NSPIRG recognized for Clearcutting in Perspective

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:44:17 -0400
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PRESS RELEASE     please circulate widely

>Contact: Mother Tessa Bielecki
>(Available by phone, 8 am-12 noon MDT, Saturday, 7 October)
>Nada Hermitage
>PO Box 219
>Crestone, CO 81131 USA
>Phone: 719-256-4778
>Fax: 719-256-4719
>For release Saturday, 7 October, 2000

>Decoding Pulp Fiction

>Monks Announce Second Annual Ecoforestry Award
>The second annual Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award, announced today by the monks
>of Nova Nada, is split between the Sierra Club of Canada and the Nova Scotia
>Public Interest Research Group in recognition of their efforts to save the
>forests of Nova Scotia.
>Elizabeth May, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada exposed "the
>crisis in Canada's forests" in her exhaustively researched and controversial
>book entitled AT THE CUTTING EDGE. Sierra protests the degradation of our
>forests by the industrialized logging of companies such as J.D. Irving, Ltd.
>of St. John, New Brunswick. With the assistance of Ms. Rita Morbia and Mr.
>Charlie Restino, recipient of the first Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award, Sierra
>also continues to appeal the "green certification" of Irving's forestry
>practices in both Canada and the United States.

>The Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) is honoured for the
>Spring 2000 issue (volume VIII) of their free publication, "Clearcutting in
>Perspective," edited by Linda Pannozzo and Dave Caulfield. "Clearcutting in
>Perspective" considers creative alternatives to clearcutting in Nova Scotia
>and exposes the effects of industrialized logging on unemployment, the
>environment, and the relationship between public and private lands. NSPIRG
>deftly decodes the "pulp fiction" doublespeak of J.D. Irving Ltd.'s
>advertising campaign against Nova Nada's request for a two-mile no-cut
>silent buffer zone. For this, the monks are especially grateful.

>The monks established the Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award after losing their
>Nova Scotia monastery in 1998 because of Irving's noisy logging operations.
>The monastery, also a retreat centre and haven for thousands of guests from
>around the world, was founded in 1972 and remained undisturbed for almost 25
>years, deep in the woods of North Kemptville.
>In 1996, without warning, J.D. Irving Ltd. moved in heavy equipment and
>began logging 24 hours a day, resulting in what the monks called "torture by
>feller-bunchers."
>After a 3-year struggle, the monks failed to secure the 2-mile no-cut buffer
>zone essential for their survival and were forced to close Nova Nada, which
>is currently up for sale.
>The Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award remembers this unnecessary tragedy caused by
>corporate greed and honours those who labour heroically for the health and
>preservation of our forests.
>Each October, in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology,
>the Spiritual Life Institute announces this award. The monks thereby
>continue their commitment to help find creative solutions to the threats of
>unemployment and environmental destruction, two issues which are
>inextricably linked.

>For further information, contact:
>Charlie Restino: (902) 295-3053
>Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada: (613) 241-4611
>Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group: (902) 494-6662

>Copies of Clearcutting in Perspective are available from:
>NSPIRG
>6136 University Ave.
>Dalhousie University
>Room 314, Student Union Building
>Halifax, NS B3H 4J2
>

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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