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Sat Jan 11 21:56:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-21.islandnet.com [198.53.172.21] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0vjEUu-0006cCC for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:14:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:14:04 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: The Combat Zone (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Atmosphere-- Global Warming & Health X-UIDL: 53ccb41e3ab3614721e114b4a5386fee fyi, Al Rycroft Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald [********* PAIN FORUM **********] From: Jay Hanson Our Health ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Infectious diseases kill more than 17 million people annually.| |_______________________________________________________________| Overview Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment Global warming may have grave consequences for the future control of disease. In the coming decades, and in combination with other environmental and social pressures, the current world-wide warming trend is likely to increase the exposure of millions of people to new diseases and health risks. All the indications are that this disturbing change has already begun. Infectious diseases are currently emerging, resurging and undergoing redistribution on a global scale. In fact, according to a 1996 World Health Organization (WHO) report, at least 30 new infectious diseases have emerged in the past 20 years. Diseases transmitted person-to-person, like diphtheria and whooping cough, have resurged in many countries where social structures have deteriorated. Dengue, or breakbone fever, which had essentially disappeared in the western hemisphere, has now resurged in the Americas, infecting over 200,000 people in 1995. Also in 1995, the largest epidemic of yellow fever in the Americas since 1950 struck Peru, while other similar epidemics have occurred throughout West Africa. While biological changes, underfunded public health systems, and social inequities are contributing to the emergence of infectious diseases, environmental changes, including global warming and greater weather volatility, are playing significant roles in this global disease resurgence. Diseases involving pest species as vectors (carriers), respond most readily to environmental change, and for example, meningitis epidemics are associated with severe drought conditions. In fact, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the current outbreak is among the largest ever recorded. By mid-1996 over 100,000 people had contracted the disease, and 10,000 had died. Some new infectious diseases causing problems in the United States, such as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and Lyme disease have not been imported, but rather emerged there. The implications of the impacts to humans are enormous. As with most risks to human health, children and the elderly-particularly the poor-will be most vulnerable. From an international policy point of view, the resurgence and spread of diseases would strain already fragile North/South relationships. There have been periods of uncontrollable waves of disease radically altering human civilization in the past, such as when Europe's population was devastated by bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. But even that problem was associated with environmental changes such as population growth and urbanization. Now, a rapidly warming climate may be the stimulus for widescale change in disease patterns. Climate also plays a part in maintaining the balance between pests and the predators that prey on them and thereby act as natural biological controls of infectious diseases. For example, owls, coyotes and snakes help regulate populations of rodents involved in the transmission of Lyme disease, hantaviruses, arenaviruses (hemorrhagic fevers), leptospirosis and human plague. Likewise, freshwater fish, reptiles and bats limit the abundance of mosquitoes-some carrying malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever and encephalitis. In marine systems, fish, shellfish and sea mammals help regulate algae-some toxic, others anoxic, still others transporters of cholera bacteria. Destruction of habitat worldwide is reducing the predators, and global warming may be increasing the ability of many disease vectors to survive and reproduce. ------------------------ via PAIN http://www.applicom.com/pnews/ From ???@??? Mon Jan 20 22:22:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: from nanaimo.ark.com [204.50.61.2] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0vmYwQ-0006cmC for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:40:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from na2p11.ark.com (na1p26.ark.com [204.50.61.59]) by nanaimo.ark.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA29559; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:41:10 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:41:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199701210541.VAA29559@nanaimo.ark.com> X-Sender: convert@nanaimo.ark.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: yacinfo@mars.ark.com, brownjay@island.net, roger_lagasse@sunshine.net, emerald@islandnet.com From: Nanoose Conversion Campaign Subject: SPEC: AGM '97 X-UIDL: 2dcf0683f52670ab138cedb327bb28a7 To: NCC Directors, Jay Mussell, Al Rycroft From: Norm Re: SPEC AGM (Saturday January 18, 1997) Vamcouver's oldest environmental group SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation), elected a new board of 21 (yes, twenty-one!) directors on January 18, 1997. Ivan and I both attended on behalf of NCC, to propose that SPEC and NCC work closer together and that SPEC form a nuclear-issues committee. Ivan nominated me as a SPEC director. The other directors (appologies for wrong spellings) are: * David Cadman - President * Sunee Vektoor - Vice president * Anne Fairies - Treasurer * Catherine Germaine - Secretary * Alice Coppard - Honourary president * Doug Abberly, * Shirley McGrew (sp?), * Don Alexander, * Paul Hundal, * Arne Hansen, * Helen Spiegleman, * Carol Christopher, * April Hermases (sp?), * Stephen Chan, * Marian Hall, * Will Paulik, * Jared Irwin, * Brett Whitelaw, * Liz Bannister, * The quorum is 5, so the (huge) size of this board is not a problem: and may help with getting a committee structure started. on the many SPEC issues (bicycles, solid waste disposal, liquid waste, watersheds, air-care, land use, energy, recycling, etc etc...). Nuclear issues is one, so NCC will be well represented. The meeting was well-attended (about 50 people) and there was lots of enthusiasm and young people present. I've started a new file so the minutes of this and future SPEC meetings will be available at the NCC office. The idea of re-starting SPEC-Nanaimo branch was raised, and the new SPEC board appeared very open to some kind of a mutually beneficial arrangement whereby NCC could have a Vancouver base (at 2150 Maple) and SPEC-Nanaimo could make use of our Nanaimo office. The basement of the SPEC building also houses the Lille D'Easum Memmorial (nuclear issues) Library - which will be a great research asset if we ever get our "made-In-BC" review. (Lille was almost singlehandedly responsible for educating many of the older VOW members, including Irene Abbey - who also has a pretty impressive nuclear library of about 200 books - about the dangers of nuclear power.) Please contact Ivan or Norm to make suggestions or help develop this proposal. The SPEC building is open from 10 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday. Drop by and say hello if you're in Vancouver! SPEC Society Promoting Environmental Conservation 2150 Maple Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 3T3 phone (604) 736-SPEC fax: (604) 736-7115 e-mail, web: http://www.alternatives.com/spec/index.html NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Suite 2, 85 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, B.C. Canada, V9R 5G3 Ph/Fax (250)741-1662...convert@nanaimo.ark.com *** HELP STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT *** http://www.nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ From ???@??? Wed Jan 08 22:52:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.20] [198.53.172.20] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0vi6cz-0006b9C for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:45 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: ECONEWS January '97 X-UIDL: 8592b2de661f9adbd9a19bc9ebc6293f ECONEWS No. 57 Serving Vancouver Island's Environmental Community JANUARY 1997 A BLIZZARD OF SELF-ORGANIZING NEIGHBOURHOODS One of the most rewarding aspects of the recent blizzard, while acknowledging the damage and the losses, was the way in which we self-organized ourselves on our streets and in our neighbourhoods. The government wasn't there - and in its place, a natural instinct for mutual self-help emerged. Good government is essential : at its best, it expresses the same spirit of mutual self-help. When not at its best, (which can be often) it becomes an obstacle to community self-organizing, instead of a support. Bureaucracies become self-important, and begin to think they are "in charge", resenting intrusion by 'the public'. Instead of the experience of "we" which happens at the local level, it becomes an experience of "them". What would happen if we took self-organization a small step further ? There will be other crises, whether earthquake or flood, food crisis or economic collapse. When a collective crisis really hits, it is at the street and neighbourhood level that we need to respond. It is at this level that we know each other personally, and can reach each other on foot. For a start, each street or block could create its own Directory, listing its residents by name and phone number, showing the skills, equipment, interests and enthusiasms that we share. In the old days, we would have known all this simply by hanging out on the street. Today, we have to build this knowledge from scratch. By building a foundation of shared knowledge, and getting to know each other's names and interests, we also get to trust each other (and to know who cannot be trusted). We are building the social web, the primary basis of relationship outside the family. From that web, a thousand things can happen. Without it, a street can be very vulnerable. In the blizzard, on some streets the web grew quickly, and everyone worked together to clear people's roofs, unblock drains and make sure everyone was ok. On others, not even footpaths were cleared, except to people's own houses. The instinct to work together is there in all of us, but it takes leadership and organizing to bring it out. This simple thing, working together to help each other, can be the basis of a whole new way of life, transforming communities. We can apply it to growing food together, overcoming poverty, tackling unemployment, local traffic calming, even designing whole new neighbourhood centres, so that we can walk to our local stores and not be trapped in the suburbs, as many were after Christmas. Self-organizing is a huge political principle, for which the government and welfare state are no substitute. When the little town of Bonaparte, Iowa (pop'n 450) lost its only shop, and saw its life collapsing, the people got together, raised the money among themselves, and re-opened the shop as a community business. From that point on, they have gone from strength to strength. In the Swedish village of Husa, when the population fell from 900 to 90 after the copper mine closed down, the village shop closed, and the school was under threat. But the citizens rallied round, writing and presenting a play about their village's history, which was a great success. From that, they went on to persuade the shopkeeper to re-open his shop and since 1979, they have created no less than 15 different co-operatives and associations, to tackle various social, economic and recreational projects. They even bought the mountainside where the copper mine used to be to establish a community-owned ski-lift, with 4 pistes, a restaurant and chalets. Much of the work is done by their own voluntary effort. In the Stockyards, a declining urban blue collar low-income neighbourhood in Cleveland, Ohio, where unemployment is twice the national average, a community development society has launched an initiative to get computer ownership into 35% of the households, jumpstarting the local culture into the '90s. By obtaining recycled computers, and setting up a buyers club for low income families, they are already part way there after just a year. There are 1,000 similar tales to be told, where communities are self-organizing themselves. It is one of the oldest principles of nature, if not the oldest - so we ignore it at our peril. The difficult message we have to get used to is that because of our social and ecological screw-ups, the 21st century will see many more such crises, not fewer. The turbulences of climate change will bring us storms, droughts, floods, heatwaves and freeze-ups. The coming food crisis will bring an urgent need to grow more food locally. The imminent collapse of antibiotics will bring a huge health crisis. The real lesson of the blizzard is that our strength is not in government, but in ourselves : government's role must be to help us to self-organize better. There is a joy in self-organizing. We saw it on the streets in the smiles, the lifts willingly shared. Barriers came down, and hands reached out. We should build on this experience for the future - not forget it as soon as the snow is gone. Guy Dauncey "NEVER DOUBT THAT A SMALL GROUP OF THOUGHTFUL, CONCERNED CITIZENS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. INDEED, IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT EVER HAS." Margaret Mead ECONEWS Welcome to 1997 ! And another wonderful year, where opportunities sit like flowers in an alpine meadow, waiting to burst into colour. So many hopes to be expressed, so many visions to be fulfilled. EcoNews is published every month as a gift to the Vancouver Island community, funded by donations from readers like you. Nov Dec Jan Circulation: 2000 2000 2000 Cost: $700 $757 $720 Donations: $405 $2,323 ? ? ? Advertising $25 $25 Balance: $213 $1804 Development Fund $180 Look at this response ! You've all been so incredibly generous, and said so many kind things. I'm sorry I can't thank you all personally. Many thanks to Maria Stewart, Jason LeSage, Jean McKenzie, Peter Schofield, Fran Thoburn, Valerie Torontow, Al Lubowski, Murray Sutherland, Gil Parker, Dorothy Bishop, Kay Look, Audrey Woodward, Margaret Fear, Coastal Connections, Dave and Debbie Secco, Alan Greatbatch, Brian Lupton, Judith Cullington, Blaise Salmon, Brad Andrews, Freda Knott, Diane Angus, Chris Garrett, Craig Harrold, Ken Wardroper, John Azar, Moireen Philips, Bruce Torrie, Lois Sprague, Roger Pollard, Daphne Taylor, Gail Schacter, Deryck Thomson, Susan Gage, Eileen Sowerby, Ira Robinson, Bev Sawatsky, Sharon Hazelwood, Bill Moffat, Michael & Barbara Clague, Peter Schofield, Felix Lion, Tom Gore, Emma Faulkner, Brian Burchill, John Lammers, Sylvan Foreman, Doug Crow, Andrew van Iterson, Ann McDonald, Mallory Pred, Dr Elinor Powell, Colin Graham, Bill Wheeler, Henry & Margaret Schubart, Maurice Tozer, Mavis Gillie, Barbara Benoit, Nikki Basuk, Heather McAndrew, Laurence & Judith Fetter, Lynn Husted, Alan Dolan, Susan Day, Bob Mitchell, Ruth Masters, Monica Oldham, Robbie Andersen, Barbara Houston, Mark Whitear & Rosalie Beach, Bamfield Preservation & Development Society, Peggy Olsthoorn, Ann Gower, Gail Schultz, Brian & Peggy Dallamore, James Whiteaker, Vivian Chenard, Laurie McBride, Bis Whitby, Hal Knight, Don Shaw, Steven New, Mary-Wynne Ashford, SAGE Foundation, Greg & Sharon Foster, Kathleen Gibson, Art & Marg Simons, Dan Harper, Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, and Tom Read, in LA. To receive EcoNews by mail call 592-4473. To receive it by light, email gdauncey@islandnet.com To make a donation, send a cheque to EcoNews, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria V8R 2P6. TOP TEN GOALS FOR THE YEAR 2000 Denmark has set the goal that 20% of all of its farm produce will be organic by the year 2000. Finland has determined that 25% of its commuting trips will be by bike. Britain has given $100 million to fund a massive Earth Centre on the site of an old coal mine as a centre for sustainable living. Why are we seemingly asleep? To greet the new year, here are EcoNews' Top Ten Goals for the Year 2000 for Vancouver Island : 10. 10% of all Island timber to be grown according to the Forest Stewardship Council's ecocertification standards. 9. 50% of all our garbage to be recycled. 8. 20% of all our commute trips on the Island to be done by bike or on foot. 7. 10% of all new developments to be planned along ecovillage and ecotown principles, as an alternative to sprawl. 6. 50% of local OCPs to enshrine blue and green spaces protection. 5. 10% of all food grown on the Island to be grown organically. 4. 10% of all our personal investments to be invested in socially responsible funds. 3. 20% of our streets to have local Street Committees to help us self-organize. 2. The E & N Railway to be running as a thriving tourist & commuter route. 1. 100% of all school-leavers to be required to do a month's community or environmental service as a pre-condition of receiving their high school diplomas. LIVING WITHOUT GARBAGE Roger Smeeth has been having an interesting discussion with Victoria's City Hall lately. He says that since he generates no garbage, he should be removed from the garbage collection service, and the $120 a year utility billing for the service. City Hall has been supportive, but ultimately they say that garbage collection is require by law - if they started letting some people off it might encourage others to dump their garbage in the creek. Currently, Roger has 17 categories of recyclables at his 1818 Leighton Road nest : All foodwastes for composting (bones are buried or burned) 5 different categories of paper & card 6 different types of plastic for collection by Chris Mowat (642-3530) (excluding type 3 PVC which is an ecological no-no) Steel and aluminum, including bottle caps All glass, except broken glass Batteries Discarded clothes & household equipment. Roger takes the remainder, a single bag of miscellaneous non-recyclables, directly to Hartland Road once a year. Here's to a local hero ! WHO IS YOUR LOCAL CRD DIRECTOR ? These elected mayors and councillors are responsible for making regional decisions about our environment, planning, transportation, health services and a host of other things. Cut this list out, and keep it : it's your key to involvement in our local democracy : Don Amos (Sidney) 652-6290 John Bergbusch (Colwood) 474-5619 Diane Bernard (Sooke) Denise Blackwell (Langford) Kellie Booth (Salt Spring) Bill Camden (View Royal) 380-0500 Jacques Campbell (Outer Gulf) Chris Causton (Oak Bay) 595-4543 Bob Cross (Victoria) 478-6127 John Garrison (Saanich) Wayne Hunter (Central Saanich) James King (Esquimalt) Frank Leonard (Saanich) 479-6710 David Mclean (Victoria) 598-4432 Bob McMinn (Highlands) 478-4403 Linda Michaluk (North Saanich) 656-4144 Carol Pickup (Saanich) 382-6424 John Ranns (Metchosin) 478-3446 Larry West (Langford electoral) 478-2759 Ray Williams (Saanich) 658-5647 Geoff Young (Victoria) 388-7875 You can write to them all at CRD, PO Box 1000, Victoria V8W 2S6, and fax them at 360-3130. FERRARA - THE CYCLING CAPITAL OF ITALY The City of Ferrara, on the river Po, has 100,000 bicycles for its 135,000 inhabitants. There are 33km of cycle tracks, and cars are banned completely from several streets. There are special bike stoplights, even ride-in phone-booths where you can make a call without dismounting. The 'bici-buses' have large luggage compartments designed to store bicycles, and there are plans for a network of cycle lanes leading out to the surrounding villages. Farrarans love to cycle - 30% of all trips are made by bike. 20% are made on foot, 14% by public transport and just over 33% by car. The area is completely flat, and Ferrara is the poorest town in the region, so many people have not been tempted to splash out on cars. Now, as many towns and cities are tripping over their wealth, Ferrarans are appreciating the virtues of two-wheeled simplicity. (European) Mediated agreements save time, money, & your work and personal relationships PATRICIA LANE Lawyer*/Mediator 598-3992 *Law Corporation $4,000 IN PRIZES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS Are you a post-secondary student with a keen inventive mind and a concern for the future of the environment ? The Canadian Intellectual Property Office, in conjunction with the tri-university service known as PATSCAN, is offering prizes of $1,000, $600 and $400 for college, undergraduate and postgraduate students who come up with the best innovative solutions to environmental challengers - and a further $500 prize for the best recycling concept. You are encouraged to research patents to review the novelty of your innovation (with help from PATSCAN), and the deadline for entries is Feb 28th 1997. The top finalists will be judged by a panel of technology transfer professionals, and the winners will be announced in March. Don't worry - you'll get full confidentiality for your innovation until it is patented. For details, call Ron Simmer at PATSCAN on 822-5404 (rsimmer@unixg.ubc.ca). Good luck ! THE WORLD MICROCREDIT SUMMIT What happens when you think about world poverty, and the millions of women, men and children who live in the most wretched conditions barely finding enough to eat each day ? If you have not yet learnt to push the thought away into the part of the brain that is used for storing things that are 'hopeless' or 'impossible', you probably feel an oppressively heavy weight at the burden of pain so many of our fellow people live with on our planet. 'World hunger' has always seemed so huge a problem, without solutions. Not so, however, and one of the most imaginative solutions that has been found this century, microcredit, is about to have its first major world conference in New York, Feb 2nd - 4th. Blaise Salmon, a Victoria investment adviser and EcoNews reader, is helping to organize the summit through a group he belongs to, called RESULTS. Microcredit schemes allow the very poorest of the poor to obtain loans as small as $30 to help them develop microenterprises, and lift themselves out of poverty. From its birth in Bangladesh with the Grameen bank, microcredit now reaches more than 2 million poor women, with a repayment rate above 97%. The goal of the Summit is for microcredit to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families by 2005 (5 million in industrialized countries). You can help by mailing the enclosed postcard to Jean Chretien, encouraging him to attend the Summit. And if you want to learn more, or give further help, call Blaise at 384-1842. More on RESULTS in the future. GARRY OAKS IN SAANICH Can you help the Garry Oak Society with their inventory of Garry Oak trees in Saanich ? They need 20 volunteers who would be willing to walk the streets this spring and summer, and record the oaks on a map. Call Paul Gareau, 592-9089. FOREST ACTION ALERTS The Sierra Club of BC has started sending out monthly Forest Action Alerts to help you protect the province's ancient forests, fish and wildlife. The action needs one letter a month. To receive the Alerts, call the Sierra Club on 386-5255. THE PEACE OF THE WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of the wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water and I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry ACTION OF THE MONTH : "VIRT" No, it's not the latest musical to hit town. Would that it were ! It might be more fun. It stands for the Vancouver Island Resource Targets plan, and that is 'resources' as in 'logging'. It's the Master Land-Use Plan for crown lands on the Island. Hey - how did that happen ? VIRT is the offspring of CORE, but whereas CORE was a very participatory process, VIRT has been devilishly backroomish. The VIRT team will have a new draft plan ready in January, and is moving straight to the final version for Cabinet approval, with no public process. So what's in it ? VIRT proposes 3 types of forest zone for the Island (think of it like urban zoning, but without any Public hearings for zoning changes). 50% of the forest has been designated High Intensity Area (HIA), with a relaxed Forest Practices Code. HIAs are intensive logging zones where other values are secondary. Only 8% has been designated Low Intensity Area (LIA), 20% of which has already been clearcut from top to bottom, including Mt Paxton. Only 13% of the Island is protected - 6.6% of the original ancient forest. In CORE, LIAs were supposed to be 'vanguard areas' for ecosystem management, but that's all being backtracked, with virtually no provisions to protect wildlife habitat, or strategies to protect threatened species such as the marbled murrelet. The rest of the Island is designated as GFA, or General Forestry Area. Tourism and recreational values have hardly been considered. One of the stated objectives of the plan is "to substantially increase the supply of timber from scenic areas". Maybe they figure if they cut enough, it'll no longer be scenic, and then they can take the lot. There's only the bare minimum of fish habitat protection. So what's to do ? It's time to bring out all the saucepans, and make a big noise. We've been shafted, and it's almost too late. Action : Call, fax or write immediately to Paul Ramsey, Minister of Environment (387-1187, fax 387-1356) and David Zirnhelt, Minister of Forests (387-6240, fax 387-1040). Outside Victoria, Enquiry BC (1-800-663-7867) will connect you for free. Tell them the plan is just not acceptable, and ask that the final draft be delayed until you've had a chance to comment. You can also call Rudi Mayser (751-7130) and ask to attend the January meeting of VIRT. For more information call the Sierra Club 386-5255. Let's go ! THE GREEN DIARY JANUARY 1997 Thur 9th, 7pm Winter Gardening Workshop Series starts in the restored barn at Point Ellice House, Pleasant St (off Bay). Part 1 - Understanding the Basics for a Healthy Garden. $20 ($75 for full series). Carolyn, 592-4472. Sun 12th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club Mt Washington Cross-Country Skiing. Call Kent, 758-9871 Sun 12th, 9-3pm Mount Tolmie Broom Bash, rain or shine (or snow!). Follow the flagging tape to the work area. 595-7270 Sun 12th, 1pm CRD Parks Cedar Grove Hike. Meet Roche Cove Regional Park parking lot, off Gillsepie Rd, East Sooke Mon Jan 13th, 8am 'Redefining Progress in British Columbia', with Ted Halstead, who is behind the new 'Genuine Progress Indicators' project in California. Moderated by Kevin Evans (CBC). $45, at the Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside, 1133 West Hastings St, Vancouver. Call 878-0623 for details. Wed 15th, 7:30pm Grizzly Bear management and protection. Westland, TV4 KNOW. Thur 16th, 7pm Winter Gardening Workshop Series, Part 2 - Plant Propagation Made Easy. See Thur 9th above. Sat 18th, 9:30am 'Stones n'bones' (8-13 yrs) What lies in a midden ? Pre-register $15 478-3344. Francis King Reg Park Sat 18th, 12pm Goldstream Park Eagles Extravaganza. Slide show on hawks and eagles. At the Visitor Centre. All ages. Sun 19th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club hike to Mount Richards, nr Crofton. Call Diana, 746-6659 Sun 19th, 9-3pm Mount Tolmie Broom Bash, rain or shine (or snow!). Follow the flagging tape to the work area. 595-7270 Sum 19th, 12pm Goldstream Park Eagles Extravaganza. Slide show on life and times of a nesting raptor. Visitor Centre. Sun 19th, 1pm CRD Parks hike to the top of Lone Tree Hill. Meet at the parking lot on Millstream Rd, in the Highlands. Thur 23rd, 7pm Winter Gardening Workshop Series, Part 3 - Garden Design for Year Round Interest. See Thur 9th above. Sat 25th, 10-2pm 'Will-derness to Survive' - basic outdoor survival skills, Francis King Reg Park. Preregister $8. 478-3344 Sat 25th, 12pm Goldstream Park Eagles Extravaganza. Victoria Falconry Association presentation. Visitor Centre. All ages. Sat 25th, 12pm 'Fly Away Home', Cinecenta. Gorgeous film about orphan goslings learning to fly. Also Sun 26th. Sun 26th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club hike to Mount Tzouhalem. Call Dan, 753-0629 Sun 26th, 9-3pm Mount Tolmie Broom Bash, rain or shine (or snow!). Follow the flagging tape to the work area. 595-7270 Sun 26th, 1pm Christmas Hill Broom Sweep. Meet parking lot near Nature House, 3873 Swan Lake Rd. 479-0211 Sun 26th, 1pm Plant mythology, magic & medicinal uses. CRD Parks, Francis King Reg Park nature house, Munn Rd. Sun 26th, 9am Somenos Marsh wildlife viewing tour. Meet Boatland Building, just north of Duncan. 746-8383 Wed 29th 7:30 EcoNews Dessert Potluck Mailout Party, 2069 Kings Rd Oak Bay. Everyone welcome ! 592-4473 Thur 30th, 7pm Winter Gardening Workshop Series, Part 4 - The Abundant Food Garden for a Four Season Harvest. Fri 31st - Sat 1st World Community Film Festival, Sid Williams Theatre, Courtenay. Over 35 films. Festival Bazaar with more than 30 community groups and NGOs. Call Wayne Bradley, 337-5412 wbradley@mars.ark.com Sat Feb 1st, 8pm Premiere showing of Spirit of the Drum by Victoria filmmaker Bill Weaver, followed by a dance to the beat of Island Rhythm, from Cortes Island, led by Gordy Ryan. White Eagle Hall, 90 Dock St, Victoria. Admission $10. Call 386-3182 for details. Sun Feb 2nd East Vancouver Island Sierra Club cross country skiing, NW Bay area. Call Inge, 246-9184 Coming up in 1997 : Feb 2nd - 4th World Microcredit Summit, in Washington (see inside). Fri Feb 14th Victoria Car Share Cooperative Launch in James Bay. Details from Kathryn Molloy, 995-0265. Sat Feb 15th Seedy Saturday - Victoria's celebration of seeds and all things green, with a special emphasis on the greening of local schoolgrounds. South Park School, James Bay. Call Carolyn Herriot on 592-4472 if you'd like to volunteer. March 17th - 21st Herb Hammond leads a 5-day workshop on 'Using Ecological Economics to make Practical Economic Forest Plans'. In Victoria, $550. For details, mail Silva Forest Foundation, PO Box 9, Slocan Park, BC V0G 2E0 April 29th - May 2nd 'From Carbon Cycle to Bicycle - Sharing Responsibility for Climate Change'. Univ Centre, Victoria. Major international conference organized by the Skies Above Foundation, 477-0555. May 4th - 9th 'Voluntary Simplicity' at Hollyhock, Cortes, with Mark Burch. $375 + meals & accom. 1 (800) 933-6339 May 22-25th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Food Systems, Toronto. Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3. June The Other Economic Summit (TOES '97) 'Working Alternatives: A World That Works', Denver, Colorado.Details : TOES, Suite 3C, 777 United Nations Plaza NY, NY 10017. TOES97@igc.apc.org http://pender.ee.upenn.edu/~rabii/toes/. For ten years, TOES has created an alternative to the G7 Summit. Aug 15th - 19th 26th Annual Conference of North American Ass'n for Environmental Education, in Vancouver. 