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Paul Falvo was surfing novascotia.cbc.ca and sent you this CBC News story with the comment:
"Send a fax to John Hamm
http://atlantic.sierraclub.ca/"
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HERBICIDE TO BE SPRAYED IN SPITE OF PROTESTS
HALIFAX -
The Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources is going ahead with its plan to spray
a controversial herbicide in three counties, in spite of a backlash from
environmental and community groups.
The department issued a tender this week to hire helicopters to spray the
herbicide Vision over Crown land in parts of Colchester, Cumberland and Kings
counties.
From AUG. 24, 2004 - Government to spray controversial herbicide
The Natural Resources department sprays herbicide on parcels of Crown land that have been clear cut by lumber companies, to prevent new hardwood trees from choking out more valuable softwood trees.
The Atlantic Canada chapter of the Sierra Club wants
to stop the spraying. It says Vision is harmful to
wildlife, causes respiratory problems in people, and has been linked to some
cancers.
The province's call for a tender to spray prompted the group to launch an
e-mail campaign to stop the process.
The Sierra Club 's Emily McMillan says, "People can go on to our website.
There's a sample letter to get them started. They can write their own letter
and send it to a whole list of people who need to hear the message that we
don't want the spraying program to go forward."
McMillan says, on the first day of the campaign, hundreds of people sent e-mails to the government.
But Janice Rogers says that won't work. She's one of the protesters who
managed to stop the province from spraying the same chemical on Crown land
in Hants County three years ago.
That group camped out on the land for several weeks.
Rogers says direct action is the only way to get the province's attention.
"You can make phone calls - that's good. You can write letters and
e-mails - that's great. But it doesn't seem to do enough. What you have
to do is go out and be there so that they can't spray, and so they
understand the seriousness of what they're doing," Rogers says.
A spokesperson for the Department of Natural Resources says the process
for spraying the trees is only in the beginning stages.
The department still has to make a selection from the companies bidding
for the job. It doesn't plan to start spraying until late September.
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This story, forwarded to you by pfalvo@chebucto.ca,
appears on http://cbc.ca at the following URL:
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ns_herbicide20040827
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