Rally for the Evacuation of Frederick Street

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:02:25 -0400
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>From: Bradford Duplisea <brad@pei.sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Rally for the Evacuation of Frederick Street
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>Media Advisory
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>Rally for the Evacuation of Frederick Street
>
>Action for the Evacuation of Frederick Street will be staging a rally in
>Halifax on Saturday, May 1, from 2:30 PM to 4 PM. The rally and march will
>commence at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Queen Street.
>
>“The rally is being staged to bring awareness to the JAG recommendation and
>that of the plight of the Frederick Street residents,” says Luke Fraser,
>one of
>the rally organizers. “We are urging the public to come out and support the
>residents of Frederick Street.”
>
>For information contact:
>
>Luke Fraser
>902.463.3779
>lightningseed@hotmail.com
>
>Caitlin Hancey
>902.422.3638
>hancey@netcom.ca
>
>Action for the Evacuation of Frederick Street
>2099 Gottingen St., Halifax, NS B3K 3B2
>Fax:  902-425-7778 E-mail:  yfsj@hotmail.com
>
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>
>EMBARGOED UNTIL APRIL 30, 1999
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>Rally for the Evacuation of Frederick Street
>
>Halifax - The residents of Sydney, Nova Scotia’s Frederick Street are facing
>continued neglect from government officials, says a new Halifax-based
>organization. Action for the Evacuation of Frederick Street is publicly
>calling
>on the Russell MacLellan government to evacuate the residents of Frederick
>street immediately.
>
>Frederick street borders on the former 125 acre coking site, where chemicals
>were cooked at extremely high temperatures to make “coke” for the steel making
>process. Environmentalists call the former coking site one of the most toxic
>places in North America, and for good reason. There are areas where the soil
>spontaneously breaks into undistinguishable flames. Underground, over 160
>km of
>unpurged pipes contain some of the most toxic chemicals known to man. The soil
>is estimated to be polluted to depths of over 80 feet.
>
>“Unfortunately, the toxic chemicals in the soil have migrated through the soil
>to the Frederick Street area and now pose a major threat to the health and
>safety of the residents,” says Caitlin Hancey of Action for the Evacuation of
>Frederick Street.
>
>Residents were horrified last week when they realized the toxic chemicals had
>returned to Frederick Street. Last summer two toxic events shocked the
>residents of Frederick Street. The Frederick Street brook started to ooze an
>orange colored substance from it’s banks. A few weeks later, the residents
>awoke one morning to find a 30 foot-long black sludge-like substance oozing
>out
>of the ground. Provincial tests conducted in the backyard of one of the
>residents showed arsenic concentrations over 18 times greater than the
>Federal-Provincial established pollution guidelines (CCME).
>
>Members of the Joint Action Group (JAG), an organization created by government
>to oversee the cleanup of the former coking site and the tar ponds,
>recommended
>that the residents be relocated no later than June 1, 1999.Internationally
>renowned scientist, Dr. Rosalie Bertell of the International Institute of
>Concern for Public Health (IICPH), publicly stated that no human being should
>live on Frederick Street.
>
>By ignoring JAG and the IICPH, the Russell MacLellan government has put the
>Frederick Street residents in grave danger. “It is time for Premier Russell
>McLellan to do the right thing,” says Juanita MacKenzie, a resident of
>Frederick Street. “I’m really scared - I want out before the ground thaws and
>these toxic chemicals start flowing again.”
>
>Action for the Evacuation of Frederick Street will be staging a rally in
>Halifax on Saturday, May 1, from 2:30 PM to 4 PM. The rally and march will
>commence at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Queen Street.
>
>“The rally is being staged to bring awareness to the JAG recommendation and
>that of the plight of the Frederick Street residents,” says Luke Fraser,
>one of
>the rally organizers. “We are urging the public to come out and support the
>residents of Frederick Street.”
>
>For information contact:
>Luke Fraser  902.463.3779  or  Caitlin Hancey  902.422.3638
>
>Action for the Evacuation of Frederick Street
>2099 Gottingen St., Halifax, NS B3K 3B2
>Fax:  902-425-7778 E-mail:  yfsj@hotmail.com
>
>
>Bradford Duplisea
>[mailto:brad@pei.sympatico.ca]
>
>"The best things in life aren't things."
>                                    - unknown
>

nspirg
nova scotia public interest research group
6136 university ave
halifax, ns
b3h 4j2
902-494-6662
nspirg@is2.dal.ca
executive director : linda pannozzo


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