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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ media release..Wednesday March 3rd 2004. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ _________Belledune & Digby Neck: the NEW JERSEY Connection____ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "It reads like something too wild to put on the hit TV series, The Sopranos, but is actually something being seriously proposed, and what is worse, being seriously considered by Maritime Governments," says Michael Marshall, candidate for the Green Party nomination in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, about plans to link Belledune New Brunswick and Digby Neck Nova Scotia to the state of New Jersey. "300,000 tonnes of pure basalic rock will be carved out of the beautiful cliffs of the scenic Digby Neck and shipped down to the state of New Jersey. At the very same time, in the opposite direction, 300,000 tonnes of toxic,polluted soil from a US "Supersite" (major environmental disaster) in New Jersey will be heading north to a site in Belledune New Brunswick." "300,000 tonnes of beauty out and 300,000 tonnes of Hell in - is all that is beautiful in Atlantic Canada to be carved out a chunk at a time to satisfy the Behemoth to the South, while we become one big cesspool for all their toxic effulent?", asks Marshall. Marshall notes there has been serious discussion of exporting pure Newfoundland water south to the US, making water an export item under the Free Trade Agreement."Already there are well founded fears by environmentalists in border provinces that as pure Canadian water heads south,polluted water from border pulp mills could be heading north for treatment and holding in Canada, if American environmental laws toughen any further." "I can not fully blame American polluters for wanting to head north, if the attraction is Canada's weak,lax environmental laws." Marshall hopes to be part of a full slate of Green candidates from Atlantic Canada, "one of 32 highly ordinary citizens - not a career politician among them - who stepped forward because the established parties have given only lip service to our Environmental Crisis," says Marshall. information: 422-4968 453-2011 ad760@chebucto.ca ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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