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>X-Sender: p1drkx76@pop1.sympatico.ca >Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:26:04 -0300 >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Bradford Duplisea <brad@pei.sympatico.ca> >Subject: Rally for the Evacuation of Frederick Street >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >Please Spread The Word >********************* > >Media Advisory > >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 > >*************************************** > >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 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- You received this because you are subscribed to "sust-mar", the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list. 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