Digby Neck Presentation Tues. Nov. 26!

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- “The Digby Neck Mega-Quarry- Beyond NIMBY and NAFTA”
- Tuesday, November 26, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- ScotiaBank Auditorium, FASS Building
 (across from the Dalhousie Student Union)

MEDIA ADVISORY

Dr. Janet Eaton brings “The Digby Neck Mega-Quarry: Beyond NIMBY and
NAFTA” to Halifax.

First, Digby Neck. Next, Digby. Then, Acadia University in Wolfville.
Now, Dr. Janet Eaton, internationally respected consultant in the field
of the global corporate economy and champion of sustainable community
development, brings her hard-hitting power-point “The Digby Neck
Mega-Quarry: Beyond NIMBY and NAFTA” to Halifax.

Dr. Eaton’s powerful presentation exposes the myriad negative economic
and environmental impacts associated with a U.S.-based project that is
so misguided that it threatens the internationally acclaimed local
sustainable economy, the traditional livelihoods, the way of life, and
the very landscape — not to mention already endangered right whales and
the vital and fragile local marine ecosystem — of one of the most
beautiful corners of Nova Scotia, Digby Neck and the Islands.

The first place the quarry proponents plan to obliterate with their
first assault on the native basalt is the very site of the once thriving

coastal fishing community of White Cove that inspired Julia Sauer’s
award-winning classic children’s book Fog Magic. Confronting Energy
Minister and MLA for the Digby-Annapolis Gordon Balser at the
Legislature last Wednesday, Mark Dittrick, Interim Director of Sierra
Club’s Atlantic Canada Chapter, said "This is like bulldozing the Anne
of Green Gables House and putting an open pit coal mine there for the
sake of a few jobs."

Dr. Janet Eaton is Executive Director of the Institute for Global
Creative Perspective. She has taught in the Political Science Department

of Acadia University and is Sierra Club of Canada’s International
Liaison to the Corporate Accountability Committee of the U.S. Sierra
Club.

“The Digby Neck Mega-Quarry
Beyong NIMBY and NAFTA”

Tuesday, November 26, 7:00pm to 9:00pm

ScotiaBank Auditorium, FASS Building
 (across from the Dalhousie Student Union)

Sponsored by the Atlantic Canada Chapter of Sierra Club of Canada, the
Partnership for Sustainable Development of Digby Neck and Islands
Society, Dalhousie University’s Society for Corporate Environmental and
Social Responsibility, and the Dalhousie University Economics Students’
Association.

Contacts:

Mark Dittrick, Sierra Club of Canada
Phone: 1 (902) 532-2108
E-mail: markdittrick@hotmail.com
Sierra Club Halifax Office: 1-902-422-5091

Dr. Janet Eaton
Phone: 1 (902) 542-1631
E-mail: jeaton@ca.inter.net



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