'Weaving Connections : Cultures and Environments'. For details, call Ric Kool, 356-2077. EcoNews, Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6 Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 gdauncey@islandnet.com Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Sat Jan 25 01:46:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-33.islandnet.com [198.53.172.33] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0vo4ew-0006bTC for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 01:44:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 01:44:26 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com,emerald@IslandNet.com,yacinfo@mars.ark.com,impulse@islandnet.com,sierra@web.apc.org,skies@islandnet.com From: The Combat Zone (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Atmosphere-- Greenhouse Defect X-UIDL: f8ba809e77cd8ece7e2f24a24cce7f47 Under the principle "Know thy enemy", i present the following... Al Rycroft Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA Fax available: (250) 592-8307 Alan, 595-7955 Kealey Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald -------------------------------------------------------------------- [*********PNEWS CONFERENCES************] From: Harvey Rosetti [harvey.rosetti@f150.n101.z1.fidonet.org] Forwarded from: [upstream@cycad.com] THE GREENHOUSE DEFECT The media has warned us that we are facing global cataclysm unless we stop our gluttonous fuel consumption. However, the sources which pro- ponents of this theory cite for information are some of the most incredible ever seen in the field of "science." By John Guzzetta There is a rage currently sweeping the magazines, radio, and tele- vision of this country: that the fossil-fuel using millions are des- troying the environment. While it is true that gluttonous over-consumption of a few gone totally unchecked leads to the pollution of all of our environmental heritage, alarmists have overstated the problem. As is often the case, the American public has been misled and even lied to outright in the name of a radically conceived correctness, many now believing that driving their car to work is contributing to the destruction of the planet. The prophets of this message of global cataclysm are a few radical nihilist Greens, modern day Luddites seeking not the reform of modern day societal practices, but the obliteration of society itself through an environmental crusade. Current trendy theory states the notion that CO2, whose presence in the atmosphere is artificially raised in leaps and bounds by decades of gluttonous fuel consumption, is trapping the sun's energy and holding it to the surface of the Earth. This so-called Greenhouse effect has supposedly caused a warming of the Earth's atmosphere to the extent that consequences in the foreseeable future will include mega-hurricanes that make Andrew look like a gentle breeze, the expansion of deserts, the melting of the glaciers and resultant drowning of valuable property. Some scientists have stated that this warming has already gotten to the point that damage is irreversible-- that we meddling humans are already beginning to fry in our own grease. The world has certainly responded vigorously to this perceived holocaust. At the 1992 Eco-summit in Rio de Janeiro, leaders signed a treaty which states that global warming is a problem, and that the UN will soon decide how to implement and enforce a greenhouse treaty. The Clinton administration has "promised" to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. U.S. Representatives have rode the crest of appearing to be concerned about the environment, including current Vice President Al Gore. The list goes on. Well, it is probably true that levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere are higher today than they were during pre-industrialization times. But a reality check of the actual terms of the problem confirms that the scare is based upon shaky or nonexistent evidence. First of all, data used to support this analysis is bogus. It is useful to quote at length from Insight magazine here, August 2, 1993. "By carefully picking and choosing their [greenhouse effect proponents] data, they selectively threw out any piece of evidence that did not fit their puzzle. G. S. Callendar, one of the fathers of the modern green- house theory, paved the way for this technique in the 1950's, when he ignored 16 of the 26 measurements of CO2 from the 19th century that were above his figure of 292 ppm. And modern scientists... at Mauna Loa Ob- servatory... rejected some 80% of their CO2 measurements and fabricating the data for 17% more to come up with a trend of rising CO2 values." Greenhouse alarmists "report" that CO2 was at 270ppm in the 19th century, and 360ppm today. Assume that despite these liars, an increase of significant proportion has occurred. Shouldn't we be sweating more? As it turns out, the thousands of weather recording stations all around the globe simply do not show any trend of warming, not in 100 years of temperature recording history. Global mean temperature over the past 50 years has risen by no more than one half of one degree Celsius, and even that much is disputed. Even NASA's weather satellites have come up with nothing. The two scientists responsible for examining the data, Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. J. R. Christy, reported in Science magazine March 1990 that "There is no obvious long-term trend, and ano- malies during the first five years nearly balance those during the last 5 years." Simply put, there has been no significant rise in temperature to point to any global warming. Additionally, the readings of CO2 in the atmosphere rarely fluctuate with the same pattern as temperature. And not to excuse polluters, but nature has far outpaced man as a CO2 producer. Dr. Dixie Lee Ray, Former Atomic Energy Commission Chair- woman and Governor of Washington State, says that "all of the air pollu- tants produced by man since the beginning of the industrial revolution do not begin to equal the quantities of toxic materials, aerosols, and particulates spewed into the air from just three volcanoes: Krakatoa in 1883, Mount Katmai in 1912, and Hekla in 1947." Volcanoes emit tons of sulphur and CO2, the reputed greenhouse gases, when they erupt. Insight magazine also reports that "of the estimated 213 gigatons of CO2 snorted into the air each year, man's activities account for a measly 7gt-- leaving 206gt from natural sources." In fact, termite farts take an incredible toll, by the Greens standards. Science Digest, February 1993 reported that "an international team of researchers has discovered that termites generate more than twice the CO2 that fuel burning does." Essentially, reports based upon nothing but emotion-- totally devoid of fact--have shaped the policy toward the environment of the UN and the world governments. The faux scientists who draw up these re- ports have been caught saying such revealing things as Dr. Stephen Schneider, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose com- puter generated climate models have been described by many as grossly inaccurate. (One such similar "leading' climate model produced by the British Meteorological Office shows similar amounts of mid-summer rain falling in the middle of the Sahara desert and in notoriously wet Ire- land and Scotland" The New American, June 1, 1992. These and other computer models were used extensively to bolster current greenhouse treaties.) Dr. Schneider told Discover magazine that he and his fellow "scientists" "... have to offer scary scenarios, make simplified, dra- matic statements, and make little mention of the doubts we have." This all points to a common theme in governmental policy. While a Gallup poll reports that only 19% of professional climatologists and meteorologists believe that any warming is human caused, and many scientists are urging and engaging in debate, politicians and activists are forcing plans to tax energy usage and impose still more controls. In other words, the greenhouse scare is nothing more than a hoax concocted to worry the public, appeal to their sensibilities by outright lies, and subsequently secure their backing to push their own radical programs. And the media has helped them. Now none of this is to say that we shouldn't curb some of growth's harmful side effects-- certainly we should be quick to act against passionless despoilers. But this underhanded activism undermines real problems by misappropriating funds, time, and the public's senses. The morale of the story is to know those that are at the moral center of such spacy movements. A few tidbits of the wisdom from those central figures are quoted here: David M. Graber of the National Park Service: "Until such a time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." Sierra Club founder John Muir: "Honorable representatives of the great saurians of older creation, may you long enjoy your lilies and rushes, and be blessed now and then with a mouthful of terror stricken man." (praying to alligators) World Wildlife Fund leader Prince Phillip of England to the UN in 1990: he wished to be reincarnated as "a killer virus to lower popula- tion levels." David Forman, leader of the pseudo-terrorist group Earth First!: "It may well take our extinction to set things straight." Are these obviously biased people those whom we should follow blindly, or even take seriously? ----------------- via PNEWS http://www.applicom.com/pnews From ???@??? Sat Jan 25 22:39:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: from maelstrom.stjohns.edu [149.68.1.24] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0voIyk-0006cMC for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from maelstrom.stjohns.edu by maelstrom.stjohns.edu (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.5F1D3A0A@maelstrom.stjohns.edu>; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:04:01 -1300 Received: from SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU by SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 9038 for PNEWS-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:01:49 -0500 Received: from SJUVM (NJE origin SMTP@SJUVM) by SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9031; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 19:57:57 -0500 Received: from tesla.netline.net by SJUVM.stjohns.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Sat, 25 Jan 97 19:57:54 EST Received: (from odin@localhost) by tesla.netline.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA25144; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:00:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Approved-By: The Combat Zone Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:00:24 -0500 Reply-To: Hank Roth's PNEWS CONFERENCES Sender: Hank Roth's PNEWS CONFERENCES From: The Combat Zone Subject: PNEWS: The Greenhouse Gases To: Multiple recipients of list PNEWS-L X-UIDL: 4c68314ce0d712b80f6892179f578d29 [*********PNEWS CONFERENCES************] From: Deborah "wild-womyn" Zaccone The greenhouse gases. ( EPA Journal ) Since human activities first began significantly influencing the atmosphere during the industrial revolution 200 years ago, sources and emissions of Greenhouse gases have steadily increased. today, scientists are especially concerned that recent increases in the amount of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may cause global warming in the future, altering the Earth's climate. These sources of Greenhouse gases are so numerous and diverse that no single source contributes more than a tiny fraction of total emissions. Similarly, no single country contributes more than a fraction of emissions. Unlike other environmental poblems that EPA could address with the stroke of a regulation, potential climate change is a problem that needs innovative global solutions. Future trends of emissions will depend on a wide range of factors, from population and economic growth to technological development and policies to reduce emissions. Past trends and projected future trends show that all countries have been producing Greenhouse gases at a growing rate, and many countries will continue to do so for years to come. Based on careful study of the sources and trends of greenhouse emissions around the globe, countries can begin implementing prudent measures for slowing down emissions while increasing economic development. Sources Recent increases in these Greenhouse gases result mainly from expanded energy use, agricultural practices, and population growth. The most important Greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO[sub 2]), methane (CH[sub 4]), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrous oxide (N[sub 2]O). In assessing the importance of these gases, scientists look at three characteristcs: the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere, the ability of the gas to block infra-red radiation and thus trap heat in the manner of a greenhouse, and the lifetime of the gas in the atmosphere. Some gases remain in the atmosphere for short periods of time, but other gases, such as CFCs, may remain there for several hundre years. Some gases are much better at blocking radiation than others. For example, molecule by molecule, CFCs are 10,000 times better at blocking radiation than CO[sub 2], but there are 35,00 times more CO[sub 2] than CFCs in the atmosphere. By weighing these factors, scientists can determine how much each of these gases contributes the Greenhouse Effect. CO[sub 2], the most abundant Greenhouse gas, is responsible for approximately half of man-made contributions to the Greenhouse Effect. Since the industrial revolution, the concentration of CO[sub 2] in the atmosphere has increased 25 percent and continues to increase at a rate of 0 percnt per year. fossil-fuel combustion and deforestation are the primary sources of this increase in atmospheric CO[sub 2]. Methane in the atmosphere has more than doubled in the past 300 years and is currently responsible for about 18 percent of man-made contributions to the Greenhouse Effect. Agricultural sources, particularly rice cultivation and animal husbandry, have probably been the most significant contributors to recent increases in methane oncentrations. Methane emissions from landfills, coal seams, melting permafrost, natural gas exploration and pipeline leakage, and biomass burning associated with deforestation are also important sources. Total methane emissions are increasing a rate of 1 percent per year. CFCs contribute about 14 percent of man-made contributions to the Greenhouse Effect. Unlike other Greenhouse gases that have always been in the atmosphere. CFCs only recently appeared in the Earth's atmosphere when scientists began manufacturing these compounds in the 1930s. They are used for a variety of industrial purposes--as propellants in aerosol cans, refrigerants in air conditioners and refrigerators, and cleaning solvents, for example. CFCs are not nearly as abundant as CO[sub 2], but these compounds are much more powerful as a Greenhouse gas, molecule by molecule, than Co[sub 2], and their concentrations are increasing rapidly: more than 4 percent since 1978. N[sub 2]O has increased in concentration by 5 to 10 percent in the past 200 years and is currently increasing at a rate of 0.25 percent per year. The cause of this increase is uncertain, but nitrogen-based fertilizers, land clearing biomass buring, and fossil-fuel combustion have all contributed. N[sub 2]O is over 200 times more powerful than CO[sub 2] as a Greenhouse gas and contributes about 6 percent of man-made contributions to the Greenhouse Effect. Future Trends The United States is responsible for the largest portion of man-made contributions to the Greenhouse Effect (21 percent), followed by the USSR (14 percent), European countries (14 percent), china (7 percent), Brazil (4 percent), India (4 percent), and the rest of the world (36 percent). The rate of Greenhouse-gas buildup during the next century will depend heavily on future pattersn of population and economic growth and technological development; these, in turn, are influenced by the policies of local, state, national, and international private and public institutions. k To assemble a better picture of how emissions may change in the future, EPA, in conjunction with other countries and the International Panel on Climate change, is assessing future energy plans of different countries and their implications for emissions of Greenhouse gases. The approach relies on information from individual countries evaluated in comparison to results obtained from large global economic models such as used in preparing EPA's recent draft report to Congress titled Policy Options for Stabilizing global climate. (See table for emissions projections for the year 2025). As with all attempts to forecast into the future, the results become less reliable the further the extend into the future; however, from the projections summarized in the table, a certain picture of the future emerges. The analysis suggests that global CO[sub 2] emissions will more than double by the year 2025 (5.24 to 12.18 billion tons per year) in the absence of specific government policies to reduce emissions. This estimate is higher than indicated in EPA's draft report to Congress; most individual countries tend to be optimistic about their future use of energy and do not consider global constraints. The developed countries, currently the largest CO[sub 2] emitters, will grow in population at approximately 1.0 to 1.5 percent per year and are projected to emit 6.7 billion tons of carbon by the year 2025. Developed countries are likely to continue to emit more CO[sub 2] per person than developing countries. For example, the average citizen living in the United States produces six times more CO[sub 2] each year than average citizen in a developing countries, population and economic growth will lead to a substantial increase in CO[sub 2] emissions to over 5 billion tons per year, despite anticipated improvements in efficiency of energy use. Developing countries now contribute only a small fraction of Greenhouse gases, but their share of emissions is expected to increase significantly in the next 35 years. The table shows the share of CO[sub 2] emissions from Asia (including China), Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East increasing from slightly over one-fourth of the global total in 1985 to nearly one-half the total by 2025. Technologies developed in more industrialized nations to use energy efficiently could help developing nations reduce emissions as they continue to develop, but channels to transfer this technology must be developed. On a regional basis, energy use in Western European countries is projected to grow at a relatively slow rate because of low population growth and anticipated policies to be implemented over the next decade. Several countries, such as Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands, have already adopted policies to be implemented over the next decade. Several countries, such as Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands, have already adopted policies specifically to slow the growth rate of Greenhouse-gas emissions. These measures include special taxes, energy-efficiency programs, and promotion of nuclear energy, natural gas, and renewable energy sources. The case in Eastern Europe is quite different, largely because many of these countries are among the most energy intensive and most energy inefficient in the world. In Eastern Europe and the USSR, energy use and CO[sub 2] emissions are projected to grow considerably over the next 35 years, but policies of perestroika aimed at restructuring the economy and improving energy efficiency in the USSR could have a significant impact. If the economies of the USSR and Eastern Europe become more energy-efficient and move from heavy industrial production to production of less energy-intensive consumer goods, they may be able to increase economic growth and enjoy the added benefit of reduced Greenhouse-gas emissions. In response to these projected increases in emissions, many countries are seeking ways to limit the buildup of Greenhouse gases in a manner consistent with economic development and other environmental and social goals. The most common options for reducing Greenhouse-gas emissions involve reducing fossi-fuel consumption, researching alternative energy sources, switching to fuels that release less CO[sub 2], improving energy efficiency, and starting programs for reforestation. Countries are also looking at a broad range of possible policies including energy taxes, fuel - switching, information programs, economic incentives, and energy - efficiency standards and regulations that could result in low or declining emissions in the next 20 years. Many available technologies could substantially improve the energy efficiency of automobiles, buildings, and homes, but often require innovative programs to encourage their adoption. Renewable energy sources are also being researched, improved, and demonstrated as viable alternative to fossi fuels. These include solar energy, wind power, hydroelectric energy, wave energy and biomass energy. Other important options include reducing methane emissions from landfills, coal mines, and gas and oil facilities. The costs and benefits of implementings such programs are now the subject of extensive analysis by many governments. In the coming years, we must re-evaluate how emissions are likely to change. But given this preliminary picture of the future, it is important to take the next step of assessing the specific technologies and policy measures that can reduce emissions now at low costs. Each country will have to examine its unique situation and determine appropriate responses. However, only by acting together will the global community slow the trend toward high emissions in the next century. Projected Global CO[sub 2] Emisions Legend: A = Billion Tons Carbon 1985 B = Billion Tons Carbon 2025 C = Percentage Annual Growth D = Per-Capita CO[sub 2] Emissions[F*] (metric tons/yar) 2025 A B C D Developed 3.95 6.71 1.31 4.24 North America 1.46 2.37 1.23 6.50 Western Europe 0.77 1.11 0.91 2.63 Japan & Australia 0.34 0.63 1.53 2.65 Eastern Europe 1.38 2.60 1.60 5.02 Developing 1.29 5.47 3.91 0.80 Centrally Planned Asia 0.55 1.80 3.00 0.98 South & East Asia 0.28 1.55 4.41 0.50 Latin America 0.21 0.65 2.91 1.68 Africa 0.14 0.80 4.53 0.48 Middle East 0.11 0.67 4.72 1.91 Global 5.24 12.18 2.61 1.41 [F*] Per-capita CO[sub 2] emissions are calculated for each region based on projected CO[sub 2] emissions and population. Note: these projections assume no specific international agreements to reduce emissions. Greenhouse Gas Contributions to Global Warming (1980s) Nitrous Oxide (6%) Carbon Dioxide (49%) Methane (18%) Chlorofluocarbons (14%) Other Gases (13%) Regional Contribution to Global Warming United States (21%) USSR (14%) European Countries (14%) China (7%) Brazil (4%) India (4%) Rest of World (36%) ~~~~~~~~ by Richard D. Morgenstern and Dennis Tirpak HISTORICAL CONCENTRATIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES: HOW SCIENTISTS KNOW During the yearly thawing and refreezing in Greenland and the Antarctic, small pockets of air are trapped in the ice. Scientists drill into the Antarctic ice cap and extract air that was trapped in these pockets. Back in the laboratory, they analyze this air and determine what portions of the air are carbon dioxide. To determine the age of an air sample, scientists count the number of layers of ice to the depth they took the sample. Like tree rings, these yearly layers from the thawing and refreezing provide a good estimate of age. Scientist have drilled as deep as 2,000 meters and extracted air that was trapped as long as 163,000 years ago. With this information, scientists can compare pre-industrial concentrations of Greenhouse gases with today's concentrations. ****** EPA Journal is published by Environmental Protection Agency and is not copyrighted. Morgenstern, Richard-Tripak, Dennis, The greenhouse gases.., Vol. 16, EPA Journal, 03-01-1990, pp 8. ----------------------- via PNEWS http://www.applicom.com/pnews/ From ???@??? 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Regards, AL ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald PEACE ON EARTH. GOODWILL TO ALL. From ???@??? Sun Feb 02 22:29:31 1997 To: emerald From: jpalter@inforamp.net (by way of Howard Breen ) (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria--Cdn Env Protection Act 911 Cc: Bcc: engo victoria X-Attachments: ===================================================================== ACTION ALERT BILL C-74: THE PROPOSED CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (CEPA) WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW! On December 10, 1996, Bill C-74, a new CEPA, was introduced into the House of Commons. Bill C-74 does not provide comprehensive protection for the environment or human health. [See background information attached] We need your help to tell the Prime Minister, the Environment Minister, other ministers and your M.P. that CEPA must be improved. [See addresses attached] Help us strengthen Bill C-74 and respond to the industry campaign to weaken further it by writing your letters. Letters may be sent electronically from the CEPA website at http://www.web.net/cepa911 ===================================================================== Attachment Converted: C:\1NEW\ACTION.TXT Attachment Converted: C:\AL\PENDING\ACTION.TXT From ???@??? 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On December 10, 1996, Bill C-74, a new CEPA, was introduced into the House of Commons. Bill C-74 does not provide comprehensive protection for the environment or human health. [See background information attached] We need your help to tell the Prime Minister, the Environment Minister, other ministers and your M.P. that CEPA must be improved. [See addresses attached] Help us strengthen Bill C-74 and respond to the industry campaign to weaken further it by writing your letters. Letters may be sent electronically from the CEPA website at http://www.web.net/cepa911 ===================================================================== Attachment Converted: C:\1NEW\ACTION.TXT Attachment Converted: C:\AL\PENDING\ACTION.TXT ----- Kevin Pegg Crestline Computer Solutions Inc. From ???@??? Tue Jan 28 20:28:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.162] [198.53.172.219] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0vpNKu-0006cSC for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:53:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:53:08 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: ECONEWS Feb '97 X-UIDL: 0abc13050595abde0a72777c4df80fcf ECONEWS No. 58 Serving Vancouver Island's Environmental Community FEBRUARY 1997 FROM THE SOOKE HILLS, ONWARD TO PARADISE The Sooke Hills have been saved! The work of the past three years has paid off, and the champagne has been opened. All that remains now is for Ayum Creek to be protected, to complete the dream. To Ray Zimmerman, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee and so many others, the hills give many thanks, as do so many Victorians. Those hills will now be there for the deer, the bears, the wolves and cougars, the trees and wildflowers, and for ourselves. They will be there for our children to enjoy, and our children's children's children. Further to this, Victoria will gain great economic strength and benefit from this decision. This isn't normally an argument that holds much sway with naturalists and hikers, but it is an important one, that deserves due reflection. All over North America, populations are moving as people seek places to live and work where there is quality, nature, and a sense of peace. Life's not just about rushing, working, and dropping dead at 60. People need nature as much as the bears and cougars do : we are just as much creatures of nature as they, underneath our urban ways. By building a city which exists in harmony with nature we build a future whose people will hold and protect it with great joy - and for business, there is no better kind of stability than this. * So what would it take for the whole of Victoria to reflect the same harmony which can be found in the woods, and in special places like Beacon Hill Park and the Dallas Road cliffs ? How can we protect Victoria, and the western communities in particular, from falling into the scattered sameness that marks the sprawl of subdivisions all over North America ? What can we do, as a city, to create an urban form that will live up to the beauty of the hills to the west ? Amalgamate all the many municipalities and then start doing some proper regional planning on social and ecological lines, is one possible answer - but at the risk of losing the vibrant participation and local caretaking which are such positive features of our local democracies. Strengthen the existing regional planning legislation, to make it mandatory for municipalities to incorporate social and ecological criteria into their Official Community Plans and zoning bylaws, is another answer. Here are some of the new criteria which could help make Greater Victoria a match for the beauty of the Sooke Hills : * Create urban containment boundaries for the western communities, to ensure that there is a clear dividing line between urban and the rural, and the wild. * Strengthen existing neighbourhood centres around Seven Minute Walking Circles, so that people are able to walk to the local shops and businesses, and not feel they have to drive. Rezone the centres to encourage more housing, and more commercial activity. * Build new neighbourhood centres in the suburbs for the same reasons, to create a local sense of place, and belonging, and to turn the suburbs into living villages. * Build stronger local economies in Colwood, Langford, Metchosin, Sooke and the Highlands, so that residents do not need to commute so much, chewing up the city streets. * Accelerate the plans for a city-wide network of cycling and pedestrian greenways, taking money out of the road maintenance budgets to do so, so that it is easier to get around the city safely without using the busy roads. * Develop binding plans to reduce traffic in the region by 10% by 2005, with more support for transit, car sharing, telecommuting, cycling and pedestrian travel, to take up the slack. The city's car population is increasing at twice the speed of the human population, and if there is one thing that is destroying the social and environmental fabric of our city, it is the increased traffic. * Encourage local residents to set up associations on every street and block, so that they can organize great street parties, and turn their attentions to things like traffic calming, reducing their own car travel, sharing resources with each other, and helping and supporting each other, not just in emergencies, but every day. * Create much stronger protection for the city's existing trees, creeks, lakes and green spaces, and convert derelict green spaces into proper parks and urban wildernesses. What is a city ? A mess of busy, noisy streets which we crave to escape from, or a celebration of community, culture and art ? Now that our western boundary is secure, and will be a wilderness park for ever, we need to turn our attention to the city itself. With just a little care, Victoria could be a shining example of how city, business, people and nature can live in harmony. With just a little care. Guy Dauncey EcoNews is published every month as a gift to the Vancouver Island environmental community, funded by donations from readers like you. Dec Jan Feb Circulation: 2000 2000 2000 Cost: $757 $714 $715 Donations: $2,323 $515 ? ? ? Advertising $25 $25 Balance: $1804 $1630 Dev't Fund $180 $180 Many thanks to Sheila Drew, Marilee Goheen, Elly Roelofsen, Jenny Fraser, Valerie Douglas, Wayne Madden, Joanne Manley, Gail Schultz, Daphne Sidaway Wolf & Harald Wolf, LD Poyntz, MM Scandifio, Monica Oldham, Brian Grant, Bill Ashwell, Peter & Alison Gardner, Alan Philip, Pamela Charlesworth, Seymour Trieger, Benita Blundell and John Jervis. If you'd like to receive EcoNews by mail call 592-4473. By email, call . Your donations can be made to EcoNews, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria V8R 2P6. TAHSIS SMELLS REAL ! Julie Johnston writes : Tahsis is, by reputation, the rainiest corner of North America. I expected nothing but rain and dreariness. Tahsis is also, however, full of surprises and good news. In this geographically and psychologically remote village sits an elaborate recycling centre. In this community of pick-up trucks and 4 x 4s, a local artist creates works of art to support the salmon enhancement program. Local folks who care about their northwest coast environment know they have a voice on ecological and resource issues. Rain has not dampened the sense of stewardship among hunters, fishers, cavers, hikers, kayakers and other boaters. Artist Ava Haw, motivated by the shut down salmon fishery, created Adopt-a-fish. She sells her handpainted fish pillows to pay for cleaning up creeks, restoring spawning beds, and releasing 350,000 salmon fry each year. When citizens learned the landfill would be full by 2005, forcing taxes up, a full-blown German-style recycling centre was set up. A further environmental achievement is the Nootka Resource Board. A fledgling of the interministerial Land Use Coordinating Office, it was born to advise on local issues arising from the Vancouver Island Land Use Plan. The Board is committed to sustainable development : 'protecting and restoring the quality and integrity of the environment, and securing a sound and prosperous economy for present and future generations'. It is a broad-based community sounding board, with balanced representation from local governments, industry, social organizations, and economic, environmental, recreational and First Nations interests, from Tahsis and neighbouring communities. The government is counting on the board to be a credible official voice for local people on resource issues. It meets each month in a different spot, and welcomes public input. So each day in Tahsis I expect nothing more than rain and dreariness, but each day my new home town plays tricks on these expectations. The air is always freshly laundered in Tahsis - by the rain, the showers, the downpours, the storms, the deluges, the drizzles, the light sprinkles, the sleet, the snow, the winds, the clouds, the mists, the blue skies, the saltwater, the tides...with the faintest hint of hemlock, lumbered down at the sawmill. Tahsis smells real ! And with all the environmental success stories in this village, I have proof the people here want it to stay that way. Julie Johnston is a teacher with a special interest in deep ecology, simple living, and outdoor and environmental education. You can find her at (250) 564-5545. SEEDY SATURDAY On February 15th, Victoria's big Seedy Saturday takes place at South Park School in James Bay (see Diary), with many local seed and plant growers, a community seed swap table, and lots of fun. There will also be a special feature display called 'Towards a New Generation of Gardeners', showing how local schools are transforming their schoolgrounds into landscapes for learning and gardening projects. Details from Carolyn, 592-4472. RICH, CRUMBLY COMPOST Does the sight of rich, black compost thrill you to your roots ? The Master Composter Volunteer Training Program starts March 6th, over 4 evenings and 2 Saturday workshops. Sign-up is limited, so call the Compost Education Centre now for details. Tel 386-9676. ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE ! EARTH WEEK WRITING & ART PRIZES Earth Week is coming up in April, and the Vancouver Island Earth Works Society will be producing a calendar of events across the Island, as they have done so valiantly for the past seven years. Young people are invited to submit narrative, poems, cartoons and images imagining the steps that will be needed to create a better world by the year 2020, the 50th anniversary of EarthDay. 