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BILLY AND GOLIATH: EPIC PIPELINE ROUTE HEARING
Press Release....For Immediate Release....January 5, 1999
The Green Web, Saltsprings, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
On Thursday January 7th, at 1 pm in the Museum of Industry
in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, the final round of a David and
Goliath struggle will be played out. This struggle pits
Pictou County-raised Billy MacDonald, inspirational leader
of the nature-bonding and deep ecology based Red Tail Nature
Awareness Camp, now in its eighth year of operation, against
the power and wealth of the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline
(M&NEP). M&NEP want to run their high pressure natural gas
pipeline in a location which will effectively destroy the
heart of this extremely popular, wilderness camp.
This camp is rooted in community. It has taught its unique
lessons, and been visited and enjoyed by hundreds of young,
and not so young, people. The uninvited gas pipeline now
threatens the life of Red Tail and its core belief that
there has to be a fundamental change in how humans relate to
the natural world. As Henry Thoreau said: "In wildness is
the preservation of the world." Discovering the deeper
meanings of this statement, is the work of the now
threatened Red Tail Nature Awareness Camp.
Young supporters of Red Tail are expected to attend the
Stellarton meeting, which will be a video conference
organized by a panel of the National Energy Board (NEB).
Billy MacDonald has proposed an alternative route to that of
the M&NEP pipeline, further away from the camp. M&NEP is
opposing this alternative route, which would still enable
the wilderness camp to continue.
David Orton of the Green Web environmental research group,
was an intervenor in a previous detailed route hearing
concerning the objection of Billy MacDonald to the gas
pipeline, held on August 5th, 1998. Mr Orton said, "the work
being done with nature education by the Red Tail Camp is
needed by society and, to my knowledge, quite unique in
Canada."
If the NEB panel does not rule in favour of Red Tail's
alternative route, then there is no point in anyone seeking
justice from the NEB, if it conflicts with the economic
interests of the oil and gas industry.
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For further information concerning this press release, contact
David Orton, coordinator of the Green Web: (902) 925-2514
For further information on the situation facing the Red Tail
Nature Awareness Camp, contact Billy MacDonald: (902) 485-4688
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