI for a landfill site." > She says the Earth is losing wilderness at the rate of one acre every 15 >seconds and that some conservation biologists believe the future of the >planet depends on having a minimum of 50% of the Earth left in a wilderness >state. "The predominant ecosystem of PEI, the Acadian Forest, has been >mangled and diminished beyond recognition. And the small bits and pieces of >land already under protection are museum pieces, islands of doom unable to >maintain biological diversity over time because of surrounding development. >We desperately need large areas of forested land put under protection and >left in a wilderness state," says Labchuk. > An Environmental Impact Assessment, costing upwards of $300,000 must be >completed before work can begin on the Tracadie Cross site. Earth Action is >asking Premier Banns to halt any further expenditure of taxpayers money on >the development. > > - 30 - >Contact: >Sharon Labchuk 621-0719 or 368-7337 >************************************************************ >Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net> > >"LORD TAKE MY SOUL. BOYCOTT $HELL >THE STUGGLE CONTINUES" > - KEN SARO-WIWA (before his execution on November 10, 1995) >___________________________________________________________ >M.A.I. - TELL US WHY? > >Prince Edward Island PROPAGANDA JOURNAL >look at http://www3.pei.sympatico.ca/brad/ >
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