500 word limit; prizes in each category. Deadline March 21st, but the sooner the better. Volunteers are also needed to help produce the magazine, and Earth Week. Contact Doug Koch, Earthworks (250) 383-5765. http://www.islandnet.com/~views CARBON CYCLE TO BICYCLE Looking ahead to April 30th, Victoria's Skies Above Foundation is organizing a major international conference at UVic on global warming and climate change entitled 'From Carbon Cycle to Bicycle', with more than 40 speakers from BC and around the world. The focus will be on the loss of biomass in the oceans, forests, grasslands and wetlands, the impacts of global change on the carbon cycle, and the policies and initiatives which are needed to increase carbon sinks and reduce emissions. Canada's commitment is to reduce greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels - but B.C.'s 1994 emissions were 12% higher than the 1990 level, and still increasing, so we're heading in the wrong direction. Current logging practices make things worse by diminishing the carbon sink. This conference will be very large, so if you can volunteer to help in any way, before or during the conference, call Bruce Torrie, 477-0555. http://www.islandnet.com/~skies A ROAD TRAFFIC REDUCTION BILL Meanwhile in Britain, where frustration with excess traffic is reaching boiling point, the Road Traffic Reduction Bill, promoted by Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and Friends of the Earth, was to have received Second Reading on Jan 24th. If passed, it would require the Government to draw up plans to achieve a 5 per cent reduction in traffic miles by 2005, and 10 per cent by 2010, with reports to be issued and debated annually. The bill calls on municipalities and regions to draw up local measures for reducing traffic by encouraging cycling and walking and providing better public transport in their area. Over 220 MPs have said they will support the Bill, which has backing from 129 local authorities and over 500 local groups and associations. How about that, B.C. ? DIGITAL 8-TRACK STUDIO For demos and small projects. Best suited for solo artists or acoustic bands. Located on scenic Cadboro Bay in a comfortable and relaxed environment. Very reasonable rates. Call Hardie, 477-0555 IN MEMORIAM, BETH HILL Beth Hill, a friend to so many of us, and an active worker for so many ideas and ideals, died peacefully at 7pm on Friday Jan 24th on Salt Spring Island, at the age of 73. Beth lived her life like a bird in full flight, reveling in its challenges and delights. Every time you met her, she would be enthusing about some new idea or writer, or some issue she was pouring her energies into. In 1990, right after the communist regimes collapsed, she and Ray travelled by VW bus around Bulgaria, Romania and Greece, visiting old museums to research the golden neolithic age, writing an unpublished book called 'Journey to Atlantis'. When she knew her cancer was terminal, she and Ray moved back to Salt Spring, where they had lived for 29 years, so that she could help Ray plan the solar house he had always wanted to live in. Even when dying, her spirit was as exuberant as ever, her enthusiasm far overflowing the wilting frame that was her body. After saying a fond farewell to her friends, she used the 6 months remission her body gave her to write a whole book about her personal explorations of life, death and consciousness, which Marilyn Horsdal will be publishing soon. She was working on the footnotes when her body slipped into its final decline. Beth knew as certainly as she could that death was but a doorway, leading on to the next adventure. Beth was born in Ridgeway, Ontario, in 1924. After her degree, she worked as a librarian on the Alaska Highway, and then moved with Ray to Vancouver, where they had two children and then moved to Salt Spring. Their years there were interrupted only by a year in Northern Ireland and a year at Cambridge, where she obtained a Certificate in Prehistoric Archaeology. Back in B.C., Beth researched and wrote her various books on Indian petroglyphs, Frances Barkley, the Kettle Valley Railway, the Royal Engineers of B.C. and her much loved sailing books, UpCoast Summers and Seven-Knot Summers (Horsdal & Schubart). Supported always by Ray, Beth was a founder of Salt Spring Island Futures, an organizer of the Woodlands Association (dedicated to sustainable forestry and community forest ownership), and an active member of the Voice of Women, the Sierra Club, the Council of Canadians, the World federalists of Canada and the Skies Above Foundation. Beth's life was too full of amazement ever to be bored, too full of passion to be grey. So now we bid you farewell, dear friend, until we meet again. YOUR INVESTMENTS - ARE THEY ETHICAL ? It's February, and everyone is trying to sell us RRSPs and Mutual Funds. Before you jump, however, pause to think. In 1995, the 15 largest mutual funds in the USA all invested in tobacco, and other 'toxic' stocks. Nine of the 15 funds had tobacco in their top ten stock holdings - and the situation has not changed as of November 1996. Is this what you want to support ? This, and other activities that are harmful to our health and our children's future ? It is so easy to 'invest and forget' - but that's how so many bad things have happened in history. So what else can you do ? Lots. There are many socially responsible and ethical funds in Canada, including the Clean Environment Fund, Fonds Desjardins Enironnement, Dynamic Global Green, the Ethical Growth Fund, the Ethical Special Equity Fund, Investors Summa, the Crocus Fund, First Ontario, BC's Working Opportunities, and Working Ventures. In terms of performance, The Domini Social Inxed, which tracks 400 socially screened stocks, has consistently outperformed the S & P 500 since 1990. The Canadian non-profit Social Investment Organization (SIO) is running a campaign called '10% For Change', appealing to investors to shift just 10% of their portfolio over to some of Canada's 19 ethical funds. For more information on the campaign, contact the SIO at #443, 366 Adelaide St E., Toronto, ON M5A 3X9. (416) 360-6047 sio@web.net You can also call 1-900-830-4SRI Show this story to your broker, and talk to him or her about it. It could be a move you will feel very good about. ISLAND FORESTRY UPDATE On Jan 17th, the Sierra Club organized a meeting of people from many environmental organizations on the Island to discuss the Vancouver Island Resource Targets Plan (VIRT), which most groups agreed to reject because of the following fundamental flaws : * It will not lead to ecologically sustainable forestry or a sustainable economic future for the Island's forests and communities. * The process was not public, violating the Provincial government's commitment in the approved Land Use Charter. * VIRT's starting point was all wrong. Instead of determining how to develop ecologically sustainable forestry on the Island, it set out to zone the Island for an AAC higher than the long run sustainable yield, and far higher than the environmental community believes to be ecologically sustainable. * The medium to long-term consequences of VIRT will be degraded ecosystems, failing economies and weakened communities. If you want to be involved with the campaign, call the Sierra Club, 386-5255. SIMPLE LIVING SUITE FOR RENT 2 Bedrooms Unfurnished. Handy Location. NS/NP. March 1st, $630. Call 595-5460 ACTIONS OF THE MONTH (1) AYUM CREEK The Sooke Hills are saved ! But the vision of a Sea-to-Sea Greenbelt will not be complete unless Ayum Creek, where the waters of the hills flow into Sooke Basin, on either side of Highway 14, is also saved. The creek and the estuary abound with waterfowl and other wildlife, and protection is essential to save the runs of coho and chum salmon, which are currently threatened by development. The owner, Mr. Chu, is asking $640,000 for the four lots at the mouth of the creek. The Society for the Protection of Ayum Creek is asking that CRD Parks act immediately to secure the property, and safeguard the area in perpetuity. Action : Please write with your views to John Ranns, Chair, CRD Parks, PO Box 1000, Victoria V8W 2S6. (2) CAR INSURANCE BY DISTANCE TRAVELLED Why should someone who drives 10,000 km a year, and exposes herself to 10,000km of risk, pay the same insurance as someone who drives 20,000km ? The system of car insurance that ICBC uses encourages people to drive, while hiding the real cost of driving. If car insurance was based on mileage, as recorded by the car's odometer, there would be a strong incentive to drive less, and to cycle, walk and use public transit more. The result would be cleaner air, fewer vehicles on the road, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. It might also make people think twice before buying a home knowing they'll face a long commute to work every day. Action : Write to Doug Allen, Commissioner, Review Team on Auto-Insurance, #629, 999 Canada Place, Vancouver V6C 3E1. Fax (604) 844-3123, asking for distance-based insurance. The Team is finalizing its recommendations to government by Feb 28th, so now's the time to write ! THE GREEN DIARY FEBRUARY 1997 Every Sunday & Wednesday, 9am. Swan Lake Nature Centre birding walks. Sat 1st, 12pm Goldstream Park Eagles Extravaganza. Special guests from the Falconry Association, at the Visitor Centre. Sat 1st, 8pm Premiere showing of Spirit of the Drum by Victoria filmmaker Bill Weaver, followed by a dance to the beat of Island Rhythm, from Cortes Island, led by Gordy Ryan. White Eagle Hall, 90 Dock St, Victoria. Admission $10. Call 386-3182 for details. Sun 2nd East Vancouver Island Sierra Club cross country skiing, NW Bay area. Call Inge, 246-9184 Sun 2nd, 1pm 'Tiny Tracks' - learn to read animal footprints. Francis King Regional Park, meet Inverness Road parking lot Sun 2nd, 1-3pm Mount Tolmie Park Nature Walk. Meet at the Summit. 595-7270 Wed 5th, 10-2pm Matheson Lake lakeside hike. Bring hiking shoes and lunch. CRD Parks. Pre-register, $8, 478-3344 Thur 6th, 7pm Winter Gardening Workshop Series in the restored barn at Point Ellice House, Pleasant St (off Bay). Part 6 : The Garden as a Place of Healing. $20. Call Carolyn Herriot, 592-4472. Fri 7th, 5-l0pm& Sat 8th 9-4pm. Provincial Land Trust meeting, Malaspina College Nanaimo, to form an alliance of provincial land trust groups to address common concerns and issues. Barbara Hourston, 758-5490 hourston@island.net Sat 8th, 12pm Goldstream Park Eagles Extravaganza. Entertaining slide show on Birds of Prey of BC, at the Visitor Centre. Sun 9th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club hike to Stoney Hill, near Maple Bay. Call Lois, 748-5373 Sun 9th, 6-10pm VIVA vegetarian potluck and dance, James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan. $5. Call Andrea, 386-2100 Tue 11th, 6pm Victoria Natural History Society Annual banquet, Princess Mary Restaurant. $22. Details Audrey, 477-6739 Tue 11th, 7:30pm Greater Victoria Electric Railway Society monthly meeting, MacDonald's Furniture Mart, 1420 Broad St. Wed 12th, 7:30pm Victoria Sierra Club Issues Night - Green Building Technologies. 1923 Fernwood Rd. All welcome Thur 13th-Fri 14th North Island Regional Community Economic Development Forum, Courtenay. 'The World We Want: Building Economic Value From Community Values'. For info, call (250) 339-7123 meyer@nic.bc.ca Fri 14th, noon Victoria Car Share Cooperative Launch, at the Menzies St Chevron Station, James Bay. For information on membership, call Kathryn Molloy, 995-0265. Sat 15th 10 - 5pm Seedy Saturday - Victoria's 4th Annual Community Seed Barter and Show. Special displays on the greening of local schoolgrounds. South Park School, James Bay. $3. Carolyn Herriot, 592-4472. Sat 15th, 12pm Goldstream Park Eagles Extravaganza. Silde show on Goshawk studies on Vancouver Island, Visitor Centre. Sat 15th, 7pm 'Feline phobias - The Cougar'. Evening event at Francis King Regional Park, Munn Rd, Saanich. Sun 16th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club hike on the Maple Mountain trails. Call Diana, 746-6659 Sun 16th, 1-3pm Raincoast Winter Survival : food storage for First Nations people. Witty's Lagoon Park, Metchosin Rd. Sun 16th, 2pm Memorial Gathering for Beth Hill, 1215 North End Road, Salt Spring. Outdoors, wear shoes for mud. Sun 16th, 7.30pm 'Colours of Infinity' - the incredible world of the Mandelbrot Set. Not to be missed ! TV Channel 9 Mon 17th, 7pm Vancouver Island Vegetarian Association (VIVA) AGM. James Bay Community School Library, 140 Oswego. New members welcome ! For details call Andrea, 386-2100. Wed 19th, 10-11:30 'Their's is a Little House'. Parents & tots nature adventure on animals' homes. Francis King Reg Park. Fri 21st - Sun 23rd 'Spirituality of the Environment : A Silent Retreat at Queenswood, Victoria. Facilitator, Rev. Charles Brandt. A weekend reflecting on the Earth Story and the Living Universe. $105/$135. Details, 477-3822. Sat 22nd, 1-3pm 'Slugs Abound !' CRD Parks slug hunt, good for parents too. $4, or $10 per family. Francis King Reg Park Sun 23rd East Vancouver Island Sierra Club Salt Spring hike. Call Patti, 537-4292 Sun 23rd, 9am Winter Birds at Island View Beach. Last year, over 100 species were seen. Meet end of far parking lot. Sun 23rd, 9am Somenos Marsh wildlife viewing tour. Meet Boatland Building, just north of Duncan. 746-8383 Sun 23rd, 1-3pm Mount Tolmie Park Nature Walk. Meet at the Summit. 595-7270 Sun 23rd, 2pm 'RESULTS' Monthly Meeting. Report from the MicroCredit Summit. 1320 Bond St. Details - 384-1842 Mon 24th, 7:30pm 'Bane or Boon - Impacts of the Developing aquaculture Industry in B.C.', with biologist Steve Cross, of Aquametrix Research. Swan Lake Nature Centre. VNHS, everyone welcome. Tue 25th 7:30pm EcoNews Dessert Potluck Mailout Party, 2069 Kings Rd Oak Bay. Everyone welcome ! 592-4473 Wed 26th, 7pm CRD Regional Growth Strategies Public Advisory Committee, CRD, 524 Yates St. Open to the public. Sun March 2nd East Vancouver Island Sierra Club hike to East Sooke Park. Call Al, 743-5119 Coming Up : April 18th - 27th Vancouver Island's Eighth Annual Earth Week April 29th - May 2nd 'From Carbon Cycle to Bicycle - Sharing Responsibility for Climate Change'. Univ Centre, Victoria. Major international conference organized by the Skies Above Foundation, 477-0555. May 22nd - 23rd Recycling Council of BC Waste Reduction Conference, Whistler. (604) 683-6009 helens@axionet.com June 5th - 7th Implementing Sustainable Energy In A Changing World. Solar Energy Society of Canada Annual Conference, Vancouver. (613) 523-0974 solar@worldlink.ca July 28th-Aug 11th International Working Meeting for Environmentalists in the Taiga forest, Ural Mountains, Russia. Liza Hollingshead, Ecologia, The Park, Forres IV36OTZ Scotland. Fax 01144-1309-690995 ecoliza@rmplc.co.uk July 28th - Aug 1st 'Local Leadership for Sustainable Communities', 5-day Community Development Insititute, at Sechelt, Sunshine Coast. 75 different workshops, speakers. For details, call Leslie Kemp, 736-8118 Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Thu Jan 30 21:48:03 1997 To: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) (by way of impulse@islandnet.com (Peter Ronald)) From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Re: ECONEWS Feb '97 (in case you have to wait for the mailed version) Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Thank you for forwarding Econews, Peter. However, i subscribe to the electronic format already and so there is no need to forward it to me in the future. Regards, AL From ???@??? Tue Feb 04 00:23:20 1997 To: Kevin Pegg From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: RE: ENGO Victoria--Cdn Env Protection Act 911 Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: C:\AL\PENDING\ACTION.TXT; >Thanks, but the attachments didn't arrive on this end...... I didn't broadcast the attachment. But since you asked... Voila. It's yours. How's business? AL >---------- >From: by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)[SMTP:jpalter@inforamp.net (by way of Howard Breen )] >Sent: February 2, 1997 2:45 PM >To: emerald@islandnet.com >Subject: ENGO Victoria--Cdn Env Protection Act 911 > >===================================================================== >ACTION ALERT >BILL C-74: >THE PROPOSED CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (CEPA) >WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW! > >On December 10, 1996, Bill C-74, a new CEPA, was introduced into the House >of Commons. Bill C-74 does not provide comprehensive protection for the >environment or human health. [See background information attached] > >We need your help to tell the Prime Minister, the Environment Minister, >other ministers and your M.P. that CEPA must be improved. [See addresses >attached] > >Help us strengthen Bill C-74 and respond to the industry campaign to weaken >further it by writing your letters. > >Letters may be sent electronically from the CEPA website at >http://www.web.net/cepa911 >===================================================================== > > >Attachment Converted: C:\1NEW\ACTION.TXT > >Attachment Converted: C:\AL\PENDING\ACTION.TXT > > > > >----- >Kevin Pegg >Crestline Computer Solutions Inc. > > From ???@??? Fri Feb 07 20:50:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: from helix.net [204.244.109.2] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0vsyME-0006bqC for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.244.111.186] (nicety.helix.net [204.244.111.186]) by helix.net (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id NAA07732; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:54:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:54:50 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: crn@asterix.helix.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: crn@helix.net From: crn@helix.net (Jill Thomas) Subject: need letters again! X-UIDL: b43ed9f055a0cc75b4a3889594d6fac5 Sorry everyone for the confusion regarding my last request for letters that turned out to be a long list of email addresses. I was trying to figure out how to send the text without the long list of email addresses at the top (because a lot of you requested that I do so) and I screwed up. Oops! So here is try number two. Hope it works! The letters we need are about the Vancouver Island Resource Target process which is a land use planning initiative for Vancouver Island. If you have already written a letter - thank you. If not please so ASAP. Letters from outside British Columbia and outside Canada demonstrate that this is a issue of global conern and do influence local government decisions. The BC government is preparing to release the second draft of the Vancouver Island Resource Targets (VIRT) plan in a closed door process. There is a draft letter at the bottom of this document which tells you what VIRT is what the problems with it are that you can use to write your letter. But in a nutshell it is the master land use plan for Vancouver Island. The problems with it are mainly that it fails to protect biodiveristy, will relax forestry regulations in areas designated as High Impact Areas, does not protect fish bearing streams, allows continued clearcutting in Low Intensity Areas, does not manage habitat for threatened and endangered species and threatens tourism opportunities. The conservation community in BC finds both the content and process of implementation for this plan unacceptable. The plan will allow high intensity clearcut logging in 350,000 of the remaining 900,000 hectares of ancient rainforest remaining on Vancouver Island. This is in a place where 70% of the original ancient forests have already been cut and just 6.6% has been set aside in protected areas. The government of BC scheduled a meeting to look at a second draft of the VIRT on Feb. 11th but cancelled it. This is the third time that the meeting has been cancelled and it may be a result of the public criticism about the environmental flaws in the plan. We need to keep the pressure on the government of BC to solicit public input and redraft the plan so it really does protect biodiversity on Vancouver Island. So please write letters ASAP. If possible after you have sent your letter advise me by email so that we can estimate how many letters the government has received. Thanks for your concern and help! Jill Thomas, CRN ********* DRAFT LETTER Honourable Zirnhelt, Minister of Forests Parliament Buildings Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 Fax: (250) 387-1040 January, 1997 Dear Mr Zirnhelt, I am writing this letter to express my opposition to the recent draft of the Vancouver Island Resource Target (VIRT) draft plan that outlines the future for most of Vancouver Island's forests, that is, the Crown Land, Timber Supply Areas and Tree Farm Licences on Vancouver Island (not including Clayoquot Sound). I am aware of the fact that Vancouver Island's rainforests have already been devastated. Currently over 70% have been clearcut and only 6.6% have been protected in parks. Therefore, how the rest of the land base is managed is critical. The draft document that your government is proposing to manage the land base on Vancouver Island (VIRT) is unacceptable to me because: 1. It will not lead to ecologically sustainable forestry or a sustainable economic future for the forests and communities of Vancouver Island. 2. The process was not a public process, which violates the Provincial government commitment (as stated in the approved Land Use Charter). 3. The starting point of VIRT was incorrect. It was not trying to determine how to develop ecologically sustainable forestry on Vancouver Island, it was determining how to zone Vancouver Island to maintain a level of logging which is higher than what the environmental community knows is ecologically sustainable. 4. The plan, as it is outlined now, will severely compromise biodiversity, fish and fish habitat, and wildlife, as well impact other economic activities on the Island such as tourism, fisheries, and recreation. This plan will leave communities and the ecology of Vancouver Island severely compromised. Vancouver Island must be sustainably managed for all forest values. That is not what is happening now and the proposed VIRT plan falls far short of accomplishing this. In summary, I am writing to ask that no final decision be made on the VIRT report until the public has had time to participate and provide input into this very important matter that will decide the future of land use and the rainforests on Vancouver Island. I urge you to develop a plan which will include ecosystem based forest management on Vancouver Island which will sustain all forest values as well as provide jobs for the forest based communities. This planning process must include the public at all stages. Jill Thomas Coordinator, CRN Box 2241 Main Post Office Vancouver, BC V6B 3W2 ph (604) 669-4303 fx (604) 669-6833 Canadian Rainforest Network From ???@??? Mon Feb 24 19:30:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.60] [198.53.172.151] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0vzCEU-0006eqC for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:03:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:03:06 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: EcoNews March '97 X-UIDL: 624e741803f84953d02a81f43d441123 ECONEWS No. 59 Serving Vancouver Island's Environmental Community MARCH 1997 WELCOME TO SPRING - AND PESTICIDES ! It's spring ! The crocuses are blooming, the birds are mating, and the lawn-mowers will soon be out. All over the west coast, gardeners are getting ready to sow their seeds, and garden supplies stores are full of ......... chemicals. Yes, chemicals, to fight the perennial war against weeds, moss, insects, fungus, rose-blight, anything gardeners don't like. The average garden store would probably be classified as a contaminated site if someone took the trouble to weigh the volume of hazardous chemicals stored in one place. It's not just our private gardens, either. Municipal parks departments still use chemicals to control weeds, often without any signs to say so, irrespective of complaints by people who are chemically sensitive, or who don't want their children playing in the poisons. Saanich Parks department recently justified spraying the Galloping Goose trail by saying that "people might trip over the weeds". What on earth are we doing ? * Pesticides have been linked to many different types of cancer, from breast cancer (DDT) to non-Hodgkins lymphomas and soft-tissue sarcomas (phenoxy herbicides). * A National Cancer Institute Study in the U.S. indicates that children are as much as 6 times more likely to get childhood leukemia when pesticides are used in the home and garden. * A 1995 study published in the American Journal of Public Health found elevated levels of cancer in children where pesticides were used in their homes and yards. They found a particularly high correlation in homes where dichlorovos pest strips were used. * Garden pesticides don't stay in the garden, either. Pesticides that enter the home on people's clothing and shoes or in the air can persist for years because they are not subject to breakdown factors like rain, sunlight, temperature extremes and microbial action. Carpets and foam carpet padding act as long-term reservoirs, and pose a danger to infants and children. * Dogs from homes with lawns that have been sprayed with pesticides have a higher than average rate of the canine equivalent of lymphoma. Cancer is now the number one cause of death in dogs. Pesticide residues are in the bodies of seals in the Arctic and penguins in the Antarctic. The whole world is affected - not just our back yards. Enough ! Enough ! (There's LOTS more where this comes from. Even the insect pollinators - the honeybees, butterflies and other insects that we depend on to pollinate our crops are suffering). The big question is - what can we do to stop this madness ? Almost everyone knows someone who is either suffering or who has died from cancer of one kind or another. In Sweden, they've set national goals, and achieved a 47% reduction by weight in pesticide use between 1986 and 1991. They were aiming for a total reduction of 75% by the end of 1996. The first thing you can do is the most obvious : stop buying the chemicals yourself, and make the decision today that your yard will be chemical free, and organically maintained. Plan to build a proper compost bin, and start feeding your soil organically. The Compost Education Centre (386-WORM) will give you all the low-down you need, and the Victoria Horticultural Society has an Organic Gardeners Study Group. Then start choosing organically grown fruits and vegetables. There are lots available, thanks to stores like Lifestyle Markets and Thrifty Foods. But if we are to make our cities and neighbourhoods safe for ourselves, our children and grandchildren (for some of the chemicals are mutagenic), we need to go further. You could talk to your neighbours, and see if they're willing to declare your block a 'Pesticide Free Zone'. A number of communities (starting in Hudson, Quebec) have passed by-laws banning toxic chemicals used for purely cosmetic purposes. The Hudson by-law survived a Quebec Supreme Court legal challenge by the chemical industries, and is now being copied elsewhere. We need to persuade our local municipalities to stop using chemical pesticides in public spaces, especially near schools. This Spring, the Sierra Club of Canada is hoping to have 100 communities across Canada which will develop by-law challenges to the cosmetic use of pesticides (details inside). Looking back from the 21st century, historians will see our addiction to chemicals as one of the follies of the 20th century. So let's end it, now. Guy Dauncey ECONEWS EcoNews is published every month as a service to the Vancouver Island environmental community, funded (as they say !) by donations from readers like you. Jan Feb March Circulation: 2000 2000 2000 Cost: $714 $741 $740 Donations: $515 $525 ? ? ? Advertising $25 Balance: $1630 $1666 Many thanks to this month's angels - Andrew & Elizabeth Gibson, Maria Abbott, Peter Schofield, Joel Harvey, Aaron Rain, Pamela Carlson, Ruth Masters, Karen Woodland & Joel Ussery, Kay Wood, Lois Marcoux, Cecilie Davidson, TL Danlock, Wes Gietz, Dan Pippin, William Cameron, Susan Holvenstot, Janis Kirker, Gail Schultz, Warren Nickerson and Karen Hope. What would we do without you ? To receive EcoNews by mail call (250) 592-4473. By email, call . Donations can be made to EcoNews, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada THE BENT NAIL Another first for Victoria ! For years, developers and owners have been demolishing houses without a thought to the valuable resources that might be recycled. Every year, 4,000 tons of demolition waste go to the landfill. No more ! The Bent Nail is Canada's first used building materials store run by the street community. Based in Esquimalt at 870 Devonshire Rd, the project will collect, clean and sell used building materials, from kitchen cabinets to baseboards. The project is run by the Victoria Street Community Association, and a dozen long-term unemployed people are training to work there, supported by Environment Canada's ACTION 21 program, the City of Victoria, the CRD, the Vancouver Foundation, the Ministry of Human Resources and the Ministry of Empoyment and Investment. Lauren Pheaton, Bent Nail's manager, says the project aims to be self-financing by 1999. "This is about giving our long-term unemployed people a chance to break out of the poverty cycle". For details, call 386-2332 - and go visit ! NEWS YOU NEVER HEARD For two days in February, the International Hemp Symposium in Vancouver was packed with 2,000 delegates from Canada, Poland, Germany, the US and Britain and a further 3,000 visitors who came to learn about the future possibilities of this astonishing crop. EcoSource (who supply the paper for EcoNews) were beseiged with visitors who carried off everything they could. Watch out, pulp and paper industry ! CAR SHARING IN FERNWOOD Hot from their successful 20 member launch in James Bay, the Victoria Car Share Co-operative is planning to open a pod in Fernwood. Here's how it works. You pay $400 to buy your shares (returnable), a $100 non-returnable membership fee and $10 a month for admin. Associate members are half price. When you want to use a vehicle, you simply book it through the answering service, and pay $1.50/hour and 25 cents/km. Future pods will be developed in Fairfield, Oak Bay, Cadboro Bay, Downtown, Esquimalt, Burnside, Swan Lake and Mount Tolmie. Call Kathryn at 995-0265, if you're interested. UNIQUE COHOUSING OPPORTUNITY House (single family dwelling) for sale by owner, 2 doors up from Cardiff Place CoHousing Community, Fairfield. 