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A message from Jan Slakov <jslakov@tartannet.ns.ca> for <sust-mar>
Dear Environmentalists, Dec. 28
A friend of mine, Billy Macdonald, runs the Red Tail Nature Awareness camp.
>From all accounts, this is an excellent camp which gives an opportunity for
young people to connect with nature.
Billy is very concerned that the proposed Sable Gas pipeline will pass very
near to his camp, cutting across land used for nature hikes and so on. He
applied to the National Energy Board to have the path of the pipeline
changed. to his surprise, the NEB agreed to hear his petition but the
company, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, has decided it wants to use the
originally proposed route.
All is not lost though. We can do two things to help out:
- attend the Jan. 7 hearing at 1PM, at the Stellarton Museum of Industry.
Billy is to present his argument why the pipeline route should be changed at
this hearing. The decision from that hearing will be final.
- Letters of support could be useful. I suggest you address them "To Whom it
May Concern" and send them to Billy MacDonald <billmacd@north.nsis.com>. He
can decide if they will be useful to present. (or let us know if we ought to
send them directly to some authority)
I will clip in my letter below as a model.
all the best, Jan
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To Whom It May Concern, Dec. 28
"...unless we actually experience nature at very specific intervals in
childhood, we fail to trigger the emotional bonding with the wild world that
affects the way we treat it as adults. Consequently, we lack the constraints
against developing materialist, nihilist and other ecologically destructive
attitudes..."
- David Suzuki, _The Sacred Balance_
I am writing to urge you to make sure that the proposed Sable Gas pipeline
route be built as far away from the Red Tail Nature Awareness Camp as
possible.
I have never had the opportunity to visit the camp, but I know its founder,
Billy Macdonald, and can see that he would provide a most enriching camp
experience for those people lucky enough to go to his camp.
His camp is not just for children of families with means but some children
going to the camp have already had a tough time in their short lives and the
camp can help them find healthy challenges and meaning in their lives.
We need the camp for its contribution to protecting ecological health and
also for the health of society and our youth.
Construction of the pipeline is to take place in the summer of 1999, right
at the peak season for the camp. And unless the route is changed, it will
cut right across lands the camp uses for daily nature walks!
Society supposedly encourages people to start small businesses and
contribute to their communities. But if we, as a province, allow the
pipeline to cut close to the camp, we will be discouraging these very goals.
I hope I will soon learn that those responsible for deciding the route of
the pipeline will have ruled in favour of protecting the Red Tail Nature
Awareness Camp.
Sincerely,
Jan Slakov
secretary, Enviro-Clare
Box 35
Weymouth, NS
B0W 3T0
(902) 837-4980
<jslakov@tartannet.ns.ca>
P.S. To see the philosophical basis of the Red Tail Nature Camp,
see GreenWeb Bulletin #65 "Red Tail Wilderness Camp and
Pipeline Route Hearings" by David Orton, August 1998.
Available from the Green Web <greenweb@fox.nstn.ca>.
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