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March 5TH 2003
Hello All,
Could the fight to save the Public Lands at Eigg
Mountain/James River and the Gully Lake area
nearly be over?
A recent Daily News article (Brian Flinn) Dated
Feb 12th 2003 stated
That the Hamm Government is getting ready to to
add more sites to the province’s list of
protected areas. Ron Russell, the Minister of
Environment, was quoted as saying; “I’m expecting
sometime this year we’ll be announcing”. The
Deputy minister said the department was looking
at two or three candidate sites.
Does it mean the areas will be protected? That
isn’t known as there were no references in the
article to any specific area. And of course as
we all know with politicians nothing is in the
bag until its really in the bag!
But there may be some light at the end of the
tunnel, with an election looming there is a good
chance that with some ‘MORE’ (sigh!…………….) letter
writing, something may happen.
WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?
We need anyone and everyone who cares about this
issue to write to the minister of the Environment
(Ron Russell) to express their desire to have
these two places protected. For anyone who isn’t
familiar with either area, they are located in
Northern (mainland) Nova Scotia, Pictou,
Antigonish and Colchester Counties. (See webb
site links below) Currently there are no
protected areas in this region. We need to ask
him (the minister) to do more, to place these
places under protection from industry and
development for good. They are both on so called
‘Public Land’ and as the general public we do
deserve more of a say.
We can also write to our local newspapers or the
provincial newspapers. Contact the Ministers
office by phone, fax him, show your Local MLA’s
that you care about this issue and ask them to
raise it in Caucus meetings. Organisations need
to get involved, express your views loud and
clear. This might be one last kick at the can so
to speak.
Please pass this information on to anyone who may
take some action to help secure these areas for
protection. Please don’t leave this too long,
with an election looming, now is the time!! Maybe
we can BE the difference with one Last effort.
Lets go for it.
Thanks
Mark Brennan
Webb sites with info
EIGG MOUNTAIN/JAMES RIVER
http://www.supercity.ns.ca/%7Eland/eigg.html
GULLY LAKE
http://www.supercity.ns.ca/%7Eland/gully.html
CONTACTS
TO: Minister of the Environment
RON RUSSELL
email: russelro@gov.ns.ca
Terminal Road Building, 5th Floor
5151 Terminal Road
PO Box 697
Halifax, NS B3J 2T8
Phone: (902) 424-5300
Fax: (902) 424-0575
IMPORTANT CC: Deputy Minister of Environment
lesperre@gov.ns.ca
Local MLA’s
Gully Lake
Muriel (Fluff) Baillie (Pictou West)
mbaillie@north.nsis.com
Constituency Office:
12 Water Street
Pictou, NS B0K 1H0
Phone: (902) 485-5868
Fax: (902) 485-5415
Gully Lake
Bill Langille (Colchester North)
bill.langille@ns.sympatico.ca
Constituency Office:
30 Duke Street
Truro, NS B2N 2A1
Phone: (902) 893-2180
Fax: (902) 893-3064
Eigg Mountain/James River
Angus MacIsaac (Antigonish)
a.macisaac@ns.sympatico.ca
Constituency Office:
219 Main Street, S-202
Antigonish, NS B2G 2C1
Phone: (902) 867-1915
Fax: (902) 867-1917
News Papers (letter to the editor)
New Glasgow Evening News
letters@newglasgownews.com
Halifax Herald letters@herald.ns.ca.
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Mark Brennan
Pictou County
Nova Scotia
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