2 BR up, 2 down, 1700 sq ft, $267,000. If you buy, the community may accept your use of our Common Areas in exchange for our use of the house's yard. INTERESTED ? Call Brad at Cardiff Place, 480-5152. STREETLIFE in FAIRFIELD On a peaceful, snowy night's walk in Fairfield late December, when cars were banished by the snow, Sid Tafler (ex-Editor of Monday Magazine) had an idea. What if a residential street in Fairfield, two to four blocks long, was converted into a space that was primarily for pedestrians, cyclists and shared community living for the residents ? Choose a street with minimal arterial traffic, no transit routes and adequate off-street parking, expand the boulevard to the centre of the street, and leave a single, slightly winding lane for one-way vehicular and bicycle traffic, at 10 km per hour. Restrict on-street parking, and use the newly released space for mini-playlots, wider sidewalks, frisbee or ball-tossing areas, park benches, bird feeders, gardens, fruit trees, picnic tables, a community barbeque pit, bicycle stands, totem poles or sculptures. The idea has been endorsed by the Fairfield Community Association's Transportation Management Subcte, and recommended as part of the transportation management plan which to be conducted with the City of Victoria in 1997. The residents and property owners on a proposed street would discuss the plan and work out all the details, and only streets with large majority support would be considered. If you're interested, call Sid Tafler at 381-4244 stafler@netbc.com ECOCITY - WHY NOT ? On April 1st, Guy Dauncey and Laura Acton will be analyzing what it would take to turn turn Victoria into an EcoCity - a community of people living in harmony with each other and with their ecosystem, locally and globally - followed by critical analysis from a panel of planners and engineers (see Diary). When you take the various components individually, the vision begins to look possible : the missing ingredients are the organization and commitment to make it happen. Also, on March 14th (see Diary) Robert Theobald and Guy Dauncey will be holding a public dialogue on Revitalizing Communities, looking at what more needs to be done here in Victoria to create a community that is ready for the 21st century, socially, spiritually, ecologically and economically. SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY Do you sometimes wish you enjoyed a stronger sense of community ? Something more than just waving 'hello' to your neighbours as you drive past them on the way to work ? Some streets are great - but many are little more than a dormitory of private souls, who spend far more time with their TVs than with each other. Heather McAndrew and David Springbett are Victoria film-makers with Asterisk Pruductions who have just completed a major 10-part TV series called 'Ways We Live - Exploring Community'. The series comes out of their personal search for community, and takes the viewer through housing co-ops and cohousing, into remote RV parks and the urban jungle, behind the walls of wealthy enclaves and inside poor neighbourhoods, in search of answers. They discovered common themes of belonging, sharing, supporting and giving back, where people are willing and able to take control and find their own solutions. The series airs on VISION TV (21) every Wednesday night, starting March 5th. Maybe you should invite the neighbours in to watch with you ? PACIFIC COAST SAVINGS If you bank with Pacific Coast Savings, you have a vote in their forthcoming elections, starting March 24th. Credit Unions, unlike the banks, are owned and controlled by their members, and policies are determined by the elected Board. So here's your chance to cast your vote for change ! EcoNews is endorsing two candidates, Bernie Jones and Elizabeth Woods. Bernie is well known in Victoria, and has 30 years background in community development. Elizabeth has been a Board member since 1994, and is author of 'If Only Things Were Different', a fictional vision of a sustainable society here in Victoria. Both are committed to taking Pacific Coast Savings down the path of sustainable, community-based economic development. Voting ends April 12th. If you are interested in standing for election, you must have been a member for a year. Nominations for 1998 close in Sept 1997. ROSS PEROT, ON THE SPOTTED OWL "But I will tell you this, I have looked at a few, I was up in Washington state and the people were so worried about this huge area they wouldn't let them do any timber cutting because of these owls, and I finally asked a relevant question. I said 'How many owls are there?' Said '20,' and I said 'OK, I suggest we send Air Force One out here, transport 'em in absolutely first-class comfort to the nearest national park. Now the owls can live happily ever after in hundreds of thousands of acres in some nearby park, as we can go back to work here.' Sept 18th '96, San Francisco YEHUDI MENUHIN, ON LIVING In contrast, here's the violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhi, who is coming to Victoria in May to conduct the VSO. These words are taken from a prayer which he wrote to accompany an article in the Times of London (Aug 21st & 22nd, 1989) : "Guide me to my better self - help me make myself into one who is trusted by living things, creatures and plants, as well as the air, water, earth and light that sustain these. Keep me as one who respects the mystery and character of every variety of life in both its uniqueness and its mass, for all life is essential to its own survival [...] Help me to be a good trustee for the body You gave me. No life is to do with as I will, not even my "own", for it is an object entrusted into "my" temporary keeping, to bequeath back into the earthly cycle in the best possible condition for other life to continue." CRUELTY-FREE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PURCHASING Every year, municipal purchasing departments spend thousands of dollars on basic cleaning products such as hand soaps and floor cleaners, many of which are tested on live animals in horribly cruel ways. Collectively, municipal governments have enormous purchasing power. To help turn things around, the Animal Alliance of Canada has published a brochure on 'How to Convince your Local Government to Purchase Cruelty Free Products', based on their experience in working with Toronto City Council who have agreed to introduce legislation to bring in cruelty-free products. This is one of those small tasks that just needs someone to say "Yes - I can do that." For a free copy, write to the Animal Alliance, 221 Broadview Ave, Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario M4M 2G3. Fax (416) 462-9647 http://www.inforamp.net/~aac/ "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. Because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Edward Everett Hale, 1822 - 1909 TRAFFIC REDUCTION PARTIES Do you want to reduce the traffic on your street ? David Engwicht, an Australian transportation activist, has come up with Traffic Reduction Parties, which get neighbours together in a street party to identify traffic calming options, and encourage individual households to reduce their automobile use. Most residents want traffic reduced in our own neighbourhoods, but to accomplish this we need to be willing to drive less through other neighbourhoods. The Car Activity Diary allows you to rank your car trips according to whether they could be shifted to another mode or foregone altogether. Most residents identify a significant number of trips that could be reduced with little sacrifice. The Traffic Reduction Kit includes an organizers' manual, video, instruction sheets, Car Activity Diaries, playing cards, street signs, party hats and case studies. For details write to P.O. Box 12816, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406. EARTHWEEK PRIZES And if you are able to help Doug Koch and Earthworks with the organizing, give him a call on 383-5765. If you are organizing an event for Earthweek (April 18th - 27th), the deadline for getting into the program is March 28th. And if you are young, don't forget that Doug is putting together a collection of your visions for the future of our community and our world, and the steps needed to be sustainable by the year 2020. There are prizes for both art and for writing - the deadline in March 21st. Go for it ! WORK IN AFRICA Group leader, intern and volunteer positions are available with Operation Crossroads Africa in Africa and Brazil this summer, working on a wide range of social, environmental and artistic projects. Details (212) 870-2106 oca@igc.apc.org MONEY MONEY MONEY ! The Home Depot gave $367,800 in charitable contributions to 47 non-profit environmental agencies during 1996 to support environmental awareness in building practices, recycling and solid waste management. Contact Randy Ziffer, (770) 801-5821. And the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line set up the Royal Caribbean Ocean Fund, worth $1 million over the next 3 years, to support research, education and other projects to protect the world's oceans. Details Lynn Martenstein, (305) 539-6573. ACTION OF THE MONTH : PESTICIDES If we all act together, our voices will turn into a song, which cannot be ignored. Write to the Mayor and Council of your local municipality, or your CRD Regional Director, share your views about the use of pesticides and herbicides, and ask what specific steps they are taking to reduce the use of chemicals in outdoor areas, and to ban their use near schools. The addresses are on p 470 of the phone book, and the post-codes are as follows: Victoria V8P 1P6 Saanich V8X 2W7 Cent Saan V0S 1M0 Nth Saan V8L 4C1 Sidney V8L 1Y7 Oak Bay V8R 1G2 Highlands V9B 5T9 ColwoodV9C 1R1 ViewRoyal V9B 1A6 Langford V9B 4E4 Metchosin V8X 3W9 Nth Cow V9L 3X4 CRD Regional Directors, PO Box 1000, Victoria V8W 2S6 If you want to pursue this properly, and work on the by-law campaign, the Sierra Club of Canada is coordinating the efforts of the 100 municipal campaigns, and will send you a copy of 'Pesticide Bylaws : Why We Need Them, How to Get Them'. Write to Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada, 412-1 Nicholas St, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B7 Donations are welcome. sierra@web.net If you would like to work with other people in your area to do a joint effort, EcoNews will publish your name, so that others can get in touch. Just call me at 592-4473. This is also a good time to be writing about this to the editors of the Times Colonist, and our local papers. We only have to put up with the continued presence of these harmful chemicals in our environment because of our own inertia. THE GREEN DIARY MARCH 1997 Every Sunday & Wednesday, 9am. Swan Lake Nature Centre birding walks. Everyone welcome. Sun 2nd, 2-6pm Victoria Green Party AGM, Fernwood Community Ass'n, 1923 Fernwood Rd. Members/supporters welcome Sun, 7pm 'Recycling - All Your Questions Answered !' Repeat of Live TV Phone-In, Perspectives, Shaw TV 11 Mon 3rd, 6:30pm 'Planting a Garden : A Political Act'. Local growers Mary Alice Johnson, David Stott and Dan Jason discuss the deeper implications of sustainable food production. UVic Begbie 159. Laura 595-1372 Sat 8th, 9-4.30pm 4th Annual Native Plant Symposium, to increase public awareness about native plant gardening and other native vegetation issues. Presentations, workshops, walking tours. Elliot Lecture Wing, UVic. $15 at the door, $12 advance (Field Naturalist, Swan Lake) $8 students. Ruthanne, 381-5608, Jennifer, 472-2818 Sat 8th, 6:30pm Musical HATs '97. An evening of entertainment with the talents of local naturalists, biologists and other nature nuts, to fundraise for the Habitat Acquisition Trust. Prospect Lake Community Hall, 5358 Sparton Hall. $7.50. Tickets at Field Naturalist, and VHS Members Nights. Colleen, 388-4520. Sat 8th/Sun 9th Royal BC Museum Open House, 10am - 4pm. Talk with staff, go behind the scenes, free admission. Sun 9th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club hike to East Sooke Park. Call Al. 743-5119 Wed 5th, 7:30pm Westland TV looks at Forest Renewal BC's largest fish and wildlife inventory program ever. TV 4 KNOW Wed 5th, 8:30pm 'Ways We Live - Community Animals'. Today's leading thinkers explore community. VISION TV 21 Tue 11th, 4.30pm 'Living Green' - A Workshop on Sustainable Living. Speakers on organic food & farming, urban composting, shopping for justice and more. UVic SUB Multipurpose Rm. Details Liam Odell, 721-8326. Tue 11th, 7:30pm Greater Victoria Electric Railway Society monthly meeting, MacDonald's Furniture Mart, 1420 Broad St. Wed 12th, 7pm Video Awareness Night - 'The Body Parts Business'. Edward Milne School, Sooke. free 642-4147 Wed 12th, 8:30pm 'Ways We Live - Virtually Intentional'. Nuns, communes and cybercommunities. VISION TV 21 Wed 12th, 7:30pm Victoria Sierra Club Issues Night. 1923 Fernwood Rd. All welcome. Call Peter Dixon 472-8646 for details Thur 13th, 10pm 'Visionaries'. Dr Michael Odent, on the linkage between birth practices and health. TV 4 KNOW Thur 13th - 19th 'Rio + 5' Global Forum in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Five years after the Rio Conference : What progress ? Fri 14th, 7:30pm 'Revitalizing Communities : Learning and Living in an Uncertain Future', with Robert Theobald and Guy Dauncey. A Dialogue and discussion on the vision and the practical possibilities for change here on Vancouver Island. Begbie 159, donations. Robert Theobald ('Not the Massey Lectures") spoke to a packed audience last November,and this is his return visit. Details Caspar, 360-2141 Sat 15th, 9.30-4pm 'Revitalizing Communities' - Workshop with Robert Theobald. $45. Cadboro Commons, UVic 360-2141 Sat 15th, 9 - 4pm Day-Long Workshop with Dr Bill Rees on Eco-Footprints and the City. UBC, Vancouver. $45. 822-3914 Sun 16th, 1-3pm Mount Tolmie Park Nature Walk. Meet at the Summit. 595-7270 Mon 17th - Fri 21st Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary Children's programs 1pm & 3pm, + Tue & Friday evenings. Details 479-0211 Tue 18th, starting Ethnobotany evening class with Dr Marilyn Walker, 6 sessions, $65. Call 721-8526 to register SEGEX 177 Wed 19th, 7:30pm Westland TV looks at Watershed Restoration Programs. TV 4 KNOW Wed 19th, 8:30pm 'Ways We Live - Community by Design'. Redesigning our neighbourhoods and suburbs. VISION TV 21 Fri 21st 7-9pm & Sat 22nd 9-5pm Sacred Ecology Workshop with the NorthWest Earth Institute. Do you want to be a more effective change agent in the world at large ? Community Action Centre, 941 Kings Rd. $75. Robin, 480-1100 Fri 21st Deadline for the EarthWeek Youth Writing Competition on Visions of the Future. Details, Doug 383-5765 Wed 26th, 8:30pm 'Ways We Live - Making Shelter, My Home With Others'. New ways of thinking about housing VISION 21 Wed 26th, 7pm CRD Regional Growth Strategies Public Advisory Committee, CRD, 524 Yates St. Open to the public. Wed 26th 7:30pm EcoNews Dessert Potluck Mailout Party, 2069 Kings Rd Oak Bay. Everyone welcome ! 592-4473 Thur 27th, 7:30pm 'Revisioning Community : Activism and Social Justice', with Dr Josie Schofield, Maeve Lyden, Warren Magnusson and other speakers. UVic 'Public issues' series. Begbie 159. Thur 27th, 10pm 'Visionaries : Francis Moore Lappe, on the need to recreate our democracies. TV 4 KNOW Sun 30th, 9am Somenos Marsh wildlife viewing tour. Meet Boatland Building, just north of Duncan. 746-8383 Sun 30th, 1-3pm Mount Tolmie Park Nature Walk. Meet at the Summit. 595-7270 Tue April 1st, 7pm 'The EcoCity - Why Not?'. Speakers Guy Dauncey and Laura Acton, plus panel to look at what's stopping us from turning Victoria into an EcoCity. Displays 7pm, Speakers 7.30pm. UVic Begbie 159 Coming Up : April 29th-May 2nd 'From Carbon Cycle to Bicycle - Sharing Responsibility for Climate Change', Univ Centre, Victoria. Major international conference organized by the Skies Above Foundation. 477-0555 May 22nd - 23rd Recycling Council of BC Waste Reduction Conference, Whistler. (604) 683-6009 helens@axionet.com June 5th - 7th Implementing Sustainable Energy In A Changing World. Solar Energy Society of Canada Annual Conference, Vancouver. (613) 523-0974 solar@worldlink.ca Aug 30th 1998 Coastal Zone Canada '98 Conference. 'Community-based Integrated Coastal Management'.Details from Murray Rogers (250) 741-1901 czc98@ios,bc.ca Deadline for April EcoNews : March 24th Eco-21 Tree-Free paper supplied by Ecosource Paper 595-4367 All phone numbers are (250) code, unless otherwise listed. Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Wed Feb 26 18:04:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: from helix.net [204.244.109.2] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0vzolM-0006bnC for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.244.111.193] (geisha.helix.net [204.244.111.193]) by helix.net (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id LAA25705; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:01:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:01:51 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: crn@asterix.helix.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: crn@helix.net From: crn@helix.net (Jill Thomas) Subject: urgent action X-UIDL: 8e1054ef30c3111e3ae65f81c2f4263d February 26, 1997 Dear Friends and Allies; Last week the Sierra Legal Defence Fund released a report detailing the extent to which streams are being damaged by clearcutting and logs dragged across them in British Columbia. SLDF investigators reviewed plans for logging adjacent to 1,086 streams in four major forest districts in the province. The report found that 83% of the streams are being clearcut right up to the stream banks. Minister of Forests David Zirnhelt and Environment Minister Catherine McGregor announced, in response to the report, that they will only investigate streams that were "photographic examples" provided in the report. In other words, they will check out 10 of the 1,086 which provide the basis for the claims in the report. This demonstrates that despite government claims that they are taking the report seriously, they are not going to address the substance of the problems outlined in it. The government has used the Forest Practices Code for considerable public relations value in the past. Their response to this report demonstrates that they are more concerned about public relations than the long term health of B.C.'s forests, streams and fisheries. The Sierra Legal Defence Fund has offered to assist the government investigation by disclosing all research materials. The government said no to this offer. We need your help! Citizens and Organizations Letters from both individuals and organizations are needed. Please write to the Premier, the Minister of Enivironment, Lands and Parks and the Minister of Forests. Tell them that you or your organization are concerned that logging companies are jeopardizing B.C.'s forests and fisheries by regularly clearcutting to the banks of streams and dragging logs through streams. Tell the government that you are concerned that the Forest Practices Code is not protecting streams and ask the government to launch a full audit of the level of protection that is being given to streams in British Columbia. Tell them that you believe an audit of only 10 streams that were used as photographic examples in the SLDF report "Stream Protection Under the Code: The Destruction Continues" is an insufficient response to the serious findings of the report. Tell them that the survival of B.C.'s fisheries depends adequate and reliable protection of streams. Please send a copy of all your letter (by mail, email or fax) to the Canadian Rainforest Network. Letters from Environmental Organizations Outside Canada Tell the government of British Columbia that the Forest Practices Code has been publicized internationally as the answer to all the past problems with forestry in British Columbia. Tell them that the findings in this report are an indication that all is not well in the forest and that the destruction of forests and streams continues. Ask the government to do a full audit of the level of protection that is being given to streams in British Columbia under the Forest Practices Code. Please send a copy of your letter (by mail, email or fax) to the Canadian Rainforest Network. Letters and Photos from Concerned Forestry Communities & Fishers If you live in a community in British Columbia and are concerned about stream destruction tell the government that you think that the streams throughout the province are not being protected from the effects of clearcut logging. If you know of places where cutting has taken place right up to the stream bank since the Forest Practices Code has been in effect in 1996 please take a photograph and mail it to the Premier and ask the government to investigate the level of protection for streams in your area. Please identify exactly when and where the photo was taken, and when logging took place. Please send a copy of your letter and photos (by mail, email or fax) to the Canadian Rainforest Network. Necessary Addresses Premier Glen Clark, fax (250) 387-0087 or ph (250) 387-1715 Rm 156, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4 Minister of Forests, David Zirnhelt ,fax (250) 387-1040 phone (250) 387-6240 Rm 128, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4 Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks, Cathy McGregor , fax 387-1356 phone (250) 387-1187 Rm 337, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4 Canadian Rainforest Netwok, P.O. Box 2241, Main Post Office, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1H2, Canada ph (604) 669-4303, fax (604) 669-6833, email crn@helix.net Background Information It has been more than 20 months since the government of British Columbia brought into effect the Forest Practices Code. During this period, the forest industry and the government have repeatedly claimed that significant changes have been implemented in how British Columbia's forests are managed. Front and centre among these claims are assertions about the Code's "world class" protection of streams, lakes and wetlands. An extensive investigation done recently by the Sierra Legal Defense Fund reveals that these claims may be better for public relations than they are for streams. Sierra Legal Defense Fund did a 'citizens' audit' in cutblocks approved for logging in 1996 by major logging companies in four forest districts in coastal British Columbia. A six person team of lawyers, scientists and researchers examined 1086 streams. Unfortunately, their audit reveals a disturbing level of mismanagement by logging companies and widespread devastation of streams. The major concern is the extent to which forest streams continue to be clearcut up to both banks. In fact, 83% of all streams in 1996 cutblocks were clearcut to the banks. Even known fish streams were clearcut 79% of the time. This habitat destruction not only reflects the logging industry's abuse of discretion in current regulations, but it also highlights the ineffectiveness of the Code's stream protection. In other words, in most cases this was fully approved by the Ministry of Forests and was legal. The Ministry of Forests and Forests' District Managers used the discretion given to them under the Code to allow the destruction of streams. Standards intended to be minimums are treated as maximums, and are routinely ignored. In addition, other citizens' audits conducted by SLDF demonstrate that clearcutting is scheduled to continue in British Columbia at the rate of 92% across the province for the next five years and the amount of wood taken out of B.C.'s forests was actually higher in 1996 than in 1995. In other words, B.C. continues to clearcut just as often and just as much timber as before the Code was implemented even though we know the rate of logging is unsustainable. Thanks for your concern; Jill Thomas, Coordinator, Canadian Rainforest Network From ???@??? Wed Feb 26 23:47:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: from vifa1.freenet.victoria.bc.ca [199.60.222.1] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0vzzFa-0006cRC for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:23:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ui367@localhost) by vifa1.freenet.victoria.bc.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA22000; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:15:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:15:06 -0800 (PST) From: Fred Lang Subject: STOPPING "JUNK MAIL" To: AV DL , bbright@pinc.com, bobvan@octonet.com, emerald@islandnet.com, kmackinnon@bctf.bc.ca, mayday@nero.finearts.uvic.ca, mgrinder@phastf.phys.UVic.CA, OwenG@psac.com, rdesai@uvic.ca, RuddJ@psac.com, up130@freenet.victoria.bc.ca, ur966@freenet.victoria.bc.ca, wd674@freenet.victoria.bc.ca, VS Group , mhenry@sd61.bc.ca, see@islandnet.com, steveb@octonet.com, wn823@freenet.victoria.bc.ca cc: Mandy Rocks , Mark/Gloria Peterson , Dave Howe , Alayne Falle , Jim/Sheila Dwight , Susan Day , Caspar Davis , William David Cathcart , Jim/Coral Caddick Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 60528a4b22fc9c15cd16d5685ef3c06e STOPPING "JUNK MAIL" To stop JUNK MAIL write: Canadian Direct Marketing Association 1 Concord Gate, Suite 607 Don Mills, Ontario M3C 3N6 Phone: (416) 391-2362 and provide them all variations of your name, initials, etc. (Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. J. Smith) For further information about individual companies, please call the" Victoria" Better Business Bureau at 386-6348 (9am-4pm) Fax 386-2367. Fred Lang - ui367@freenet.victoria.bc.ca From ???@??? Sun Mar 09 19:20:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-22.islandnet.com [198.53.175.22] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0w3dbX-0006b0C for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 00:05:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 00:05:15 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth From: Howard Breen (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Online Environmental News X-UIDL: 2fb8ba06b7c435f57ff4d6570c3b4a34 Online Environmental News (Thanks to Steve Albertson / OneNorthwest) One of the greatest things about the Internet is the ease and speed with which you can access news reports from around the world. For activists working to protect the environment, there are several good online news services available to help you stay informed via email and the Web. Some are online versions of print publications, some exist only on the Internet, and a few are provided by activists in our region ("make your own media!"). Below is a quick review of some of these services: High Country News Online: High Country News is a bi-weekly newspaper started 25 years ago that reports on environmental issues in 10 Western states (incl. Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana). While their Web site doesn't include articles from the current paper edition, it does feature an extensive archive of past issues and articles, and an excellent search interface. http://www.hcn.org/ Cascadia Times Online: The Northwest's premiere environmental newspaper is now online as well. You can read articles from the current paper edition as well as back issues. This http://cascadia.times.org/ Greenwire: A daily publication of the National Journal. A subscription costs $835 a year, but provides comprehensive coverage of national and international environmental issues, and is accessible by email, Web, fax and a computer bulletin board. http://www.apn.com:80/greenwirehome/index.html Envirolink Enews: An extensive collection of short, original articles about environmental issues around the world, updated daily. http://www.envirolink.org/environews/enews.html Environmental News Network: ENN is a commercial environmental news service that only exists on the Internet. For an annual fee ($49.95 for Web access, $24.95 for an email bulletin daily), you can receive their daily reports on a vast array of environmental stories, including highlights from the Federal Register. ENN also publishes ENN Radio, which you can hear online with your trusty RealAudio player. http://www.enn.com/ REALNews: An "in depth, no excuses look into the environmental issues of the Salish Sea" (Northern Puget Sound, in Washington State). The Internet is a great place for do-it-yourself journalism, and REALNews is an excellent example of place-based online reporting. http://www.realnews.org/ Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Environmental Pages: Business-slanted, but DJC covers a lot of important stories that don't get covered elsewhere, and they're focused exclusively on the Northwest. http://www.djc.com/enviro/ Steelhead: This fledgling magazine bills itself as the "Handbook of the Next Northwest" and so far it's delivering. While not dedicated to news about the environment, they often include articles on sustainability and activism. Equally at home online and in print, Steelhead is published monthly and can be found at http://www.speakeasy.org/steelhead/. Pacifica News: Pacific Network News is available every day from WebActive at http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/, and while not focused solely on the environment, this is an excellent source of daily news that often doesn't make it into the major media outlets. You'll need Progressive Networks' RealAudio Player to listen. (http://www.real.com) Other Regional Media Online: Many local newspapers, television and radio stations have established Web sites, and many of the newspapers offer full-text articles from their current editions. You can find a listing of these online media organizations by looking at the Media Resources page on the ONE/Northwest Web site ( http://www.onenw.org/html/media.shtml ). From ???@??? Sun Mar 09 22:03:32 1997 To: earth From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: News Victoria-- PSA: Car Co-op Cc: Bcc: news victoria,car coop X-Attachments: Victoria Car Share Co-operative 206-545 Superior Street Victoria, B.C., V8V 1T7 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT March 9 until April 2, 1997 Tired of owning a car? Want to tread lightly on the planet and your wallet? The Victoria Car Share Co-operative has an alternative for you. Share owners collectively own a variety of cars, trucks and vans. The Co-op started on February 14 and is growing fast. Call soon for your information package and to find out about groups in your area. Call 995-0265. --end-- Information: Kathryn Malloy, 995-0265. From ???@??? Thu Mar 06 19:56:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: from norm.island.net [199.60.19.4] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0w2Oql-0006eua for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:07:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by norm.island.net (8.8.5/8.7.5/island.net) id OAA22017 for nanoosenet-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:08:59 -0800 Received: from carver.pinc.com (carver.pinc.com [199.60.118.2]) by norm.island.net (8.8.5/8.7.5/island.net) with ESMTP id OAA22008 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:08:56 -0800 Received: from bbright.pinc.com (pinc118.pinc.com [199.60.118.118]) by carver.pinc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA25537; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <331DE9D5.6D14@pinc.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 13:47:01 -0800 From: Inger Kronseth Reply-To: bbright@pinc.com Organization: West Kootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frasera@amath.washington.edu, spec@alternatives.com, ozone-list@IslandNet.com, sicc@sk.sympatico.ca, NanooseNet@island.net, r2ci@romulus.sun.csd.unb.ca Subject: NN: Jumbo Glacial Mountains: Wildlife Habitat or Ski Resort? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-nanoosenet@mail.island.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: NanooseNet@mail.island.net X-UIDL: 68d8647608e875cbda11c2f0415e4b2d Jumbo Glacial Mountains: Wildlife Habitat or Ski Resort? March 1997 in the Kootenays, British Columbia by Inger Kronseth c/o bbright@pinc.com While the bears are still asleep in their dens, the sleeping females nursing their lively cubs, humans debate their fate around conference tables, in the media, and through submissions to the Environmental Assessment Project Review Committee (EAPRC). It seems so simple: do we want to keep the Jumbo Creek Valley with its glaciers, the neighbouring Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, the creeks and glaciers west and east of Jumbo Creek OR do we want Jumbo Glacier Resort Proposal to create a ski village with all the lifts and the gondola, with a town site of five hundred dwellings, with shops, hotels, restaurants and with a population of over seven thousand people? It is not simple. The debate has gone on for seven years. The proponent, Oberto Oberti, claiming his village will have little impact on wildlife maintains that there are hardly any grizzly bears to worry about. The opposition, steadily growing in numbers since 1990, wants to save what they, supported by wildlife biologists, see as a special wildlife habitat for the grizzly bears. After a delay of fifteen months the Environmental Assessment Project Review Committee came out with its Draft Report Specifications for the public to comment on and for the proponent to guide him in his final report. The Public Advisory Committee, a small representation of people for and against the proposal, including some middle-of-the-road people, had about forty hours of meetings without reaching consensus of the vital question of wildlife habitat versus the resort proposal. The committee made some suggested changes to the EAPRC's specifications. The EAPRC took ten hours while they listened to PAC, Mr. Vance from Whistler, and Oberto Oberti with his special consultant, Glen Stuart, and Roger Madson who wants to keep his heli-skiing tenure in the Jumbo Creek area. Oberti, defending his dream, spending millions of faithful investor's dollars, is utterly frustrated, maintaining the opposition consists of a bunch of activists, "malicious", "guerillas", "totally misinformed". One complaint (of many) he has is the opposition's title for his dream: "Mega Project". "It would be less than one thousand acres," he says, "including thirty acres for the village." And what is 500 dwellings compared to Whistler for instance? The "malicious guerillas" call it a Mega Project because they see it from a Kootenay perspective. "The opposition to the Public Advisory Committee just want to have the research go on forever," he complains. **** What the opposition wants is a thorough research study, especially on grizzly bear habitat, but also on the bull trout, the rest of the wildlife, and on the flora. As well it is concerned about the cumulative impact on the neighbouring drainage. There was no agreement on these issues in spite of well documented information by wildlife biologists. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW? EAPRC will come up with a final specification report. Oberti will do his report which will then be evaluated by EAPRC and the public. Maybe there will be public hearings. Maybe the two ministers, Hon. Cathy McGregor, Minister of Environment Lands and Parks, and Hon. Dan Miller, Deputy Premier & Minister of Employment and Investment will decide after hearing EAPRC"s recommendation to reject or to accept the proposal. So the battle between grizzly friends and resort friends continues. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: B.C. government's website: http//www.eao.gov.bc.ca Public Registries, Victoria 836 Yates Street Vancouver Public Library, Main Branch 350 West Georgia St. Public Libraries in Cranbrook, Invermere, Nelson Government Office in Kaslo, B.C. In the libraries you may need to contact the librarian to find the papers. You will find an overwhelming opposition to the jumbo resort proposal which are heartening for us "guerillas" to read. KEEP THE LETTERS COMING IN. Send them to: Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC, V8V 1X4 Premier Glen Clark Hon. Dan Miller, Deputy Premier & Minister of Employment & Investment Hon. Cathy McGregor, Minister of Environment, Lands & Parks Hon. David Zirnhelt, Minister of Forests Hon. Jan Pullinger, Minister of Small Business, Tourism & Culture Hon. Lois Boone, Minister of Transportation & Highways All the above ministries have representatives on the Environmental Assessment Project Review Committee for Jumbo. It is a lot to ask, but really important. Please send copies to: MLA Jim Doyle, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Employment & Investment Hon. Corky Evans, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Both are MLA's for the Kootenay region, address: Parliament Bldgs, Victoria, BC, V8V 1X4. As well, please send copies to Ray Crook, Director, EAPRC, 836 Yates St. Victoria, B.C., V8V 1X4. We know several of you have sent submissions in support of protecting Jumbo Creek's wildlife habitat. We thank you from all our hearts. West Kootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild Matt Lowe, Marilyn Burgoon, Glada McIntyre, Colleen McCrory, Grant Trower, Inger Kronseth. FAXES YOU CAN USE: (250)361-4776, 250-354-4615, 250-358-7950. Inger's phone # in Victoria 250-386-9549. You can also reply or send copies of your correspondence etc. to Inger Kronseth c/o: bbright@pinc.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From ???