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MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2002
ENVIRONMENTAL, FISHERY AND FIRST NATIONS COALITION RELEASES DAMNING
INDICTMENT OF OIL AND GAS
Following a day of presentations by oil companies at the Public Review
Commission holding hearings in Cape Breton into the impact of oil and gas
exploration in sensitive in-shore areas in coastal Cape Breton, a coalition
of fisheries organizations, environmental groups, First Nations and tourism
interests, "Save our Seas and Shores Coalition" (SOSS) will release
tomorrow a major report.
The 154 page report "Crude Costs: A framework for a full-cost accounting
analysis of oil and gas exploration in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia" was
commissioned by the SOSS coalition to provide a detailed background for the
commissioner in areas including the costs and benefits of exploration
versus the risks to existing economic activity (tourism, fisheries, etc),
the record of human rights abuses and environmental damage by the oil and
gas companies in this public review, the threat to species at risk and a
range of other issues. The report was prepared by two Halifax based
researchers, Linda Pannozzo and Laura Landon using techniques of full cost
accounting. The full report can be found on the Public Review Commission
web site or at the Sierra Club site: WWW.sierraclub.ca/national.
Other witnesses appearing tomorrow include:
** A written statement from one of the world's most prominent experts on
the threat of seismic testing to whales: Dr. Christopher Clarke of Cornell
University. (Dr. Clarke will also appear on video through an interview
conducted by Nova Scotia film maker Neal Livingston).
** Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director Elizabeth May
** Inverness North Fishermen's Association (Herman Deveau)
** The Selkowitz family (long time summer residents from New York and
California)
Contact:
Mary Gorman 902-926-2128
Sierra Club of Canada 613-241-4611 (for messages for Elizabeth May who will
call in from the Wagmatcook hearings)
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END OF MESSAGE. CBC enviro news-briefs follow:
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WINTER STORM BRINGS MORE SNOW
Most schools in Nova Scotia are closed Wednesday as another winter storm
continues to cover the province. Schools in the Halifax area are the big
exception - they're still open.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_school160102
MIXED REACTION TO THIBAULT'S APPOINTMENT
Some Nova Scotia fishermen are enthused about Robert Thibault's appointment
as federal Fisheries Minister, but some caution that Thibault has a tough
balancing act ahead of him.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_thibreax020115
LEADERS TACKLE ABORIGINAL SELF-RELIANCE
A meeting of first nation leaders is looking at ways to get aboriginal
people off
welfare and become self-reliant.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_assistance160102
CB FISHERIES OPPOSE SEISMIC TESTING
Two fisheries groups in Cape Breton are worried oil and gas exploration
could hurt their
livelihoods.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_explore160102
© Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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