bulk export of water (fwd)

Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:01:39 -0300 (ADT)
From: Marjorie I Stone <mistone@is.dal.ca>
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:13:22 -0300
From: Ramona Ryan <rryan@mgmt.dal.ca>
Cc: cwhite@canadians.org
Subject: bulk export of water

We are asking our friends who agree with the statement below to 
please ask your organization to endorse it, and return it to the 
Council as soon as possible.  

Below that is another statement which we are asking groups and 
individuals to sign and send to your local environment ministers.  A 
list of their addresses in included. Thanks for your help in stopping 
water exports, Cliff White Regional Organizer Council of Canadians 
******

STOP THE ACCORD! Canadians and Parliament have urged the federal
government to ban the bulk export of water. The federal government 
has responded  by proposing a voluntary federal-provincial accord on 
water. 

This accord is not binding or enforceable, it is based on continental
drainage basins, not ecosystem supporting watersheds, and it actually
allows bulk water exports. 

Provincial environmental measures by themselves, no matter how well
designed or well intended will not protect Canadian water from
short-sighted profiteers and the rights conferred on them by 
international trade agreements. Therefore, we are asking experts and 
activists from across Canada to show their disapproval by signing the 
following statement.  

SIGN-ON: "I/We reject the federal-provincial accord on water
because it is voluntary, environmentally ineffective and explicitly 
allows the bulk export of water. We call on the federal government to 
ban bulk water exports and to exempt water from all current and 
future international trade, investment and service agreements." 

Please send replies to Jamie Dunn, Water Campaigner 
mailto:jdunn@canadians.org tel 1800 387-7177 fax (613) 233-6776

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The Council of Canadians, Maritime Organizing Office
6009 Quinpool Rd. Hlfx. NS. B3K 5J6
Ph. 422-7811, Fax: 429-6082


Dear Minister:

The proposed federal-provincial water accord will undermine 
provincial environmental legislation and put Canada's water at 
greater risk of being exported. I urge you not to endorse this 
accord. Instead, I ask that you demand that the federal government do 
its job - ban bulk water exports and remove water from all current 
and future trade agreements. 

New Brunswick:
Kim Jardine Fax Email  Kim.Jardine@gov.nb.ca

Nova Scotia:
Michael Baker (Acting Minister)
Fax (902) 424-0503
Email  doehlfx.daidenls@gov.ns.ca

PEI:
Kevin MacAdam
Fax (902) 368-6488
Email  kjmacadam@gov.pe.ca

Newfoundland:
Oliver Langdon
Fax (709) 729-0112
Email olangdon@mail.gov.nf.ca

You can also email Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy and 
Environment Minister David Anderson.



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