@??? Fri Mar 07 16:00:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0w33tQ-0006cIC for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.50.2.86] (io2p21.ark.com [204.50.2.86]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA14075; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:57:55 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:57:55 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Conference "gpty.canada" , bcgreens-l@mars.ark.com, micec@onenw.org From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com Subject: single agenda groups for money (fwd) Cc: NanooseNet@island.net X-UIDL: 54f1ece156943508cc2bcb4de13c6743 the following is from caj-list (canadidan association of journalits) for all you rich one issue types...probably includes peace orgs although that might mean two (or more) issue groups like ncc. we will probably hear more on this issue and some of you may want to listen in...email majordomo@eagle.ca with message: subscribe caj-list. ernie yacub At 05:03 AM 07/03/97 -0500, you wrote: >Perhaps the CAJ chould invite "greenies" to participate in some events - >maybe a conference to investigate/promote the groups relationships with >journalists? I would think that this would be an eyeopener for all. > >Willi Nolan WHY?? Environmental groups have a single agenda, that being to manipulate peoples emotions to make money. They have successfully manipulated the media for years into carrying the "unpaid advertising" as editorial content. Now that the media seems to be catching on or are becoming dis-interested we are being accused of bias. All single interest groups are just that...and by definition are shallow, predictable and incapable of intellectual discussion past there own objectives...whatever the flavor of the week is in trendy causes. Environmentalism is just another religion/ political movement and should be treated as such. I think we have learned all we need to know from the environmental groups, thanks for the offer. Greg Locke Chair, The Photojournalism Caucus St. John's, Newfoundland Canadian Association of Journalists greg.locke@nf.sympatico.ca http://marlo.eagle.ca/caj locke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca "...if you don't like the news, go make some of your own..." lisa gregoire responds: thank you for validating my scepticism. I thought I was the only one who felt manipulated. I refuse to feel guilty anymore for my so-called "anti-green bias" I'm not anti-anything. I'm pro-fact. I thought that was what reporters were supposed to be. LGREGOIR@dailygleaner.com ------------------------------------------------------- The caj-list is run automatically by Majordomo version 1.93. To post to the list Reply To "caj-list@eagle.ca" To respond privately to the poster just click Reply To unsubscribe send a message to "majordomo@eagle.ca" with "unsubscribe caj-list" in the BODY Please mail questions to owner-caj-list@eagle.ca From ???@??? Tue Mar 11 02:05:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-28.islandnet.com [198.53.175.28] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0w3zI1-0006bdC for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:14:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:14:33 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth From: "Dave Cull" (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- When corporations go grassroots X-UIDL: ffa5dafe2ce726c526cc57f03d899c90 A CLEAR View Volume 4 Number 4 March 4, 1997 Notable Quotes: "And if the problem is to be rectified, it's more easily rectified by getting poor people better air conditioning in the summertime. The way to solve that [the pollution problem] is not by raising their utility bills." C. Boyden Gray's solution to resolve the fight between industry and the Environmental Protection Agency over proposals to toughen pollution regulations under the Clean Air Act. (_The Washington Post_ 2/17/97) "The effects of ozone are not that serious. I hate to say that, but what we are talking about is a temporary loss in lung function of 20 to 30 percent. That's not really a health affect." Automobile Manufacturers Association spokesman. *1 Industry Attacks Proposed Clean Air Safeguards ** A group of young men and women wearing big red buttons chat excitedly at the lobby elevators. Some rattle a pocketful of buttons, while others adjust safety pins, smooth denim shirts, corduroys or jeans, tie shoelaces and cinch belts. Once inside the elevator, one woman says to the others, "Do you think we look casual enough?" The group laughs and someone else says, "This is fun" while another says, "Where did we come up with this slogan?" A man in a flannel shirt wears buttons front and back of his shirt so the words "Show Me the Science" and "CSE" can be seen coming and going. The elevator doors open and the "grassroots activists" stride down the hall to 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, where a debate between the Citizens for a Sound Economy and the Sierra Club will soon begin. _Orchestrated Attacks._ In recent years, these orchestrated "grassroots" events have been a part of every industry supported campaign attacking regulatory proposals meant to safeguard public health and the environment. From seat belts, to clean water and air, to food, industry has attacked proposed public safety legislation using the same tactics and arguments that in every case have proven wrong. Anti-environmentalists routinely manufacture grassroots, argue that individual Americans are responsible for pollution and health hazards, and claim that "the science isn't there" concerning whether the public's health would be protected by the proposed regulations. And since, as they unreasonably argue, the science is inconclusive or weak, the risks to public or the environment cannot justify billions of dollars of industry costs.. These tactics have a history. Grassroots manufacturing was called "Astroturf" by former senator Lloyd Bentson (_E Magazine_, David Helvarg, Nov/Dec 1996). Consumer Reports notes that the American Petroleum Institute retained the public relations firm Beckel Cowan in 1989 to organize "Americans Against Unfair Gas Taxes," a national organization of over 15,000 members. The National Association of Manufacturers orchestrated a "grass-roots" letter and phone-in campaign to undermine the greenhouse tax idea. (_In These Times_, David Helvarg, 4/96). Charles W. Bailey, in "Snakes in the Grass," (_The Washington Monthly_, 9/96) quotes a Washington public relations man as saying "The purpose of the grassroots program is not to get more Americans involved in the political system. The purpose of the grassroots program is one purpose, period, and that is to influence legislative policy." According to John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton in _Toxic Sludge is Good For You_ (Common Courage Press),"astroturfing" is just one of the tactics used by corporate front groups. The tobacco lobby years ago pushed the idea that individuals are responsible for health hazards and pollution. Industry has exploited that perception ever since. The Keep America Beautiful campaign (comprised of a coalition of glass, paper and aluminum companies) in the 1970's took its cue from the tobacco lobby when it ran ads telling the American public to pick up its litter while the ad showed a Native American with a tear running down its cheek. At the same time, the same corporations were battling against the passage of a bottle bill in Congress. Another tactic involves convincing the public that the "science isn't there" to decide whether or not safety mandates are necessary. Industry has claimed that global warming doesn't exist, despite a plethora of peer-reviewed studies. After chanting the mantra "Show Me the Science," industry argues inconclusive studies fail to justify the costs to industry, which they say would bankrupt their businesses. From clean water and clean air regulations, to mandating seat belts, to removing pesticides from food, industry has said "not enough science" and "costs too much." And they've been wrong. _Current Campaign._ Industry is at it again with a campaign waged by Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the Air Quality Standards Coalition (AQSC) to attack EPA's proposed clean air standards. The standards would tighten regulations on ozone emissions and particulate matter -- fine particulates emitted by electric utilities, steel mills, oil refineries, paper mills, cement kilns, and cars and trucks. (For more information, see Environmental Working Group's report "Particulate Air Pollution: Human Mortality, Pollution Sources And the Case for Tougher Clean Air Standards"). The stricter standards would help protect the public health in general and children in particular. CSE, chaired by former Bush White House General Counsel C. Boyden Gray, has been a major player in attacking the clean air proposals. CSE was founded in 1984 as both a think tank and a grassroots organization that promotes a free market, non-regulatory approach to public policy. CSE advocates the privatization of public lands and claims active state chapters in Texas, New York, Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Jersey with a membership of 250,000. (A detailed account of the individuals and groups behind the anti- clean air campaign is available. Ask CLEAR for its Fact Sheet on the clean air proposals or find it on our website at .) The anti-clean air campaign took-off last year when leaders of CSE met with elite corporate lobbyists throughout 1996 trying to secure financing for a new grass-roots lobbying project: a "multiyear, multimillion- dollar effort to overhaul the nation's environmental regulations." (_National Journal_, 7/13/96) Several meetings took place at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) headquarters to garner financial backing for a campaign to target national and local media markets, pitch stories to local news sources, and include rallies and telephone banks to patch calls to Representatives offices. (_National Journal), 7/13/96) The campaign has received money from such groups as the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council and the Chemical Manufacturers Association. CSE's budget has quadrupled from $4 million in 1991 to $17.6 million last year. Also waging a campaign against the stronger clean air standards is the American Petroleum Institute (API), a lobbying arm for the oil industry. API, along with CSE, has been chanting the mantra "the science isn't there" in the face of stricter clean air standards. At a recent Congressional hearing API handed out Air Quality Standard Coalition-labeled press packets with quotes arguing inconclusive science: "EPA has found little evidence that a tighter standard will be more protective of the small portion of Americans who are considered the sensitive population." Other statements emphasized the cost of the proposed standards to consumers. Suellen W. Pirages, Ph.D of the International Center for Toxicology and Medicine in Rockville, MD, spoke at a mid-February press conference held by API and Air Quality Standard Coalition. She said the real problem is indoor air "caused by smoking, dust, human activities" and that the best way to protect health would be to regulate indoor -- not outdoor -- air. API has pushed the oil industry's agenda in the past. In fact, API held a strategy meeting in 1996 to "figure out how their drive to rewrite environmental laws blew up in their faces and to see if they could do better next time." At the meeting were free-market advocates such as Jonathan H. Adler of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Michael Block of the Progress & Freedom Foundation. According to notes of the meeting taken by API consultant Arnold Moore, "the industry folks should not have gone after the Delaney Clause, which prohibits known carcinogens from going into food," also, industry should have considered that "the Clean Water Act is really sacrosanct." One person suggested that "the Republicans should say that they are not cutting the EPA budget to harm the environment. They are cutting because EPA is wasting money, and catering to the special interests, like the ethanol lobby." (_The Washington Post_, Al Kamen, Feb. 12, 1996). Another group emphasizing the cost-to-industry argument is the Air Quality Standards Coalition (AQSC), a 600-member business coalition formed by the National Association of Manufacturers to convince the Clinton administration that the science behind the EPA's proposed standards cannot justify tightened standards. Membership includes major corporations and trade associations such as the American Petroleum Institute, Geneva Steel, Chevron, DuPont and the American Automobile Manufacturers Association. Members have reportedly pitched in from $5,000 to $100,000 each toward the campaign. (_L.A. Times_, 1/15/97) The AQSC meetings are hosted by the National Association of Manufacturers. The AQSC is headed by C. Boyden Gray who also chairs CSE and who currently works for Geneva Steel. _Activists Beware._ Identifying the strategy of pro- industry groups helps to disarm them. It behooves activists across the country to recognize that the latest campaign attacking public safety standards is similar to previous anti-public health and safety campaigns. What to do? When you see false claims being made, write letters to the editors refuting industry arguments. Emphasize the facts. Beware of who is posing as the "grassroots". For instance, one of the representatives for industry at the CSE v. Sierra Club debate was former mayor of Madison, WI, Joel Skornicka, executive director of the Coalition for Environmental Action and Responsibility (CLEAR). ALthough it employs a green- sounding name, this group actually represents mayors (who met through the National League of Mayors but is not affiliated to it) against "unfunded mandates." As always contact us, the Clearinghouse for Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR), with your comments or for a copy of the CLEAR Fact Sheet on who's who behind the anti-clean air campaign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT From ???@??? Thu Mar 06 19:56:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: from BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA [142.32.161.61] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0w2h3z-0006dDC for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:34:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Received: from BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA by BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0593; Thu, 06 Mar 97 09:18:52 PST Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 09:18:52 PST From: "Peter Ronald" To: emerald@IslandNet.com Subject: Car Sharing is taking off X-UIDL: f55635a4550218b9805f2ccb93d3c2fa To: EMERALD --INTERNET emerald@IslandNet. Attached is a recent blurb about a car share effort in Oregon. As you may know, there is a great deal going on locally and beyond in this sphere. ALT-TRANSPORT is one of the places that info is shared on this subject. Are you a member of the Fernwood "pod", as Guy puts it? Is this an initiative you are really keen on (i.e. does it fire your interest), or are you content to be a user of the service and not an evangelist for it. I realize you don't yourself drive. Any plans to change that condition? Enquiring minds ... -- Peter Ronald Email: pjronald@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca Strategic & Corporate Planning Phone: 250-953-6168 B.C. Ferry Corporation Fax: 250-380-3029 From ???@??? Wed Mar 12 23:46:46 1997 To: peter ronald From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Car Sharing is taking off Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: >Are you a member of the Fernwood "pod", as Guy puts it? Is this an >initiative you are really keen on (i.e. does it fire your interest), or >are you content to be a user of the service and not an evangelist for it. I suppose, although one doesn't yet exist. Kealey is keen on helping as time permits to get one launched in the neighbourhood. It would be tremendously more convenient than hiking down to James Bay every time you want to use a car. >I realize you don't yourself drive. Any plans to change that condition? I don't ever want to drive. But Kealey, and others, would very much like me to have a licence. In the end, i suppose i'll probably get one. From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 22:39:42 1997 To: MLA BC From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Transit fares Cc: bc transit Bcc: X-Attachments: I for one will be turning in my payroll bus pass for a bicycle if any rate increase is more than inflation. And i suspect there are a lot more like me. If you really mean what you say about how important it is to get cars off the road, then put your money where your mouth is. Transit needs support. Charge the polluting car drivers, not the transit riders. Sincerely, Al Rycroft From ???@??? Mon Mar 24 23:17:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-36.islandnet.com [198.53.172.36] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0w9QSz-0006bbC for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 23:16:21 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 23:16:21 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: News Victoria-- PSA: Earth Walk 1997 X-UIDL: 477b602f27e66cc3d3d846f6912ad354 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT For IMMEDIATE Release: March 25 to April 16, 1997 Earth Walk 1997 Saturday, April 26th, is the 16th annual Earth Walk. Local musicians and speakers will highlight peace, justice and the environment all afternoon. It all starts at 12 noon, at Victoria City's Centennial Square. The Earth Walk then proceeds down Government Street to the Legislative Grounds, where a festival begins at 1 pm. Volunteers are invited to help make Earth Walk 1997 a great event. For more information, call 642-5120. - 30 - INFORMATION: Roy McFarlane, Earth Walk Cttee, 388-5834 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Wed Mar 26 17:30:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.48] [198.53.172.67] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0w9z5y-0006c9C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:14:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:14:54 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: Victoria as an EcoCity X-UIDL: 27ad81d62d1d8e3ecbac105e3a399d24 Status: U Dear friends, Next Tuesday night, April 1st, at UVic Begbie 159, at 7:30pm, there is a public forum here in Victoria which might appeal to you on : 'The EcoCity : Why Not ?' I shall be presenting a half hour vision of the future of Victoria as an EcoCity, with slides, followed by Laura Acton, talking about some of the existing ways in which Victoria encourages and discourages EcoCity initiatives. Laura has been a city councillor for many years, and ran for Mayor of Victoria last November. After that, there's an impressive panel addressing the same question, with Mike Skene (City of Victoria Manager of Transportation) Sandra Mark (Victoria Street Community Association) Mike Williams (Chief Engineer, CRD) Ken Stratford (Greater Victoria Economic Development Commission) James MacKinnon (Editor, Monday Magazine) Gene Miller (Developer/planner. Founder of Monday Magazine and Open Space) There's also an EcoCity Fair, with booths and displays, starting at 7pm. As I see it, this is all part of the wider vision of Victoria as a transformed city, existing in harmony with nature, with the Earth and with its own people. With best wishes, Guy Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Updated Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Sat Apr 05 21:06:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wDc7b-0006bhC for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.50.2.111] (io3p14.ark.com [204.50.2.111]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02386; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:32:35 -0800 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:32:35 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ark-misc@mars.ark.com, Conference "gpty.canada" , micec@onenw.org From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com Subject: Brain Food: Eichman, "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" (fwd) X-UIDL: 3f35281e10507bd2dc82ad4fb9371093 Aloha! This is latest mailing to the BRAIN FOOD mailing list. You are receiving this mailing because you are subscribed to the list. If you do not want to receive these mailings (perhaps four or five per year), type UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject and send it back to me. ================================================================= File Retrieval System If you want me to send you any of the following files, just put an X at END of the name and send this back to me. THERMODYNAMICS_AND_THE_SUSTAINABILITY_OF_FOOD_PRODUCTION THE_FATAL_FREEDOM KNOW_THYSELF THE_4P_APPROACH_TO_DEALING_WITH_SCIENTIFIC_UNCERTAINTY WHAT_IS_THE_GENUINE_PROGRESS_INDICATOR_(GPI) ECONOMIST'S_STATEMENT_ON_GLOBAL_WARMING NAS_AND_RS_STATEMENT UCS_WARNING_TO_HUMANITY 58_ACADEMIES_ON_POPULATION ================================================================= "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling" by Jay Hanson 04/01/97 "... the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices from the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." -- J. M. Keynes, 1935 "The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie." -- Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 . . . .......... the problem Lying madmen in authority are driving humanity into a mass grave. The theoretical justification for this wholesale slaughter comes from political philosophers and economists who assume that people are rational. They are wrong. .......... the warning In 1992, both the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London warned in a joint statement that science and technology may NOT be able to save us: "If current predictions of population growth prove accurate and patterns of human activity on the planet remain unchanged, science and technology may not be able to prevent either irreversible degradation of the environment or continued poverty for much of the world." "The future of our planet is in the balance. Sustainable development can be achieved, but only if irreversible degradation of the environment can be halted in time. The next 30 years may be crucial." [1] Never before in history had the two most prestigious groups of scientists in the world issued a joint statement! Now, five of these years are gone, and global devastation is still increasing exponentially while giant trans-national corporations relentlessly drive billions towards their deaths: "West Africa is becoming THE symbol of worldwide demographic, environmental, and societal stress, in which criminal anarchy emerges as the real 'strategic' danger. Disease, overpopulation, unprovoked crime, scarcity of resources, refugee migrations, the increasing erosion of nation-states and international borders, and the empowerment of private armies, security firms, and international drug cartels are now most tellingly demonstrated through a West African prism. West Africa provides an appropriate introduction to the issues, often extremely unpleasant to discuss, that will soon confront our civilization." [2] Yet America's politicians are calling for more business as usual (plunder as usual): "With the ... plan for economic growth, our economy will achieve its full potential with 3.5 percent -- or higher -- growth per year, putting our country back on the right track and giving every American family the chance to achieve the American Dream." [3] "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Brings Freedom) the sign over the gates of Auschwitz, placed there by Major Rudolf Hoss, commandant of the camp. [4] What's wrong with our politicians? Why can't they see that they are leading us all to a dead end? They can't see because they have money in their eyes -- corporate money. All corporations use the same formula: destruction for profit -- and then use the profit for bribes. An executive with the influential public-relations firm of Hill & Knowlton describes the corporate death grip this way: "The big corporations, our clients, are scared shitless of the environmental movement. They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side -- if they can be heard. They think the politicians are going to yield to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong, they're the establishment. The environmentalists are going to have to be like the mob in the square in Romania before they prevail." [5] What can be done in the 25 years we have left? Probably nothing, because corporations like it the way it is, and as long as they can make enough profit to bribe our politicians, it will stay that way. According to Victor Crawford, a former lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute: "If you ever want to see a bunch of cowboys work, watch Philip Morris. They are tough. I mean they shoot from the hip. ... and they're getting bolder. It's a take- no-prisoners fight. You're talking about $100 billion a year in gross profits . ... And man, anything goes. And anything will go." [6] And what "goes" in American politics is bribery: "Regardless of party affiliation, tobacco PAC contributions are the clearest indicator of how legislators vote on bills affecting tobacco. And in many cases, voting records of legislators don't match their rhetoric." [7] It's easy to see our bribed politicians as little more than high-priced whores -- new whores every two years -- a bit like changing sheets when they get too dirty. Unfortunately, it's no joke when mass murder is part of the sex act! During the last 40 years, roughly 17 million Americans have been killed by tobacco smoke while tobacco companies have pocketed something like a thousand billion dollars. Moreover, all of us watched tobacco company CEOs lie to Congress on television -- and apparently get away with it. Lying, stonewalling, and killing for 40 years!! Congressional Testimony on April 14, 1994: "Philip Morris research does not establish that smoking is addictive." [8] How can corporations get away with murder? The theoretical justification for corporate murder rests on the fatal fiction that people are "rational" [9] and are only getting what they have rationally chosen. Phillip Morris statement: "Smoking is a personal choice, and so is quitting." ................ the fatal fiction From Plato to our present society, we can trace the history of the idea of reason through the work of Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, and especially the English philosopher John Locke. In 1664, Locke argued that there is a natural law governing humans and that it can be known by human reason: "And reason ... teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." In 1776, Adam Smith placed reason at the heart of capitalism. Smith said that laissez-faire (let alone) economics would allow rational, self-interested individuals to raise the wealth of the working class automatically, as if by an "Invisible Hand." Thus, human reason became the cornerstone of modern political and economic theory. But not everyone agreed that people are driven by reason. In 1739, the Scottish philosopher David Hume argued people were not driven by reason, but by passions. .................................. reason is the slave of the passions "Nothing is more usual in philosophy, and even in common life, than to talk of the combat of passion and reason, to give the preference to reason, and to assert that men are only so far virtuous as they conform themselves to its dictates. Every rational creature, 'tis said, is oblig'd to regulate his actions by reason; and if any other motive or principle challenge the direction of his conduct, he ought to oppose it, till it be entirely subdu'd, or at least brought to a conformity with that superior principle. On this method of thinking the greatest part of moral philosophy, ancient and modern, seems to be founded ... In order to shew the fallacy of all this philosophy, I shall endeavour to prove first, that reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will; and secondly, that it can never oppose passion in the direction of the will." -- David Hume, TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE Modern evolution theory agrees with Hume. It finds that the human brain is, in large part, a machine for winning arguments, a machine for convincing its owner and others that its owner is right. The brain is like a good lawyer: it defends the passions of its owner -- no matter how odious -- by trying to convince the world with moral claims and logic. Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory -- not truth -- and like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than for virtue. Thus, people are NOT rational [10]. ............ friendly fire According to Robert Wright, "We are far from the only dishonest species, but we are probably the most dishonest, if only because we do the most talking." [11] This is how tobacco companies lie by implication and omission, in order to transform passions into profits: "The advertising imagery used to promote tobacco use among young people particularly appeals to those with low self esteem and emotional insecurity. ... One of the best examples of this was the transformation of Marlboro Cigarettes from a red-tipped cigarette for women to the cigarette for the macho cowboy. ... The wild spirit of the Marlboro man captured the adolescent imagination. ... In the late 1980's the advertising theme for Vantage cigarettes began to feature professional- caliber athletes like wind surfers, aerobic dancers, downhill ski-racers, and auto-racers. These advertisements depict physical activity requiring strength or stamina beyond those of everyday activity, i.e., smoking does not harm you." "During the 1980's, advertising for Salem cigarettes also became more youth-oriented. Whereas the dominant advertising theme for Salem cigarettes used to be clean fresh country air, during the 1980's Salem ads were populated by muscular surfers and beach bunnies, fun-loving party animals, and other attractive adolescent role models. ... Newport ads frequently show men and women in sexually suggestive positions always having fun using the slogan 'Alive with pleasure.' ... Another successful advertising campaign has been the 'You've come a long way baby' campaign promoting Virginia Slims cigarettes. One of the most important psychological needs of most adolescent girls is to become independent from their parents. By associating smoking with women's liberation, Philip Morris hopes to create in the minds of these teenage girls the vision of smoking as a symbol of autonomy and independence. ... The ultimate status symbol and secret desire of almost every teenage boy is a powerful motorcycle. It is for this reason that so many cigarette brands have used motorcycle imagery to encourage teenage boys to smoke. ... The greatest success that Reynolds had in its effort to gain on Philip Morris in the youth market is the 'Joe Camel' cartoon character. ..." [12] One can see advertising as nothing more than passionate lying, and the right-wing credo "do as you damn well please" [13] is a call for "freedom to kill". But how can these lying killers live with themselves? Is there some moral element missing from corporate management? ................... the banality of evil Adolf Eichmann was the Nazi official responsible for the murder of millions of Jews. During World War II, he was in charge of "the final solution of the Jewish problem" which sent Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to their deaths. After the war, Eichmann was tried and convicted of "crimes against humanity", and then hanged. His crime is an extremely serious category of criminal human rights abuse. International law defines crimes against humanity by virtue of their "mass nature" (a large number of victims), and it must also be shown that a group was targeted for mass murder because of its status as a group. RJ Reynolds: "Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market." One of the most striking aspects of the Nazi Holocaust is the totally unremarkable nature of the killers themselves. Eichmann's experience demonstrated how established values can be distorted and twisted by society to make people do unspeakable things to other people. His accomplices included "doctors, lawyers, scholars, bankers, and economists" that planned the necessary steps to exterminate the Jews. It's important to remember that these professionals didn't actually vote on the "final solution", they merely carried out the plan. Here is how the plan is carried out nowadays: "The freedom of the market is not merely the best guarantor of our prosperity, it is the chief guarantor of our rights." [14] What could have transformed these totally unremarkable people into mass murderers? What lies did Adolph Eichmann and these ordinary folks tell themselves so they could sleep at night? RJ Reynolds: "smoking is no more addictive than coffee, tea, or Twinkies." Hannah Arendt discovered that Eichmann did not originally subscribe to mass murder, indeed such a violent solution was alien to him. During discussions at the Wannsee Conference, Eichmann saw, to his great astonishment, that all these respectable people (he had the greatest respect for bourgeois society) not only agreed with his proposals, but followed his remarks on killing Jews eagerly and enthusiastically. He was convinced he must be doing the right thing because no one contradicted him, neither priest nor politician nor one of the bureaucrats -- no one. [15] Eichmann: "At that moment, I sensed a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling, for I felt free of all guilt." After all, who was he to judge? Could the culture of capitalism function as kind of a modern Wannsee Conference for today's corporate mass murderers? Does the belief in human reason give us "a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling"? After all, who are we to judge? Phillip Morris: "Cigarette smoking is not addictive." ............. corporate