FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EARTH ACTION OPPOSES TRACADIE LANDFILL SITE

Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:42:05 -0400 (AST)
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>EARTH ACTION
>81 Prince Street
>Charlottetown  PEI C1A 4R3
>Tel: 902-621-0719
>Email: slabchuk@isn.net
>
>NEWS RELEASE
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>December 4, 1998
>
>EARTH ACTION OPPOSES TRACADIE LANDFILL SITE
>
>Charlottetown - Earth Action fully supports the Tracadie Area Residents For
>Resource Protection (TARRP)  in their campaign to prevent the Binns
>government from siting a landfill on crown land in their community.
> The Tracadie Cross land was chosen as the location for a new landfill even
>though it was not one of the preferred sites identified by a provincial
site
>selection committee. "We're asking Premier Binns to halt the process, step
>back and take a breather,"  says Sharon Labchuk, Earth Action coordinator.
>"No community in the province wants the kind of landfill government is
>proposing.  It's not a question of not-in-my-backyard.  The way we deal
with
>our garbage, even with a Waste Watch program, is just not good enough.  We
>need to have a long public discussion and develop a waste management
program
>and a waste prevention program that is acceptable to everyone."
> Earth Action not only opposes the use of  crown land in Tracadie Cross for
>a landfill site but for any development at all.  Labchuk says PEI, along
>with every other province, has committed to put a certain percentage of
land
>under protection.  " Most provinces have agreed to put 12% of their land
>base under protection by the year 2000.  PEI weasled that number down to 7%
>and currently has only 2.6% protected.  If we are ever going to meet even
>this minimal objective, we have to fiercely defend the destruction of crown
>lands. This land in Tracadie Cross is a natural area.  It's forested, it's
>beautiful, birds and animals live there.  Premier Binns has no business
>sacrificing a forest owned by the people of PEI for a landfill site."
> She says the Earth is losing wilderness at the rate of one acre every 15
>seconds and that some conservation biologists believe the future of the
>planet depends on having a minimum of 50% of the Earth left in a wilderness
>state.  "The predominant ecosystem of PEI, the Acadian Forest, has been
>mangled and diminished beyond recognition.  And the small bits and pieces
of
>land already under protection are museum pieces, islands of doom unable to
>maintain biological diversity over time because of surrounding development.
>We desperately need large areas of forested land put under protection and
>left in a wilderness state," says Labchuk.
> An Environmental Impact Assessment, costing upwards of $300,000 must be
>completed before work can begin on the Tracadie Cross site.  Earth Action
is
>asking Premier Banns to halt any further expenditure of taxpayers money on
>the development.
>
> - 30 -
>Contact:
>Sharon Labchuk   621-0719 or 368-7337
>************************************************************
>Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net>
>
>"LORD TAKE MY SOUL. BOYCOTT $HELL
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>        - KEN SARO-WIWA (before his execution on November 10, 1995)
>___________________________________________________________
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