urgent - Sierra Club action alert - Bill C-32

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 06:23:30 -0300 (ADT)
From: Paul A Falvo <pfalvo@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Sustainable Maritimes <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Please take a moment before August 20 to visit the website below 
and send the following message to the Senate.

Bill C-32 contains greatly watered down provisions to amend the Canadian
Environmental Protection Act. For info, please visit our website:

http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/cepa-action-jul99.html

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Do you live in Halifax? Will you help distribute postcards, petitions and
fact sheets? Time is of the essence, so please *call* me at 454-9573 asap
to arrange delivery and pickup.

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The SCC National Office in Ottawa has produced an activist postcard
addressed to Senator Ron Ghitter, Chair, Standing Committee on Energy, the
Environment, and Natural Resources.
The text of the card is as follows:

Dear Senator Ghitter,

Our health depends upon reducing the pollution in our air, our water 
and our land.  The Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) must 
be the foundation for pollution prevention to protect the health of 
all Canadians, especially our children, and help reduce loss of 
biodiversity, wildlife and wilderness areas.

Bill C-32, the act to revise CEPA, contained new, reasonable measures 
as a result of study and revision by the House of Commons Standing 
Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development.  At the 
request of polluters, Bill C-32 was weakened, and the Bill now before 
the Senate does not provide sufficient protection.

Bill C-32 NO LONGER GUARANTEES that the most harmful pollutants will 
be phased out, or that biotechnology products will be properly tested, 
or that Health and Environment Ministers will be able to act quickly 
on toxic chemicals, or that the federal government will follow a 
strong, precautionary approach.

I strongly urge your committee, and the Senate as a whole, to protect 
human health and the environment by improving Bill C-32, by -- at a 
minimum, returning it to the version endorsed by the House of Commons 
Environment Committee.

Canadians are counting on you.

Name:						Address:

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The deadline for submission is August 20, 1999 -- so it's tight! 

Andrew MacDonald
National Office
Sierra Club of Canada

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Once again, please call if you can help distribute more cards. An email
reply won't be fast enough as the deadline is very short and i'm hoping to
get the cards to people on Saturday 14 Aug. 

thanks!
~paul :)

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Paul A. Falvo, LL.B.  *  902-454-9573  *  paul.falvo@sierraclub.org
Communications Chair, Eastern Canada Chapter, Sierra Club



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