rule Before the Civil War of 1861, citizens controlled the corporations. Up to that time, corporations were chartered for a specific limited purpose (for example, building a toll road or canal) and for a specific, limited period of time (usually 20 or 30 years). [16] Each corporation was chartered to achieve a specific social goal that a legislature decided was in the public interest. At the end of the corporation's lifetime, its assets were distributed among the shareholders and the corporation ceased to exist. The charter limited the number of owners; the amount of capital they could aggregate was also limited. The owners were personally responsible for any liabilities or debts the company incurred, including wages owed to workers. Often profits were specifically limited in the charter. Corporations were not established merely to "make a profit." Early Americans feared corporations as a threat to democracy and freedom. They feared that the owners (shareholders) would amass great wealth, control jobs and production, buy the newspapers, dominate the courts and control elections (one-dollar- one-vote). Well, our grandfathers were right, that's exactly what happened! What can be done in the 25 years we have left? If the history of corporate rule is any indicator, certainly not enough -- and perhaps nothing. But we DO have a place to start: the tobacco companies. Top management should be tried for "crimes against humanity", and during the course of the trial, put the entire stinking, rotten "do as you damn well please" economic system on trial too! "Philip Morris does not manipulate nor independently control the level of nicotine in our products." BULLSHIT! ----------------------------------------------------------------- References: 1 http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/page7.htm 2 http://csf.colorado.edu/authors/hanson/page67.htm 3 http://www.calgop.org/scvcr/bd0896b.htm 4 http://www.spectacle.org/695/arbeit.html 5 p. 24, WHO WILL TELL THE PEOPLE ,William Greider; Simon and Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-68891-X 6 http://users.aol.com/srampton/Q3-96philip.html 7 http://www.gate.net/~jcannon/documents/961017pr.txt 8 http://www.tobacco-litigation.com/states/statfile/Utah.htm 9 What do economists think most people are like? Believe it or not, ninety percent of the existing economists are working within a framework like this or very near to it: "Rational Man" is described as a person who is an "optimizer" that: a) has a complete knowledge of the set of possible different actions to be undertaken; b) has a complete knowledge of the complete set of the possible states of the world (state space); c) has a subjective probability mapping of the state space; d) has a theory (a very clever theory) that enables him to compute the effective pay-offs of each action in relation to each state of the world; e) optimizes the return of his choice by fully exploiting the available information. [ In brief this person is in a situation that H. Simon describes as "weak substantive uncertainty" and of "no procedural uncertainty", and has "no computational limitations". ] 10 Here I define "rational" as the ability to carefully weigh the important, known variables and make that decision which is most likely to achieve the desired end. People routinely fail this test -- they do not make inferences according to Bayes' Theorem, which is a formula used to calculate the probability that a particular event will occur. They give recently presented information undue importance, thereby producing answers that are not rational. http://csf.colorado.edu/authors/hanson/page19.htm#HAMM http://csf.colorado.edu/authors/hanson/page34.htm#ORNSTEIN http://www.clark.net/pub/wright/chapthir.htm 11 http://www.clark.net/pub/wright/chapthir.htm 12 http://www.tobacco-litigation.com/states/statfile/washsuit.html 13 "There, ladies and gentlemen, you have the Cato Institute's program in a nutshell: government should be against the law." http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-orourke.html 14 http://www.n-jcenter.com/reprise/elect/dole.htm 15 p. 114, EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt; Penguin, 1963; ISBN 0-14-018765-0 16 http://csf.colorado.edu/authors/hanson/page3.htm David Hume is available at: http://www4.torget.se/artbin/art/origo.html ************************************************************** Please copy and reprint or crosspost this article as much as you can. Be sure to include the BRAIN FOOD invitation in the article. This article and others are archived at: http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/ Please join my BRAIN FOOD mailing list. The purpose of this list is to distribute my essays and news. I expect that there will be no more than four of five mailing a year. My work is dedicated to the Common Good. My essays may be freely reprinted and my ideas may be incorporated into other works without credit. The major themes on this list are "systems" and "philosophy". Subtopics may relate to specific disciplines such as politics, economics, theology, and ecology. This is not the type of list where subscribers can enter into a dialog with other list members. This is a manual list that I am running from my home. To join this free list, send : "subscribe BRAIN FOOD" to j@qmail.com [You will get no acknowledgement. If you are already on my list, there is no need to re-subscribe.] Jay From ???@??? Fri Apr 11 22:15:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.62] [198.53.172.80] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wFRKi-0006b8C for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:24:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: LOCAL CRISIS - Shell Canada X-UIDL: b95e842164fce104aa90127e6ee47104 Dear Vancouver Island Friends and EcoNews readers, (others please feel free to delete, and I apologize for any duplicate mailings) There is a personal, health and ecological crisis going on in Fairfield, Victoria, where some friends who live at Hampton House (Steve Balyi, Julie and their 7 year old daughter Alysia) are being gradually poisoned by the unfiltered carcinogenic fumes from the Shell gas station on the corner of Cook and Fairfield. (Full details below) In a nutshell, when gas delivery trucks deliver their fuel, they are normally required by law to recycle the fumes back into the truck, rather than spew them out into the environment. This is the case in 70% of North America. The GVRD and the Province of Ontario and throughout the USA, since the fumes are a major contributant to smog. Here on the Island, however, there is no such requirement, and Steve, Julie, Alysia and the other residents of Hampton House (including a pregnant mother) are at their wits end to stop themselves being poisoned. They receive 3 doses every ten days, and every time the fumes linger in the building for four hours (and up to two days), giving them headaches, nausea and (the most worrying part) other unknown health risks. Steve and Julie have decided that 'enough is enough', and the residents have all decided on a 'zero tolerance' policy. CRD Health, the local fire chief, staff from the Ministry of the Environment are all agreed that the situation is bad, but so far, Shell are refusing to do the right thing, which is either place filters on the stacks, or install a vapor recovery system. Ten days ago, they changed the angle at which the stacks vent, which, just made things worse. Now they are moving the stacks to the other side of the gas station, where they will vent onto the sidewalk,across the road from the food store and day care centre. The full details are below. We know that cancer rates are rising steadily; and that our lives are becoming increasingly chemicalized. This is one small - and very immediate - situation where a solution is available. We need the whole community of Victoria to stand up and say 'NO', that we will NOT tolerate these kind of chemical fumes being released into our environment. What can we do ? (a) Steve and Julie need practical help. Steve writes : "Are there any environmentalists, community organizers, lawyers, chemical engineers or toxicologists out there willing to contribute their expertise ? I need help with editorial, organizational, preparing, creating a flyer, news releases, fundraising, etc. I need practical assistance here, I'm overwhelmed even though I'm devoting my total energies to it." Steve's number is (250) 480-7285, and his email is (b) Call the Fairfield Gas Station (250) 385 2666 and tell the owner that shifting the vents is not good enough, and that you will boycott their station until either filters or a vapor recovery system is put in place. All Chevron trucks on the Island use a recovery system; the cost of installing it pays for itself within 2 years through the resale of the recovered gas. (c) Email Shell Canada at nurse_florence/scan@shellca or call them in Calgary at 1 (800) 661 1600, and ask them to put in filters or a recovery system. Best wishes, Guy SHELL POISONOUS FUMES BACKGROUND Several times every week, since 1989, the owners of the Fairfield Shell gasoline station, vent with impunity, their Poisonous Gasoline Vapors directly into the living quarters of the twenty six families living in the old apartment building known as Hampton House. The Poisonous Gasoline Vapors are forced out of three venting pipes into our homes EVERY TIME the Trimac tanker trucks deliver gasoline to the gasoline station. [Poison n. 1. Any substance that, either taken internally or coming into contact with an organism, acts chemically upon the tissues in such a way as to harm or destroy; toxin 2. Anything that tends to harm, destroy or corrupt.] Poisonous gasoline vapors, in small doses cause headaches, nausea, dizziness and loss of appetite. They have that affect on our seven year old daughter, Alysia and us. In large doses, for example when concentrated in a plastic bag for abuse, they can cause death. We are being fumigated by the owner's of the Fairfield shell gasoline station. "Just close your window," Hamish Crawford, the man who leases the station says. Hampton House, built in 1913, is the oldest tenement in Victoria. One of the last residential buildings in Victoria still heated by steam, it is constantly overheated. Every window which can be open, is always open. There are air vents into every Murphy bed cavity and pantry in the building. According to the MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET (the section on gasoline is compiled by Chevron Oil): Poisonous gasoline vapors "attack the central nervous system and the internal organs if inhaled". The effect is immediate, because, of our five senses, the sense of smell is unique. It is actually an integral part of our central nervous system. The nose draws air sample directly across our brain stems. This is the most sensitive chemical detection meter on earth. Unfortunately for our purpose here, it does not provide a print out. Poisonous gasoline vapors are particularly dangerous to embryos and infants whose central nervous systems are still in the formative stages. There are two or three babies and three or four young children living in Hampton House. The poisonous gasoline vapors are also detrimental to the well being of the elderly and anyone with health problems. This does not minimize the effect on the rest of the population. Gasoline contains Benzene, which is a known carcinogen in human beings and is dangerous to all living things. The other chemicals in gasoline, Ethylbenzene, Xylene-p, Xylene-m, Xylene-o, Toluene, Hexane, Cyclohexane, and Methyl tert butyl ether, are all listed individually as 'toxic chemical" on the MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET. It omits any reference to how toxic these chemicals are in combination. Chevron's MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET rates gasoline as only "slightly Hazardous" to health. It uses a five point scale: 0. - Normal, 1. - Slightly hazardous, 2. - Hazardous, 3. - Extremely hazardous and 4. - Deadly. However, among other things, Chevron's Data Sheet says about gasoline: "This material is considered to be a water pollutant" Considered? Given that this is not an independent publication, given that it in fact is a petroleum industry publication, I suspect that they might be down playing the dangers of their poisonous product. The Fairfield Shell Gasoline Station's venting pipes are there for all to see, just under the windows, at the south end of Hampton House. The venting rack, firmly anchored into two concrete pilings, with its' three tall, dark metal venting pipes and one white PVC pipe is jammed right up to their property line, on Fairfield Shell Gasoline Station's Cook street driveway. Several times a week Trimac Transportation Services Ltd. Delivers thousands of litres of gasoline to the station. They use the largest tanker trailer truck and pup trailer combination allowed by law. The huge tankers come unannounced, on no particular schedule, sometimes in the early morning as we're getting ready for the day, other times at mid-day, last time they came to dump just after nine at night into this residential neighborhood. This is chemical terrorism. The three huge, apparently empty underground holding tanks, which the tanker trucks come to fill, are actually full of poisonous gasoline vapors, like an apparently empty bottle is full of air. The gasoline rushes from the tanker trucks into the underground holding tanks with the great velocity of three hundred plus litres a minute. The great volume of gasoline forces all the poisonous gasoline vapors; both those in the apparently empty tanks and the additional vapors created during the transfer process, into the atmosphere. Each poisonous discharge takes the form of an invisible, giant aerosol plume These gigantic gasoline vapor plumes (one gallon of liquid gasoline vaporizes into a thousand gallons of vapor) can hangover the neighborhood as insidious, invisible clouds or ride the wind to be blown as far as eight kilometres away before they finally disperse into our atmosphere. Gasoline vapor plumes are well known to contribute to smog. Clouds which originate in Fairfield can settle in Oak Bay or the Uplands before they are finally dispersed by the wind. Dispersion is just a word for the process of passing your poisons off onto someone else. The biosphere is a closed system. Fairfield Shell is not alone in spray bombing our atmosphere with poisonous gasoline fumes. There are over one hundred such high volume gasoline stations in the CRD. During the last decade, as the small stations went out of business, the annual pumping volumes at the remaining gasoline stations skyrocketed as the car traffic increased at each one. In order to survive most gasoline stations in North America now pump between one to ten million litres of gasoline at each station every year. In the CRD there are no laws against venting poisonous gasoline vapors into the atmosphere. While the experts argue the finer points of toxicology, we're being administered poison, several times a week, in what we though was the safety of our homes. There is precedent in law against venting poisonous gasoline vapors into the atmosphere but not apparently against venting poisonous gasoline vapors into people's homes. Stage I Gasoline Vapor Recovery refers to a process whereby the vapors from the underground tank are directed back into the tanker trucks so that they can be taken back to the plant, condensed and sold as gasoline. The cost of installing such a system can be recovered over a one to three year period. Stage I Gasoline Vapor Recovery is mandatory in the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), the entire lower Fraser Valley (B.C. Reg. 226-95/O.C.558/95) and nationally in the USA, for air quality reasons, as the chemicals are an important contributor to smog. If all the gas stations in the GVRD and lower Fraser Valley as well as all the gasoline stations in the USA are forced to do Stage I Gasoline Vapor Recovery then why don't we in the CRD have the same protection? I've contacted Shell Canada. They are, "investigating a number of possible alternatives to reduce or eliminate the vapor smell reaching the apartment complex. These range from altering the delivery times, increasing the height of the vents for greater dispersion, relocating the vent rack, filters for the vent system, as well as the possibility of vapor recovery." (From a letter to Brian L. Graves of Glen Eden Management Ltd.from Tim G. Edwards, Shell Canada Products Ltd. March 12, 1997) The issue is not "vapor smell". The issue is the weekly infliction of debilitating headaches, nausea, dizziness, loss of appetite and 'forced' voluntary evacuations. The issue is with the actual long term affects of the poisons chemicals on our central nervous systems and the central nervous systems of our families. Tim Edwards of Shell Canada Products Ltd talks about moving slowly on this matter, he talks about "the possibility of vapor recovery." He tells me that we will be hurting the small business man Hamish Crawford financially if we press for Stage I Recovery of Gasoline Vapors. He tells me it wouldn't be fair to Shell if the entire industry didn't adopt it. How many more tanker loads of poisonous gasoline vapors do we have to endure before the only ecologically viable solution, Stage I Recovery of Gasoline Vapors, is made mandatory. What kind of corporate citizens are these? Are they beyond moral authority? Why are the local, regional, provincial and federal departments of health and environment allowing this to happen? There is no time for lessons in participatory democracy. Our families' health merits immediate action. We're fuming mad and we are not going to take it anymore ! Steve Balyi, Julie and Alysia, (250) 480-7285 Fairfield Shell 1090 Fairfield Street (250) 385 2666 Is Leased by: Hamish Crawford, 1819 McTavish street Sidney BC (250)656-1819 Owned by: Shell Canada Inc. Pres/CEO Charles Wilson 400 - 4th St. SW Calgary AB T2P 0J4 Canada 1 (800) 661 1600 fax (403) 691-4151 www.shellcan.com The Gasoline is delivered by: Trimac Transportation Services Ltd. @ 1(800) 677-4504 Pres: Andrew B. Zaleski 21st floor, 800 5th Ave SW, PO Box 3550 Calgary AB T2P 2P9 Hampton House is Managed by: Glen Eden Group, @550 - 2950 Douglas, Victoria BC Ph(250)920- 4880 Fax: 920-4881 and Owned by: J 112 Freecorp Holdings Ltd. @550 - 2950 Douglas, Victoria BC Ph(250)920- 4880 Fax: 920-4881; Director & President: Richard Paul Richmond and Director & Secretary: Kerry R.D. Lang TANKS A MILLION UPDATE, THURSDAY APRIL 10th Despite our pleas for testing on humanitarian grounds to find out what it is that we have been exposed to and ease our anxiety, and ignoring our demands for the standard, industry and government accepted solutions (filtering or Stage 1 Recovery), Shell is simply moving the vents to the other side of their site, so that they will be further away fom our apartment. This means that they will spew right onto the sidewalk, across from the food store and daycare centre, spreading the risk onto our neighbours, without any real relief to us. This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. It looks like the start of a protracted battle to force Shell to DO THE RIGHT THING. The Fairfield Community Association has agreed to host and organize an all-party stakeholders meeting on Tuesday April 15th, with an independent facilitator, but we have no idea if Shell will agree to attend. Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Updated Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Wed Apr 09 22:30:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-30.islandnet.com [198.53.172.30] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wFDF1-0006e0C for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 23:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 23:21:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: nvoth@estreet.com (Nick Voth (admin)) (by way of Howard Breen ) (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO BC-- GREENPEACE CO-FOUNDER IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE X-UIDL: 6950fa24ed13bb1142654a4eb6889a91 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society GREENPEACE CO-FOUNDER IN FIGHT OF HIS LIFE April 4, 1997. For immediate release Contact: Lisa Distefano (310) 301-7325 Court mandates extradition hearing for whaling foe Paul Watson Paul Watson, president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and long-time proponent of direct-action environmentalism, was seized Wednesday by Netherlands police acting on behalf of the Norwegian government. Three days earlier, Watson had been arrested by German authorities and then released when they declined to extradite to Norway. Norway wants Watson to serve a sentence handed down when he was convicted in absentia for anti-whaling protest activities in Norway. "This is an election year in Norway, and Paul's life is the floundering prime minister's ticket to election. Holland has unintentionally involved itself in the politics of Norway's election and the politics of illegal whaling. As well, Holland does not know that Paul has received specific death threats from Norwegians for years," said Sea Shepherd's International Director Lisa Distefano. "If Paul is imprisoned in Norway, we know he'll never leave alive." Watson, a co-founder of Greenpeace, has actively opposed Norway's illegal commercial whaling operations since 1992, when Norway began openly violating the global moratorium on whaling imposed in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission. Watson was arrested March 31st by German authorities in the port of Bremerhaven while supervising the transfer of a Sea Shepherd vessel in preparation for a campaign against illegal drift netting in the Mediterranean. He was seized Wednesday by Dutch police in Amsterdam. At a preliminary hearing on Thursday in The District of Haarlem Court, Judge Toeter ordered Watson held for 20 days to allow Norway to make a formal request for extradition. "Since 1986 it has been illegal to kill whales, and Norway has defied that law," said Watson. "We have continued to focus our protest activities on Norway's illegal whaling. We will put Norway on trial in the Netherlands court and use this opportunity to further expose Norway's illegal activities to the world." "We are asking everyone who cares about whales and the future of the living oceans to stand up and help Paul. We're asking them to write their elected representatives, call their embassies, call the Foreign Office in the Netherlands and U.S. and Canadian consulates in Norway, and protest this persecution of a man who is making a difference," requests Distefano. For further information contact the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society at Tel: (310) 301-7325. Fax: (310) 574-3161. C 1997 - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ***************************** Sent From Nick Voth System Administrator E Street Communications, Inc. From ???@??? Tue Apr 15 22:32:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wH3g8-0006axC for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.50.2.130] (io1p11.ark.com [204.50.2.44]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA27108; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:35:43 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:35:43 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sovernet-l@speakeasy.org, ark-misc@mars.ark.com, micec@onenw.org From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com Subject: FAN/Nuxalk action in Manchester, UK X-UIDL: f2d490e9367aa94a21bb811000e6b0d1 ___ ____ / / / /| / /-- /---/ / | / / . / /. / |/. F O R E S T A C T I O N N E T W O R K Box 625, Bella Coola, BC, Canada V0T 1C0 EMAIL fan@alternatives.com TEL 604-799-5800 FAX 604-799-5830 VANCOUVER TEL 604-739-4782 ___________________________________________________________________ FAN AND NUXALK 'ETHICALLY SHOPLIFT' TIMBER IN MANCHESTER, UK Timber stolen from the Nuxalk Nation (an indigenous people from the northwest coast of Canada), was recovered from a UK timber yard on Wednesday, April 9th. The timber has been handed to the police who have been asked to keep it while they investigate the rightful owner. They have also been asked to prosecute the yard for handling stolen property. The Nuxalk have never sold or ceded their lands, signed them away by treaty, or lost them in battle, so they consider the timber to rightfully be their property. About 40 activists from Forest Action Network UK invaded the 7-acre yard of International Timber in Manchester on Wednesday. They climbed the roof of the storage sheds with banners saying 'STOP BUYING STOLEN TIMBER' and 'INTERFOR AND MAC-BLO: TIMBER THIEVES', while other activists below 'reclaimed' 15 or so planks of Western Red Cedar. Four Nuxalk people, including Hereditary Chief Qwatsisnas, Snuxyaltwa, and Kw'puts. Dressed in traditional regalia, they assembled outside the yard and witnessed the liberation of their property. The timber was then taken to the local police station while hard-hats looked on in disbelief. Assorted police and their cars arrived and milled around, not quite able to cope with the fact that the protesters tried to hand them the timber. The timber, shipped by Interfor and MacMillan Bloedel, two vast companies which clearcut on Nuxalk lands, was carried to the local police station. After an hour of negotiation, Chief Inspector Kirby finally issued a receipt for the timber and retained it in the station. However, he refused to talk to the Nuxalk people, as he was clearly uncomfortable with what was becoming a (minor) international incident. On the following day, the police told FAN that they were talking with the Canadian Embassy, as they were uncertain how to proceed. The protesters insisted that International Timber, it's parenet company Meyer International, and all other companies handling timber from the Canadian rainforest should be prevented from selling any more until the issue of legal ownership of the timber has been dealt with For more information contact: Forest Action Network UK c/o 4 Kingsley House Avonmore Place London W14 8RY TEL +44 171 602 5889 EMAIL wildwood@gn.apc.org, higgs@envirolink.org Pictures of the action are available on the internet at: http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/fan/uk From ???@??? Wed Apr 16 21:06:20 1997 To: peter ronald From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: FAN/Nuxalk action in Manchester, UK Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: ___ ____ / / / /| / /-- /---/ / | / / . / /. / |/. F O R E S T A C T I O N N E T W O R K Box 625, Bella Coola, BC, Canada V0T 1C0 EMAIL fan@alternatives.com TEL 604-799-5800 FAX 604-799-5830 VANCOUVER TEL 604-739-4782 ___________________________________________________________________ FAN AND NUXALK 'ETHICALLY SHOPLIFT' TIMBER IN MANCHESTER, UK Timber stolen from the Nuxalk Nation (an indigenous people from the northwest coast of Canada), was recovered from a UK timber yard on Wednesday, April 9th. The timber has been handed to the police who have been asked to keep it while they investigate the rightful owner. They have also been asked to prosecute the yard for handling stolen property. The Nuxalk have never sold or ceded their lands, signed them away by treaty, or lost them in battle, so they consider the timber to rightfully be their property. About 40 activists from Forest Action Network UK invaded the 7-acre yard of International Timber in Manchester on Wednesday. They climbed the roof of the storage sheds with banners saying 'STOP BUYING STOLEN TIMBER' and 'INTERFOR AND MAC-BLO: TIMBER THIEVES', while other activists below 'reclaimed' 15 or so planks of Western Red Cedar. Four Nuxalk people, including Hereditary Chief Qwatsisnas, Snuxyaltwa, and Kw'puts. Dressed in traditional regalia, they assembled outside the yard and witnessed the liberation of their property. The timber was then taken to the local police station while hard-hats looked on in disbelief. Assorted police and their cars arrived and milled around, not quite able to cope with the fact that the protesters tried to hand them the timber. The timber, shipped by Interfor and MacMillan Bloedel, two vast companies which clearcut on Nuxalk lands, was carried to the local police station. After an hour of negotiation, Chief Inspector Kirby finally issued a receipt for the timber and retained it in the station. However, he refused to talk to the Nuxalk people, as he was clearly uncomfortable with what was becoming a (minor) international incident. On the following day, the police told FAN that they were talking with the Canadian Embassy, as they were uncertain how to proceed. The protesters insisted that International Timber, it's parenet company Meyer International, and all other companies handling timber from the Canadian rainforest should be prevented from selling any more until the issue of legal ownership of the timber has been dealt with For more information contact: Forest Action Network UK c/o 4 Kingsley House Avonmore Place London W14 8RY TEL +44 171 602 5889 EMAIL wildwood@gn.apc.org, higgs@envirolink.org Pictures of the action are available on the internet at: http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/fan/uk From ???@??? Sun Apr 20 15:58:09 1997 To: guy dauncey From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Econews mailing list change Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Please remove the following (we get it electronically): GVDG Box 8307 Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R9 Thank you, Al Rycroft P.S. The "GVDG" is now the Victoria Peace Centre. P.S. II-- I'm really disappointed you aren't moving to Salt Spring afterall-- who will get things ready for us?! From ???@??? Tue Apr 29 20:54:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: from bctransit.com [199.60.190.2] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wMGXM-0006bzC for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by apollo.bctransit.com id <42242>; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:23:52 -0700 Date:Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:14:57 -0700 From: "Mike Davis" Encoding: 53 Text To: emerald@islandnet.com Subject: Airport Bus Service Message-Id: <97Apr29.102352pdt.42242@apollo.bctransit.com> X-UIDL: e3153ad7df5936367d888816b615bbb0 Mr. Rycroft: thanks for your statement of support. Now let me explain if I can some of the reasons why BC Tranist doesn't go to the airport. 1. Airport passengers generally want direct service to and from downtown. There is not sufficient market for this (evidence - tranist share of travel at Vancouver airport, use of small buses by private carrier at Victoria airport) type of service to justify the very significant expense. (Other service improvements will provide more trips to more people for the same amount of money). 2. A transfer arrangement - for example a shuttle service from the airport to connect with 70 - Pat Bay service at McTavish Park and Ride is already available through BC Tranist and the private airport carrier. There is no reason to duplicate this service at the present time. 3. Transit is not equipeed to deal with luggage. 4. Existing transit services cannot be diverted to the airport without additional expense and without reducing the quality of service to the larger group of passengers. BC Tranist already recieves numerous complaints regarding the fact that transit travel takes significantly longer than auto travel. Adding another diversion for the sake of perhaps 3 to 5 passengers would not be perceived as an improvement to service by most of our Peninsula passengers. I hope this explains some of the rationale behind our decision (so far) to not introduce service to the airport. If you wou;d like to discuss this please call 995 - 5617. Mike Davis Manager, Planning and Scheduling BC Transit - Victoria First off, I want to register my most strenuous objection to the fact that BC Transit does not go into the airport. This is a terrible disservice to the public and only serves to support inefficient and rip-off private "alternatives". And i have a question. A taxi driver recently told me that the airport for the first time gave permission for BC Transit to run a service into the airport, but that BC Transit has refused this offer. Is this true? If so-- why did BC Transit not extend its service "the extra mile" into the airport. A concerned supporter, Al Rycroft From ???@??? Mon Apr 28 23:12:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-58.islandnet.com [198.53.172.58] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wM6rz-0006dSC for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:58:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: tom_bogle@bctransit.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Airport bus Cc: emerald@IslandNet.com X-UIDL: dd0deba5c271202118f24f8901aedf5c First off, I want to register my most strenuous objection to the fact that BC Transit does not go into the airport. This is a terrible disservice to the public and only serves to support inefficient and rip-off private "alternatives". And i have a question. A taxi driver recently told me that the airport for the first time gave permission for BC Transit to run a service into the airport, but that BC Transit has refused this offer. Is this true? If so-- why did BC Transit not extend its service "the extra mile" into the airport. A concerned supporter, Al Rycroft ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Tue Apr 22 18:11:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: from norm.island.net [199.60.19.4] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wJh7s-0006b8a for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by norm.island.net (8.8.5/8.8.5/island) id IAA12196 for nanoosenet-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:06:22 -0700 Received: from Howard.island.net (dyn15.island.net [204.239.42.25]) by norm.island.net (8.8.5/8.8.5/island) with SMTP id IAA12183; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:06:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:06:18 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970422080849.404f794e@mail.island.net> X-Sender: hbreen@mail.island.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hbreen@island.net From: Howard Breen Subject: NN: Sea Shepherd Crew Letter Sender: owner-nanoosenet@mail.island.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: NanooseNet@mail.island.net X-UIDL: d491f7a4e9e102e0676fd95632b2aad1 Hello, So many of you have asked for information on how to apply for a position with the crew of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society that I have decided to send out a general letter to the whole mail list detailing the process. Please contact the office directly if you would like additional information or an application. -Nick Voth SSCS Internet Rep. ======================== CALL FOR PLANETARY DUTY! Thank you so much for inquiring about volunteering to work with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS). We would be grateful to have your assistance, especially since you share our concern about marine mammal wildlife. One of the benefits of being a financial supporter of Sea Shepherd is that you may apply for crew. This means making a minimum yearly contribution of $25. Campaign/Crewing General Description As you may know, SSCS is a direct action organization. We are constantly looking for able crew-members to work aboard our vessels that sail international waters to investigate, document and enforce marine conservation-related laws, regulations and treaties. Crew members are chosen by technical skills, by dedication and commitment, and also by the time that he/she has available. The campaigns can last anywhere from three weeks to three months, so having as much time available as possible and being flexible is very important. Campaign-time includes preparation work on the ship in port, as well as post-campaign wrap-up work to ready the ship for the next campaign. Working on the type of ships we have can involve strenuous work and long hours, but the rewards of saving thousand of lives are immeasurable. During the time of confrontation, in addition to being exciting it can also be quite dangerous, so only the truly brave and committed should apply. At Sea Shepherd, individual initiative is highlighted by the fact that crewmembers take responsibility for their own crewing costs and their own actions. In addition, crewmembers must get themselves to the ship wherever it may be, and be able to get themselves home from wherever the ship may end up. Other Volunteer Positions Needed There may be other types of volunteer-help that are needed, as SSCS is primarily an all-volunteer organization. Wherever Sea Shepherd ships are docked there is a necessity for people to help maintain and clean the vessels between campaigns. If a SSCS ship comes into a port near you, we may need your assistance in cleaning, painting, or helping obtain needed supplies and provisions. If you do not end-up crewing with us on the high seas or in port, perhaps you would like to be added to our Volunteer List in the event that we need assistance where you live. There is the possibility of needing volunteers to work at environmental expositions, special events or on a vessel that may come into a port near you. If you have any specific ideas of something that you could do for Sea Shepherd from where you are, please let us know. Also, the office in Marina del Rey is our world headquarters, consequently we are very busy and often need help with general duties such as computer entry, mailings, errand-running and letter-answer-ing if you are interested in this essential work. What to Do to Get Involved If you were inquiring about applying to become an "on-board" crew member to participate on a campaign, to help in port, to work as an office volunteer, or to volunteer in your home area, please mail a request for the proper application(s) along with your contribution. Please feel free to check with our office any time to find out the current status of port-work or any other types of volunteer work in your area. Thank you for your interest! People like you make it possible for Sea Shepherd to deliver results in our work protecting and conserving marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd Conservations Society P.O. Box 628 Venice, CA 90294 USA Tel: 310-301-SEAL(7325) Fax: 310-574-3161 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From ???@??? Tue Apr 22 18:11:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wJbHE-0006azC for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.50.2.46] (io1p9.ark.com [204.50.2.42]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA06755; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 00:52:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 00:52:01 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ark-misc@mars.ark.com, micec@onenw.org, Conference "gpty.canada" From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com Subject: Insurance Companies Demand Action on Global Warming (fwd) X-UIDL: 00778c63e5478fd48a7c0c4c07d96571 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:09:52 EST From: P A Nichols To: GRAFFIS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: [GRAFFIS-L] Global warming debate still steaming Global warming debate still steaming By Paul Roberts MSNBC Commentary Last month, subscribers to the global warming theory got yet another vote of grim confidence. At a conference in Brussels, insurance company scientists warned not only that climate is changing, but that the resulting storms and other erratic weather could bust the industry. As Gerhard Berz, director of Geoscience Research at the Munich Reinsurance company, told anxious colleagues: "It is to be feared that climate change will produce in nearly all regions of the world new extreme values of many insurance-relevant parameters that will lead to natural disasters of unprecedented severity and frequency." Translation: We can't afford to underwrite all the hurricanes, tornadoes, washouts, droughts, wildfires, coastal flooding and other predicted consequences of a warmer climate, so somebody better do something. For observers of the global-warming debate, Berz's words bring both good and bad news. The good news is that, if an industry as wealthy and conservative as insurance is now taking global warming seriously, perhaps the rest of the movers and shakers will. The bad news is that if an industry as wealthy and conservative as insurance is now taking global warming seriously, it's probably too late to do anything about it. In fact, much of the recent climate news has been of similarly mixed variety, with lots of bad and just enough good to keep up hopes that all isn't necessarily lost yet. THE BAD NEWS The Antarctic is definitely warming up. According to a report this week from researchers at the US Palmer Station on Anvers Island, the mean temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula has risen 2 degrees Celsius since 1950. That, in turn, is causing the peninsula's seasonal pack ice to form less frequently, which scientists blame for a decline in populations of Adelie penguins. "There's some dispute about the causes of changes in species populations," concedes Palmer chief scientist Bill Fraser, of Montana State Univ. "But the peninsula is melting, I don't think there's any question about that anymore." THE GOOD NEWS A controversial "free-market" plan to cut so-called climate-changing pollution seems to be working. For the last 5 years, utility companies whose emissions fall below federal standards earn pollution credits, which can be sold to companies whose emissions exceed federal standards. While supporters hoped the system would prove that markets cut pollution better than regulations, early trading in pollution credits was depressingly slow. But last week, the Chicago Board of Trade reported that the average price of the credits at the annual auction was up 60% over last year=92s prices - an indication, federal officials say, that the market is finally getting behind the idea. As importantly, officials with the US Environmental Protection Agency, which started the pollution credit program, say the acidic content in rainfall in the East and the mid-Atlantic regions dropped by as much as 1/5 in 1995. THE BAD NEWS Critics had warned that tighter restrictions on emissions of sulfur dioxide would cost companies billions of dollars. The US government still doesn't take global warming seriously. According to Kary McGinty, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the federal government has yet to grasp the "huge economic significance" that climate change has for America's future. McGinty's comments followed - and seemed to support - charges by environmentalists and Europeans that the United States is dragging its heals on developing a plan to cut its own climate-changing pollution. Critics say the Clinton administration, after leading efforts toward global emission reductions, has since been cowed by the energy and auto industries, which view such cuts as burdensome. White House officials say they're treading cautiously for fear that any bold proposals to cut emissions would be opposed by congressional Republicans, who have also been cowed by the energy and auto industries. McGinty, Clinton's point-person on environmental issues, largely steered clear of the blame, focusing instead on the consequences of doing nothing. "As we see increasingly severe storms," McGinty says, "we begin to get a glimpse of what a post-climate-change world would look like." THE GOOD NEWS Cleaning up the air isn't as expensive as feared. According to a new federal report, complying with tough, new clean-air rules enacted in 1995 added less than 1% to operating costs for utilities - and didn't effect rate payers a penny. Critics had warned that tighter restrictions on emissions of sulfur dioxide would cost companies billions of dollars. But, in fact, according to the US Dept of Energy's Energy Information Administration, the $836 million that utilities spent to comply with the law amounted to about 0.6% of the industry's total operating costs. THE BAD NEWS Coastal California is going under. According to a new study, if the ocean level climbs 2 feet - as many scientists say will happen when global warming melts the ice caps - hotels, power plants, a military base and more than 4,000 homes in Ventura County, CA, would be flooded during big storms. Univ of Southern California researchers who conducted the study advised that unless local governments took steps - from enacting tougher building codes to building higher sand berms on beaches - "coastal residents would lose the use, perhaps permanently, of roads, structures, power lines, railroads, recreational facilities, trailer parks and camping areas." The USC study focused only on Ventura County, although a rise in sea level would have disastrous effects worldwide. From ???@??? Sat May 03 20:43:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.52] [198.53.172.48] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wNgJz-0006cxC for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 08:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 08:01:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: EcoNews May 1997 X-UIDL: abc8fea546472cbf4593c67d9cfbd126 ECONEWS No. 61 Serving Vancouver Island's Environmental Community MAY 1997 AT LAST ! ORGANIC FOOD VALIDATED For millions of years, for as long as mammals and their predecessors have lived on Earth, humans and our ancestors have always eaten organic food. Our physical bodies evolved in the exact way that Earth's organic food encouraged us to : the match between the cellular needs of our bodies and the nutrients which organically grown plants and animals can provide is complete - 100%. The movement away from organic food started in the 1860s, when a man called Justus Leibig applied his new-fangled modern, scientific mind to the question "I wonder what makes plants grow ?". To answer his question, he took some soil and burnt it. In the ashes, he found potassium, potash and nitrogen. "Miracles !" he thought. "I've found the secret to life !". >From that moment on, modern farming started to add manufactured fertilizers to the soil to boost the productivity of plants. Today, the production of chemical fertilizers worldwide - and the parallel production of pesticides - is a huge, multi-billion dollar international business. In the 1920s, however, a small group of people in England inspired by the leadership of Lady Eve Balfour formed the Soil Association, and started to spread the idea that food was better grown organically, without chemicals. Today, the organic revolution is beginning to catch on all over the world. Denmark has committed itself to 20% of its farming being organic by the year 2000, and the Gallo Wine company is the largest organic farm in California. Throughout these years, however, there has never been any hard and fast proof that organic food is actually any better for you. Instinct might tell you that it is, and the knowledge that you're not eating all those chemicals sure feels good, but where was the proof ? Finally, the answers have arrived. In 1993, a trace minerals laboratory analyst in Chicago called Bob L. Smith started a small experiment. For two years, he went to stores in Chicago, and purchased between four to fifteen samples of both organic and non-organic produce. He would then take the foods back to his laboratory, and analyze the different foods for trace elements, to see what was there, and what was missing. The results are stunning, and should be a wake-up call to the whole world. The organically grown wheat had twice the calcium, four times more magnesium, five times more manganese and thirteen times more selenium to the non-organic varieties. The organically grown corn had twenty times more calcium and manganese, and two to five times more copper, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium and zinc. The organically grown potatoes had two or more times the boron, selenium, silicon, strontium and sulfur, and sixty percent more zinc. The organically grown pears had two to nearly three times more chromium, iodine, manganese, molybdenum, silicon and zinc. Overall, organically grown food exceeded conventionally grown crops significantly in twenty of the twenty two beneficial trace elements. They also had less amounts of toxic trace elements such as aluminum, lead and mercury. Trace elements are critically important not just for our health, but also for the development of the brain. And in a recent paper in the British medical journal The Lancet, Danish researchers reported that organic farmers and men who regular consumed organic food had twice the sperm count of men who did not consume organic food. (Thanks to David Steinman's article in Common Ground for all this information). The May/June issue or Organic Gardening also spells out why pests love non-organic food, but avoid crops raised organically on good compost. It describes two studies by Dr Larry Phelan which show that the European corn borer moths lay 18 times more eggs on sweet corn plants grown in chemically farmed soils than on organic soils. When he carefully monitored the variables, he found that again, it was the mineral ratios which were responsible. When the necessary minerals are available in the right balance, plant roots will absorb exactly what they need for photosynthesis. Plants grown in chemical soils often lack this mineral balance, and pests are not as attracted to the complex starches and proteins in plants with a good mineral balance - they're like junk food addicts, and prefer a diet rich in the simple sugars and amino acids that are present when the mineral supply is out of balance. Organic farmers have sensed this for years - but this is the first time there has been solid scientific evidence. Guy Dauncey Here in Victoria, you can buy organic food at many stores, at the Moss Street Market, through Susan Tychie's Share Organics (595-6742), Randy Hooper's Costerton Farm on Salt Spring, (250) 537-5420), and Brent's Fresh Picks Organics (383-7969). If someone is interested to help pull together an organic food supplement for the next issue of EcoNews, could you please call ? 592-4473. ECONEWS EcoNews is published as a monthly service to Vancouver Island, funded by readers' donations, to nourish the vision of an Island blessed by a harmony of nature and human community. March April May Circulation: 2000 2000 2000 Cost: $729 $802 $750 Donations: $251 $250 ? ? ? ? Advertising $55 $50 Balance: $1243 $827 Many thanks for your kind donations : Colleen O'Brien, Debra Barr, Rob & Lia Tocher, Marian Rowat, Jim Bohlen, Emile Lacroix, Peter Schofield, Ron Polden, Hermine Hicks, Susan Issac, Peter Dixon and Sally Ringdahl. Call 592-4473 to receive EcoNews by mail, gdauncey@islandnet.com by email. Donations can be made to EcoNews, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria V8R 2P6. And if you have unusable envelopes with an old printed address, WE CAN USE THEM ! We get through 1,000 every month. SCIENTISTS MAKE STUNNING BREAKTHROUGH WITH NEW TEST Two scientists at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor have made a breakthrough in the testing of toxic chemicals which may change the entire way in which our chemically-impregnated society operates. Biologist Doug Haffner and biochemist Khosrow Adele have developed a relatively inexpensive one-day test which can quantify the damage which specific chemicals or combinations of chemicals do to human cells, and the DNA within the cells. They have already provided the first irrefutable, quantifiable evidence that chemicals extracted from burning cigarettes damage human DNA. The test can be applied to chemical contaminants in the water, air, soil and sediments, as well as to food additives and pharmaceuticals. Once the test gets into common circulation, the door will be open for chemicals of every kind to be tested, for legislation to ban the use of chemicals which are proven to damage human DNA - a precursor of cancer - and for class action suits by those who have been exposed. (Windsor Star/CP) THE GARDEN PATH Organic Heritage Plant Nursery Open every Wednesday to Sunday 10am - 5pm until May 25th at the Greenhouse, 1834 Haultain St (between Richmond & Foul Bay) Open pollinated organic vegetables, 20 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, herbs, sweet peas, old garden roses, cottage garden flowers, all organically grown. Carolyn Herriot 592-4472 ECONOMISTS CLAIM APPALLING RIGHTS WITH NEW TREATY Move over NAFTA - there's a far bigger bogey on the horizon, looming its way towards us. called the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). In the past few weeks a story has broken which is as alarming as the previous story is exciting. The Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD) is a research establishment which provides the world's richest nations with information about economic trends. Yet unannounced, without debate or consultation and unguided by national parliaments, it has since May 1995 been quietly negotiating a treaty which will (in the words of George Monbiot of the UK Guardian) 'reduce our representatives to filing clerks'. In a nutshell, the MAI seeks to outlaw all restrictions and controls that national governments might wish to impose on foreign investment. "We are," boasts one of its leading negotiators, "writing the constitution of a single global economy." If Canada signs, investment, ownership, labour, consumer and environmental protection will all be wrenched out of our hands. BC's minimum wage legislation and prohibitions on the export of water or raw logs would all be forbidden, as would any attempt to prevent foreign ownership of the media, or the labeling of organic food or eco-certified timber. If a corporation finds a regulation objectionable, it will be entitled to sue a government or local authority at an international tribunal - but governments will have no reciprocal right to sue a corporation on the public's behalf. As George Monbiot says "This is a charter for multinationals. It accords them absolute rights without a shred of responsibility." The OECD is already talking about membership in MAI being seen as a 'certificate of good conduct', without which a nation could expect no substantial foreign investment. Once a nation has signed up, it will face punitive sanctions if it refuses to surrender its resources as foreign companies demand. The OECD had been pushing for completion by May 1997, but that deadline has been pushed back by a few months. Once complete, the MAI will need to be ratified - in Canada by the new Canadian government, in the US either by Congress or the Senate. It is astonishing (but maybe not surprising) that no major media outlet has covered the story. The federal election is our big opportunity. Ask every candidate : will you support ratification of the MAI - yes or no ? COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - BUILDING AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY EcoNews often runs stories about community-based economic development (CED), because it provides an alternative to the prospect of a world dominated by the multinational corporations. The Bent Nail, the co-operative started by street people which recycles used building materials (870 Devonshire St Esquimalt) is just one example of the wide range of initiatives which are possible. Community currencies, community development loan funds, community controlled banking, projects such as Victoria's Women Work! which helps single mothers start their own businesses - these are all examples of what CED can do. In May and June, Victoria's CED Development Network is running a series of 8 day-workshops called 'Making It Work ! Practical Skills for Achieving Community Economic Development Success.' The Network has been meeting for two years and is close to forming a Community Economic Development Corporation here in Victoria, which will be able to help local initiatives get started. The workshop series is intended to broaden our overall skill base, and build a stronger sense of sharing and community among the many groups involved. Everyone is welcome ! For details see the Green Diary, or call Maeve Liden at VIDEA, 385-2333. Talking of CED, Elizabeth Woods was successfully re-elected in the recent Pacific Coast Savings election, , but Bernie Jones failed to win a seat this time round. Around 1,900 votes were cast, representing 2% of the total membership of 90,000. Also, the book 'Get A Life - How to Make a Good Buck and Dance around the Dinosaurs' by Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum is packed full of positive, exciting CED possibilities. Call Andrew van Iterson at (250) 595-2311, who is distributing the book here on the Island. SUMMER IS HERE ! Well it feels like it, with the Moss St Market re-opening and the flowers out everywhere. Planning ahead, there are some good living/learning opportunities you might want to note. From July 28th - August 1st there's a 5-day community education festival called the Community Development Institute happening on the Sunshine Coast at Sechelt. There will be workshops on everything from strawbale building to local governance, permaculture, community economic development, environmental stewardship and affordable housing, with lots of shared camping and singing etc inbetween. For details, call Zarina Mulla at SPARC of BC, (604) 736-5576. Then from June 22nd right till August 3rd, the Global Living Project is holding a residential summer institute at a newly formed intentional community just north of Nelson, in the Slocan Valley. The time will be divided between bread labour, personal growth and community service, with workshops on everything from bioregional exploration to Voluntary Simplicity. The cost is on a sliding scale from $700 - $2500. Details, Gabi Sittig, (250) 355-2585. jmerkel@netidea.com Closer to home, there's the Summer Solstice Circle Dance (see below), and much further afield, you can join a Permaculture Foundation or EcoVillage Training Course at a Green Kibbutz in Israel. Details from the US office, Scott Hertzberg, 3915 Windom Rd NW, Washington DC 20016, (202) 686-5494. SUMMER SOLSTICE CIRCLE DANCE June 20th - 22nd Come to Salt Spring Island's Camp Narnia on beautiful Burgoyne Bay for a weekend of circle dancing with June Watts from England, live music from Sarafield, and midsummer celebrations. "The perfect way to cleanse your brain and refresh your soul." (GD) $175 (incl accommodation & veggie food). Registrations with $75 deposit by May 15th. Chris Edwards, 1649 Warren Gardens, Victoria V8S 1S9 (250) 598-1105 VICTORIA'S COUNCILLORS Victoria's Mayor Bob Cross and four of Victoria's sitting councillors (Chris Coleman, Bea Holland, David McLean and Geoff Young) may have to resign and face by-elections if a petition by the Green Party's Art Vanden Berg and Ken Rouleau that 3rd party election funding from the conservative Victoria Voters Association (VVA) is illegal sticks. The Association has refused to divulge the source of its money, and under the Municipal Act 'the funneling of campaign contributions to disguise their source' is banned. The hearing at the B.C. Supreme Court is on May 12th. This makes it interesting to revisit last November's election results. The six conservative candidates financed by the VVA polled 33% of the 76,288 votes cast (24,991 votes), and won four seats. 17 candidates represented various progressive social and environmental positions, divided into the Greens, Voters for a Livable Community and the NDP's Victoria Civic Electors, plus Gene Miller and Syd Haskell. The 17 polled 48% of the overall vote, but won just two seats (Pam Madoff and Bob Friedland). With so many progressive candidates, the vote was hopelessly split and we ended up with a conservative business-dominated council which is scrapping almost all of the public advisory committees, and where - unbelievably - councillors even vote to decide if a member of the public will be allowed to speak to council. Next time (which might be soon if Art and Ken's petition is successful), we should maybe organize a big public meeting of Victoria's many social, environmental and community groups, invite all the progressive candidates, and then make a joint decision who we will campaign for, hoping the others will have the grace to stand down. WHAT'S IN THE GREEN PARTY PLATFORM ? The Green Party has elected Victoria's Dr. Joan Russow (598-0071) as its party leader; she's running in the Victoria riding. Wally de Temple (656-7012) is running in Esquimalt/Juan de Fuca, and Julia Lerner in Saanich and the Gulf Islands. The Party's platform includes : * Reduce the military budget by 50%, releasing $5 billion a year for health, education and social programs. * Ensure that Canadian corporations pay their fair share of taxes. * Legislate the option of repaying student loans through community service. * Move away from the overconsumptive model of development and reject the notion that economic growth will solve the urgency of the global/local situation. * Move away from car-dependency, and adopt a green transport hierarchy in all decision-making, supporting the development of EcoCities. * Legislate the right to clean air, clean water and uncontaminated food, and empower Canadians whose environmental rights have been violated to take governments, corporations and individuals to court. * Encourage community economic development, promoting local sourcing of materials and revolving community loans. * Bring in a 4-day, 32 hour week, sharing existing jobs with unemployed people. * Reform the electoral system through proportional representation, where a party receives seats proportional to its share of the vote. * Negotiate a nuclear weapons abolition treaty before the year 2000. * Pass an Act Respecting the Rights of Species in Canada, ensuring the protection of all Canadian animal and plant species in their natural habitats. * Apologize to the First Nations for the Indian Act and the residential schools, and move towards implementation of the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples. ACTION OF THE MONTH : FREE PAUL WATSON Tooker Gomberg writes : Canada's best known environmental activist, Paul Watson, has been locked up for the past four weeks, detained in a high security jail in the Netherlands on trumped up charges. Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, and founder of the seal and whale protecting Sea Shepherd Society, was accused of sinking a whaling ship in Norwegian harbours in 1992. He was tried in absentia, and now with an election looming in Norway it looks like the government wants to bring him home as a trophy. So he was arrested in the Netherlands at Norway's behest, and extradition papers are being prepared. Little does it seem to matter that Paul was not even in Norway when the ship sank. Nor that Norway has committed itself to returning to the commercial slaughter of whales despite the International Whaling Commission's global ban on whaling. Paul has received numerous death threats from Norwegians who are anxious to resume hunting whales. Word has it that if he ends up in Norwegian jail he may not get out alive. Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was murdered in South African jails. Internationally renowned rubber tapper and rainforest protector Chico Mendes was killed in the Amazon. And don't forget Karen Silkwood, the anti-nuclear activist who died in a mysterious car crash. Action : Write to Jean Chretien, Prime Minister, House of Parliament, Ottawa K1A 0A6, demanding that Canada make the strongest of protests to the Dutch and Norwegian governments, and requesting Paul's release. And tell your friends too! THE GREEN DIARY MAY 1997 Every weekend - hikes and outdoor activities with Club Tread. Schedules at outdoor stores and libraries Fri 2nd, 12:30-4pm Food Forum II, St Andrew's Kirk Hall, Broughton St. What can we do to alleviate local hunger ? 383-6166 Sat 3rd, 10am Trafficking in Women : Free Public Forum. Leading global speakers. Salon B, Chateau Victoria Hotel, 740 Burdett St. Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Nicole, 480-1853. Also below. Sat 3rd, 2-5pm Women's Community Information Fair, Centennial Square. Info tables, music, dance, performances. Sat 3rd, 12 noon 'We're Out for Justice', National Day of Protest Victoria Rally with Bob White. Centennial Square. Sat 3rd, 1pm 'Cedar: tree of life'. CRD Parks guided walk for the family. Francis/King Reg Park, off Munn Rd, Saanich. Sun 4th, 1-3pm Ayum Creek tour. Meet Ayum Creek bridge, Sooke Rd, 1km east of Sassenos. HAT, 995-2428. Sun 4th - Fri 9th Voluntary Simplicity Workshop at Hollyhock, Cortes Island. Call Donna, 953-8540 Sun 4th, 1-3:30pm CRD Parks 'Thetis Explorations' hike up Seymour Hill, Thetis Lake Reg Park. Meet at the Info Centre. Wed 7th, 8:30pm 'Ways We Live' series on community. Final program : 'Bioregionalism : Maps with Teeth'. TV 21. Thur 8th, 7:30pm 'Somenos Marsh' Slide Show, Sutton Auditorium, Prodeaux/Fitzwilliam, Nanaimo. WCWC. 716-6585 Sat 3rd East Vancouver Island Sierra Club bike trip to Gabriola Island. Call Dave, 758-5498 Sun 4th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club trip to OK Mountain, NW Bay (strenuous). Call Dan, 753-0629 Fri 9th 7:30pm & Sat 10th, Raven Symposium : Market Values & Green Values. Kingfisher Inn, Comox Valley. David Baxter, Jeanette Matson, Doug Backhouse, Brian Tutty, Guy Dauncey and John Talbot. Details, 339-6591 Sat 10th, 9am 'Songbirds at Mill Hill' and spring wildflowers. Mill Hill Reg Park. Meet parking lot, Atkins Ave Langford Sun 11th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club trip to Mt Jeffrey, Malahat (moderate). Call Al, 743-5119 Sun 11th, 10-5pm 'Rage and our Environment' : Relating Inner Ecology to Outer Ecology. Process workshop presented by Stan Tomandl and Ann Jacob. #503-620 View St. $60. Details, call Ann or Stan, 383-5677 Sun 11th, 1-4pm 'To the Trestles and Beyond' CRD Parks family hike on Galloping Goose. Meet Sooke River Rd parking lot. Tue 13th, 7:30pm Greater Victoria Electric Railway Society monthly meeting, MacDonald's Furniture Mart, 1420 Broad St. Wed 14th, 9-4pm Making it Work, Workshop 1 : 'Getting Started with Community Economic Development',with Lynn Markell and Sandra Mark. Sponsored by the Victoria Community Economic Development Network. Greater Victoria Econ Dev't Comm (GVEDC), Sussex Place, 1001 Douglas St. Maeve 385-2333. Wed 14th, 10-2pm CRD Parks Cultural history hike, East Sooke Reg Park. Native fishing, hunting, gathering. Pre-register, $8. Sat 17th, 10-2pm Moss St Market - Season Opening at Sir James Douglas School, Fairfield. Fresh, organically grown fruits, veggies, herbs, bedding plants, local arts and crafts. Walk, run, cycle or bus to the local market! Sat 17th-Mon 19th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club trip along Juan de Fuca Trail, car-camping. Call Diana, 746-6659 Sat 17th, 1pm 'Midden Matters' - CRD family outing to explore old middens. Witty's Lagoon Reg Park, off Metchosin Rd. Sun 18th, 9-4pm Making it Work, Workshop 2 : Doug Aberley, Bioregional Mapping. UVic Downtown campus, #110, 910 Government St. Details Silas, 598-6383 or DIGS 386-3447. $15, or $100 for all 8 workshops. Sun 18th, 1-3pm Ayum Creek tour. Meet Ayum Creek bridge, Sooke Rd, 1km east of Sassenos. HAT, 995-2428. Sun 18th, 1-3pm Mount Tolmie Park Nature Walk. Meet at the Summit. Eric Redekop, 595-7270 Sun 18th, 1-4pm 'Hiking High' - family hike up Mount Work. Greatest views ! Meet Munn Rd parking lot, Highlands. Mon 19th, 1pm 'Great big greens' - CRD Parks family tree-identification outing, Francis/King Regional Park. Tue 20th, 7:30pm Making it Work, Workshop 3 : Mapping Our Community, with Guy Dauncey and local resource people. UVic Downtown campus, 910 Government St. $15, or $100 for all 8 workshops. Maeve, 385-2333. Wed 21st, 9-4pm Making it Work, Workshop 3a : 'Mapping Our Community Assets', with Guy Dauncey and Lynne Markell, GVEDC, Sussex Place, 1001 Douglas St. Maeve 385-2333. $15, or $100 for all 8 workshops. Wed 21st, 10-11:30 'Humming Birds are Here !' CRD Parks humfest for parents and children. Francis/King Reg Park. $6. Wed 21st, 7:30pm Cycling Coalition meeting, 1330 Fairfield Rd. Ray Hall, CANBIKE 2 Video. All welcome! Wed 21st, 7:30pm Car Share Co-operative, Fernwood Public Meeting, 1923 Fernwood Rd. Call Kathryn, 995-0265. Sat 24th, 7pm Bear aware - conservation officer guest speaker. Francis/King Reg Park. Preregister $4, call 478-3344 Sun 25th East Vancouver Island Sierra Club trip to Mt Benson, Nanaimo (strenuous). Call Kent, 758-9871 Sun 25th, 9am Somenos Marsh wildlife viewing tour. Meet Boatland Building, just north of Duncan. 746-8383 Sun 25th, 11:30am Low tide means wondrous creatures ! CRD Parks, meet Tower Point Parking lot, Olympic View Drive. Wed 28th, 9-4pm Making it Work, Workshop 4 : Healthy People, Healthy Groups, with Roy Leeman and Lauren Pheaton, GVEDC, Sussex Place, 1001 Douglas St. Maeve 385-2333. $15, or $100 for all 8 workshops. Wed 28th, 7pm CRD Regional Growth Public Advisory Advisory Cte, 524 Yates St. All welcome. Ron Kirstein, 360-3133 Wed 28th 7:30pm EcoNews Dessert Potluck Mailout Party, 2069 Kings Rd Oak Bay. Everyone welcome ! 592-4473 Sat 31st & Sun 1st Victoria Sierra Club outing to the Walbran. Overnight camping. Call Jes Jessen, 479-9916 Sat 31st, 10-2pm Survival basics - learn all those skills ! East Sooke Reg Park. Pre-register $8, CRD Parks 478-3344 Coming Up : June 13th - 15th Canadian Environment Network conference, Belcarra YMCA (Camp Howdy) along the shore of Indian Arm (50' from downtown Vancouver). Contact Stefan Ochman, 604-267-0414 Deadline for June : May 25th Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Updated Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Tue May 06 20:59:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-47.islandnet.com [198.53.175.47] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wOcZm-0006azC for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 22:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 22:14:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Action: World Wildlife Fund Congratulates Shell X-UIDL: 973767acba8dd5227c3ac73104be3375 phone world wildlife fund (wwf) and tell them what you think...1-800-26-PANDA or email the exec, MHUMMEL@WWFCANADA.ORG. other numbers to call at end of message...phone cathy mcgregor, bc minister of environment. ernie yacub begin forwarded message... SHELL"S ENVIRO NOMINATION CALLED NAIVE AND WITLESS (This letter in the Georgia Straight (May1-8 1997) is from Ian Gill, executive director of Ecotrust Canada:) Apparently, the World Wildlife Fund has nominated Shell Canada Ltd. and three other oil compainies for a B.C. Minister's environmental Award because they "donated" exploration rights off Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) to help create a marine reserve ther ["Shell Game for Enviro Nomination", April 24-May 1]. As a conservationist who is not afraid to talk to industry, and indeed to offer praise where it is due, I nonetheless think the WWF's nomination is naive and witless. I have boycotted Shell products ever since the state-ordered murder of Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who dared criticize his government and Shell Oil. Not only that, I have tried to explain this action to my eldest son, who is not yet five years old. It isn't easy trying to instill in someone so young notions of morality and corporate responsibility. It's even harder when people who are nominally working to create a better future for our kids are so blind to the recent past and what is still happening aroun them. Shell Canada didn't kill Ken Saro-Wiwa, but, globally, Shell has a shameful environmental and political track record. Nominating any part of that corporation for an environmental award would be akin to nominating child killer Clifford Olson for a comunity-service award if he donated a day's prison wages to the United Way. I'm sure a five-year-old could figure that out. Not so, apparently, the World Wildlife Fund. Ian Gill, executive director Ecotrust Canada, Vancouver **** ogoni solidarity network (osn) in bc...(604) 873-8554...the Ogoni Solidarity Network holds protests every week at Shell Stations throughout the Lower Mainland. osn in the comox valley (ernie yacub 250-336-8155) protests on the 10th of every month at noon in downtown courtenay. sub info for email conferences... shell-nigeria-action@essential.org...send email to: majordomo@essential.org ...subscribe shell-nigeria-action movement for the survival of the ogoni people (mosop)...send emai to majordomo@virtualforum.com...subscribe mosop-l PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS VICTORIA, BC V8V 1X4 PHONE: (250) 387-1187 FAX: (250) 387-1356 From ???@??? Tue May 06 21:00:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wOpdR-0006hqC for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 12:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.50.2.42] (io1p9.ark.com [204.50.2.42]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15499; Tue, 6 May 1997 12:12:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 12:12:48 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ark-misc@mars.ark.com, micec@onenw.org From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com Subject: Let Minister Cathy McGregor Know...NO to $hell! Cc: Conference "gpty.canada" X-UIDL: da1b46759983c60c0ccf382a1efecb43 Media Advisory For Immediate Release May 6, 1997 Vancouver, British Columbia ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD QUESTIONABLE FOR OIL COMPANY The Sierra Club Lower Mainland Group states the World Wildlife Fund's nomination of Shell Canada for a B. C. Minister's Environment Award is inappropiate. Although the monetary value of exploration rights donated by Shell Canada, Chevron Canada Resources, Petro-Canada and Mobil Oil Canada to the Nature Conservancy of Canada was not included in the March 19, 1997 WWF news release titled, "Prince Philip Witnesses Global Gift," it featured the logos of the oil companies in a column with the WWF logo at the top and the NCC at the bottom. The Sierra Club would like to know what tax advantages the gift will accrue. The November 10, 1995 hangings of writer/activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists for critizing the Nigerian dictatorship and Shell Oil was condemned by human rights and environmental activists and groups universally. Nine days later, the U. S. Sierra Club Board of Directors voted in favour of a consumer boycott of Shell Oil to increase public awareness of the plight of the Ogoni people. "I hope our friends in prison and under detention don't hear about this award nomination," said Diana Wiwa, sister-in-law of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and an activist in her own right. "I will phone the World Wildlife Fund immediately to let them know Shell Canada has the same parent company as Shell Nigeria. You would think they would know." Shell Canada is 78 per-cent owned by Shell Transport and Trading and Royal Dutch Shell. It was Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, Shell Nigeria, that recently admitted it provided arms and supplies for military dictator General Sani Abacha's security forces to quell civil unrest in Ogoniland. During a peaceful protest against Shell in 1990, 80 Ogoni were shot dead and 495 homes destroyed. Since 1958, it is estimated over 2,000 Ogoni have been killed by the Nigerian government to remove opposition to oil operations in the Niger Delta. In the same time period, Sierra Club data shows Shell has taken $30 billion worth of oil and gas out of the delta, leaving the land, water and air polluted while most of its indigenous people live in poverty. Geraldine Irby, editor of The Sierra Report, and an individual award recipient for the communications/media category, commented, "I trust the Minister will understand the connections and not give an award to Shell Canada. I will return mine if Shell Canada is given this award because it would make a mockery of the whole process." While the donation is a step in the establishment of the first national marine conservation area on Canada's west coast, it was followed by an extensive media campaign by the WWF and the oil companies. The WWF bought an advertisement in the New York Times praising Shell Canada and the other oil companies for their "gifts to the earth." This shameless promotion of what could be a tax advantage is unsurprising given the participants involved. The free and paid publicity and recognition already received by Shell Canada for this donation is adequate. "We are very proud of our award - it hangs in our meeting room," said Joe Foy of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, a 1990 Minister's Environmental Award recipient for the citizen's group category. "Although I have grown fond of looking at it, if Shell Canada receives this award, we will return ours." The B.C. Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks, Cathy McGregor, will make the final decision on award recipients. The Sierra Club will inform the Minister why Shell Canada should not receive the award. As well, the Sierra Club will continue to contact past individual and group award recipients to ask them for assistance in explaining to Minister McGregor the ethical significance of making the award to Shell Canada. The Sierra Club believes if Shell Canada is serious about conservation and environmental work, it would publicly rebuke Shell Oil units (ie. Royal Dutch Shell Nigeria) for their complicity in the murders of the "Ogoni Nine". Furthermore, the Sierra Club believes Shell Canada should admit that its parent companies are at least partly, if not entirely, culpable for the environmental devastation in the Ogoni region of Nigeria. This level of devastation in the Ogoni homeland would not be tolerated if it took place in Canada. Do environmental racism, human rights abuses, and ecological destruction deserve a B.C. Minister's Environmental Award? The Sierra Club says NO to $hell!! - 30 - Contact: Sid Tan Co-Chairman, Sierra Club Lower Mainland Group Phone: (604) 873 - 8554 Fax: (604) 872 - 0709 For more information, go to -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi All. This is Sid Tan taking my Sierra Club hat off and putting my Ogoni Solidarity Network hat on. Further to the World Wildlife Fund nomination of $hell Canada for a British Columbia Minister's Environmental Award, it is crucial that we inform Cathy McGregor, B. C.'s Environment Minister who makes the final decision, why $hell Canada should not receive the award. I gave her an OSN pamphlet and copies of the Georgia Straight article (Aril 24, 1997) by Charlie Smith breaking the news of the nomination and the North Shore News (March 21, 1997) article by Yolanda Waskito reporting North Vancouver City Council "wants nothing to do with Shell." My take is the Minister is likely to make the award in the Business and Industry catagory to the WWF nominees. I brought this up as Cathy McGregor was leaving the British Columbia Environmental Network meeting on May 3, 1997 in Victoria. She replied, "Well, the World Wildlife Fund nominated Shell Canada." You can can contact the Minister (toll-free from lower mainland) by phone by calling Inquiry BC at 660-2421 and ask to be connected to Victoria number (250) 387-1187. Writing her would also help. Cathy McGregor Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks Parliament Buildings Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4 You can also phone (toll-free from the lower mainland) the Minister's Environmental Award office by calling Inquiry BC at 660-2421 and ask to be connected to Victoria number (250) 387-1356. Since the nomination will not be withdrawn, contact Monte Hummel at the World Wildlife Fund Canada via email or phone their toll-free number 1-800-26PANDA and let WWF know what you think of the nomination and what you are going to do.. Have fun and help prevent Shell Canada from receiving the award. The next Boycott $hell Rally in Vancouver will be from 2-4pm Saturday, May 10 at Denman and Pendrell in the West End. PS - Anyone have the referred to articles on-lined? Also, can anyone substantiate the rumour that $hell "bought" the nomination for a $25,000 contibution to WWF? --------------------------------------------------------------------- When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land: when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures: when the upperclass is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn: all this is robbery and chaos. TAO TE CHING --------------------------------------------------------------------- From ???@??? Sat Apr 19 21:52:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: from norm.island.net [199.60.19.4] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wIHVf-0006cKa for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by norm.island.net (8.8.5/8.8.5/island) id KAA25095 for nanoosenet-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:32:27 -0700 Received: from Howard.island.net (dyn87.island.net [204.239.42.97]) by norm.island.net (8.8.5/8.8.5/island) with SMTP id KAA25082 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:32:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:32:21 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970418103457.6107c6b4@mail.island.net> X-Sender: hbreen@mail.island.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: nanoosenet@island.net From: Howard Breen (by way of Howard Breen ) Subject: NN: CFMETR Solution--> Environmental Institute opens on Catalina Island Sender: owner-nanoosenet@mail.island.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: NanooseNet@mail.island.net X-UIDL: 8d0318841194c2d1ff72e9778f561daf CFMETR alternative use....the Nanoose Environmental Institute...connected to Malaspina College-University? Anyone at the College interested in the concept? -Howard (see below): Environmental Institute opens on Catalina Island --April 18/97 Catalina Island, near Long Beach, Calif., will become an oasis of higher learning today as University of Southern California officials celebrate the opening of the newly renovated Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies. The USC facility has been the site of a marine studies laboratory for about 20 years, but now will offer interdisciplinary courses covering everything from marine biology to environmental economics using the island as a living laboratory. More than $12 million, including a $5 million gift from the Wrigley family, has been invested in the institute so far. Of that, $2.5 million was spent on upgrading the laboratories, classrooms, and a communications system that includes high-speed Internet links to the mainland. Work will begin in the fall to improve the dormitories. Most of the money will be used to pay USC faculty. The institute's resources will be available not only to USC students, but also to other college students, elementary and high school students and businesspeople, said Tony Michaels, director of the institute. The mission of the institute is to make environmental science and firsthand scientific research more accessible and understandable to the public, Michaels said. There also are plans to put the scientific research generated at the institute on the World Wide Web, he said. "We need everyone to have a better understanding of the world we live in, and we need to teach people how to gather information for themselves," said Michaels. The idea for the institute developed after USC began an environmental studies major three years ago. Today, there are 180 students in the major and many more who take courses in the subject, said Morton Owen Schapiro, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The opening of the institute will be marked by special events. On Saturday, a conference on future environmental problems in Southern California will bring together scientists, business and government leaders. A public open house will take place Sunday. Noncredit, three-week courses will be held this summer and are open to the public. In spring 1998, the first group of 40 USC students will move into the institute for a full semester of course work. Plans are under way for Cal State Long Beach and other Cal State University students to use the facility in the fall of 1998. Copyright 1997, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From ???@??? Mon May 26 22:53:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-54.islandnet.com [198.53.175.54] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wWDo4-0006bvC for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 21:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 21:24:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: ENGO BC-- Alternative power gaining popularity X-UIDL: 6bc7f3f466971c2e8104274b89488fe9 Sun 25 May 1997 - The Calgary Herald - News - D1 / FRONT [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Wind, sun and geothermal power gaining popularity By: The Associated Press The world is burning irreplaceable oil, natural gas and coal at a record pace, but the biggest increases in energy consumption last year were in more abundant resources -- wind, sun and geothermal. Vital Signs 1997, the latest collection of data on the Earth's pulse, published this weekend by Worldwatch Institute, spotlights some surprisingly optimistic human and environmental trends amid the usual gloom and doom of a world suffering from increased pollution and the spread of AIDS. On the rise, the report found, were energy consumption, carbon emissions, storm damage, car and bicycle production, fertilizer use, irrigated acreage, grain stocks, carbon emissions, AIDS infections, population and the economy. Declining were global temperatures (very slightly), refugee populations, UN peacekeeping operations, armies, arms production, nonhuman primate populations, food aid, research and development spending and the number of languages spoken. Under the sometimes contradictory trends, the bottom line is that robust world economic growth is outpacing developments in the ecosystem on which it depends, said Worldwatch president Lester Brown. ``The evidence of this is painfully clear,'' said Brown, citing how increased consumption and demand has exceeded the capacity of fisheries, grasslands, forests and water supplies. But Brown saw some good news about the planet. ``We see hope . . . that humanity may be close to turning historic corners on some of its most pressing problems,'' he said in the report's foreword. The fastest-growing energy sources last year were wind, solar and geothermal -- heat from within the Earth. And, while fossil- fuel consumption was at all-time highs, the biggest increase was in natural gas, considered the most environmentally safe nonrenewable energy source. This year's Vital Signs lists bright counterpoints for some of its most foreboding data: - While world highways are jammed with a half-billion automobiles, bicycle production is up to three times that of cars. - World population hit 5.8 billion in 1996, but annual growth is declining: 80 million people were added last year, compared to 87 million in 1990. - Carbon emissions worldwide set a record of six billion tonnes. But production of chlorofluorocarbons continued to decrease, setting the stage for possible healing of the ozone layer. KEYWORDS: ENERGY; REPORTS; UNITED STATES; ENVIRONMENT INFOMART CUSTOMSEARCH ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Tue Jun 10 21:29:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-91.islandnet.com [198.53.175.91] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wbflL-0006ccC for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:16:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Nuxalk Nation and enviro orgs stand together Cc: fanbc@envirolink.org X-UIDL: cfec40b8a2a0bfb25f2e08757f2c35e4 For Immediate Release ENVIRONMENTALISTS STAND WITH NUXALK NATION TO PROTECT THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST (BELLA COOLA, British Columbia) Friday, 6 June, 1997 -- Today four environmental groups joined people of the Nuxalk Nation in blockading International Forest Products' logging operations on Ista, a rainforest valley sacred to the Nuxalk people. Today's activities follow yesterday's protest by the Nuxalk hereditary chiefs and people, at which time hereditary head chief Lawrence Pootlass invited environmentalists to stand with the Nuxalk to protect the rainforest. Since dawn this morning, Nuxalk people, members of the Forest Action Network, Greenpeace, Bear Watch and PATH (approximately 70 people in total) have been blockading the main logging road under a banner which reads "Standing Together to Protect the Great Bear Rainforest". The road is the only access point to all road building and clearcutting operations in the valley. "When they clearcut our ancient rainforests they clearcut the Nuxalk culture. As they clearcut Ista, which is sacred to the Nuxalk, they are clearcutting our history," said hereditary head chief Lawrence Pootlass. "We acknowledge and respect the commitment of these four environmental groups to protecting the ancient rainforests. We have extended an official invitation to these groups by way of a protocol (1)." Interfor has already clearcut three cutblocks this year at Ista and plans to clear 11 more areas in the next three years. "It is only by people joining together that we have a chance to protect the last of the world's temperate rainforest," said Tamara Stark of Greenpeace. "If we stand by now, if our voices remain silent, within a decade there will be little rainforest left to fight for." "Today's protest illustrates that a growing number of groups are refusing to accept Interfor's destruction of the rainforest and their complete disrespect for the wishes of the Nuxalk people," said Gavin Edwards of the Forest Action Network. In 1994, the elected Band Council asked Interfor to stop clearcutting on Nuxalk land and in 1995 the hereditary head chief asked them not to clearcut the sacred rainforests of Ista. Interfor refused and 21 people were subsequently arrested for trying to protect these lands. International Forest Products is the second largest company logging the rainforest, and have licenses to log the largest number of intact rainforest valleys on the coast. Approximately half these valleys will be roaded or logged within five years. The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest contiguous unprotected rainforest in British Columbia and is a forest of global ecological significance. Satellite mapping recently carried out by the World Resources Institute shows that half of the world's temperate rainforest has already been destroyed and that temperate rainforests are more endangered than tropical rainforests. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Members of the environmental groups and the Nuxalk Nation on site, via the Greenpeace ship the Moby Dick: 011-872-624-628-410 Greg Higgs, Forest Action Network: 250-799-5800 Dayna Chapman, Forest Action Network: Tzeporah Berman, Greenpeace: 604-253-7701 Nuxalk Nation House of Smayusta: 250-799-5376 PHOTO AND VIDEO FOOTAGE AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING: Mary MacNutt: 604-253-7701; 416-505-1792 Note: (1) Copies of the Nuxalk/environmental group protocol available upon request. (2) Logistical support provided by the environmental aviation group, Lighthawk. ----------------------------------------------------- F O R E S T A C T I O N N E T W O R K Box 625, Bella Coola BC, Canada, V0T 1C0 TEL (250) 799-5800 FAX (250) 799-5830 EMAIL fanbc@envirolink.org http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/fan CAMPAIGNING TO SAVE THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST ----------------------------------------------------- (mail sent to fan@alternatives.com is now forwarded to fanbc@envirolink.org) From ???@??? Mon Jun 16 21:16:30 1997 To: robb zuk,pat rycroft From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: when clinton says climate change is a problem... Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: For Pat Rycroft and Robb Zuk, AL --------------------------------------------------------- forwarded from the bioregional list... Apropos of Gelbspan's book on climate change, here are President Clinton's remarks on the topic to the Business Roundtable (his strongest comments to date in the US). David Hawkins ----------------------------------------- THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 12, 1997 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE J.W. Marriott Hotel Washington, D.C. 4:37 P.M. EDT .... Finally, let me say on an issue that I know is a concern to some of you because I read your ad in the paper -- (laughter) -- I think that we have to prove that we can grow the economy while not only preserving, but actually enhancing, the environment. And I believe most of you think we can do that. And I think the message you were trying to get across in the ad is, don't wreck the economy without knowing what you're doing. I understand that. But let me say, I was very moved by the speech recently given by the Chairman of British Petroleum on the issue of climate change. I don't know how many of you read it, but essentially what he said is, look, nobody knows exactly what the impact of climate change is, but let's not deny anymore that the climate is changing and that it can't be good, and that no harm will be done if we take sensible steps to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to do other things which will help us to preserve the environment. We've had more extreme weather conditions in the United States in the last five years than we had in the previous 30. And we know from all the scientific studies what is happening to the temperature of the globe. What I ask you to do is to work with me in good faith to give our children a world worth living in. A lot of you have made a good deal of money in your corporations by technologies which improve the environment. And if we have the strongest economy in the world, we will find a sensible way to grow that economy in a way that fulfills our responsibilities. Today, with 4 percent of the world's population, we produce over 20 percent of the greenhouse gases. We're up 13 percent since 1990 when President Bush and his administration said we would try to hold constant through the year 2000. I had an interesting conversation with Jiang Zemin in New York about a year ago, when he said, I don't want you to have a containment policy toward China. I said, I'm not sure -- I said, I don't want to have a containment policy toward China. I said, my biggest worry about you is that you'll get rich the same way we did. And if you do that, you might burn the air up because you've got 1.2 billion people. And we need to find an environmentally responsible way for China to grow. So I ask you to join with us in partnership. There is no secret plan. There is no scheme here to try to put thousands of Americans out of business. I have devoted my passion and the best ideas I could come up with to try to get this country in good shape economically and socially. But I do believe it is folly for us to believe that we can go into the next century without a strategy that says we're going to be responsible and we're going to do our part and lead the world on the environmental issues -- because we all know what the evidence is. We don't know what the consequences are, and we don't want to go off and do something that we're not sure makes sense. But we can do this. We can do it together. We can do it in a way that makes sense. And I ask you not to ever ask us to back away from that, but instead join hands with us and do what we've done for the last four and a half years. Let's find a way to preserve the environment, to meet our international responsibilities, to meet our responsibilities to our children, and grow the economy at the same time. I know we can do it. Look at the evidence of the last four years. We can do anything if we put our minds to it. Thank you very much. (Applause.) From ???@??? Thu Jun 19 21:01:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-20.islandnet.com [198.53.175.20] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0we8vL-0006htC for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:48:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO BC-- rd director appalled by clarks' comments (fwd) X-UIDL: cde4b7cbe2e5c4aef67031c470d4d4f7 Roxanna Mandryk Director, Electoral Area "A" Comox-Strathcona Regional District June 10, 1997 Premier Glen Clark Government of British Columbia Victoria, B.C. via fax: 387-0087 Dear Premier Clark: As the Electoral Area Director for Area A of the Comox Strathcona Regional District, personally I was appalled by your comments as aired by CBC Radio on Thursday, June 5 and Friday, June 6, regarding environmental impacts on the fish bearing streams along the new Inland Island Highway. The clip of your statement on the radio had you saying there had been no environmental damage to fish-bearing streams, and that your government had, in fact, enhanced the salmon stocks. I am attaching a three-page report on the negative impacts of the Insland Island Highway on 23 fish-bearing streams and rivers from south of Ladysmith to just south of Courtenay. This report was prepared by a Fisheries Biologist, Mr. David Clough. A copy of this report along with other documentation was sent by me to Michelle Kemper, Special Assistant to the honourable Lois Boone, Minister of Highways. At a meeting with the Executive of the Association of Vancouver Island Municipalities, of which I am a Director, the Minister's office was made aware of the problems. I urge you to read this report and talk to Minister Boone's staff. I hope you will see our point - mine, the members of various Salmonid Enhancement Societies and the residents and visitors along the new highway. Yours truly Roxanna Mandryk Director Electoral Area "A" cc. Evelyn Gillespie, NDP MLA, Comox Valley Fanny Bay Salmonid Enhancement Society Roxanna Mandryk home address and phone numbers.... 2396 Jemima Road, Denman Island, B.C., V0R 1T0 phone: 250-335-2576 fax: 250-335-0638 From ???@??? Thu Jun 19 21:02:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-20.islandnet.com [198.53.175.20] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0we8wi-0006jHC for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:50:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:50:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: yacinfo@mars.ark.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO BC-- Action: Letters re Island Highway X-UIDL: 3c4b83f4ec31bbb45f20187d2dbd2902 A number of Inland Island Highway construction contracts are ready to be signed for the section between the Tsable River and Cumberland. We ask those of you who want to prevent any further habitat destruction to use all or part of this letter in your correspondence with the appropriate government agencies. It is a matter of extreme urgency. Please act. Please send copies to your local media. thanks ernie yacub Vancouver Island Highway Project Gregg Singer Director Russ Coates Project Manager 250 953 4949 250 953 4975 fax Dear Sirs, Re: Contracts on Inland Highway in the Comox Valley No contracts should be signed until a public consultation process has been initiated and the outstanding environmental protection issues have been properly addressed, and been seen to be properly addressed. Given this project's history of habitat destruction, the lack of any effective controls and accountability, and the almost uncountable cost of repairing the damage already incurred, people have every reason to be alarmed.. Undertakings have recently been made regarding public consultation. We have been given vague assurances that the disastrous mistakes made in the south will not be repeated here. Any impression that these undertakings are being evaded at this early stage, can only aggravate an already highly volatile situation, and you must assume there will be confrontation. If the contracts are signed, the contractors need to be advised by you that opposition is highly likely, as was no doubt made clear at the recent VIHP/MOTH meeting in Merville on June 4, 1997. In the circumstances, any failure on your part to properly advise the contractors of their risks could well result in civil suits at a later date. We recommend you delay signing any contracts, Yours sincerely, ernie yacub laichwiltach/komeenook territory box 569, cumberland, b.c. canada V0R 1S0 please copy to: John Dyble, MoTH 250 387 3280 / 6431 fax Lois Boone, MoTH, 250 387 1978 / 356 2290 fax Glen Clark, Premier 250 387 1715 / 0087 fax From ???@??? Sun Jun 22 22:33:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-83.islandnet.com [198.53.172.83] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wfwDo-0006axC for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 16:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 16:39:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: grizzly@netidea.com (by way of impulse@islandnet.com) (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- slocan valley south X-UIDL: b1276add2931ce179b70d887c3ca0937 (I am forwarding this to allies who do not appear to be on the original distribution list. If you DO want to receive updates from the Slocan Valley, contact Candace at grizzly@netidea.com) Hello: This is the first test of our new email list, wish we are establishing for the purpose of sending out periodic updates on the situation in the Slocan Valley, specifically focussed on the South Slocan Valley and the South Valley Peace Camp. I attach the text of an article that will appear in the next BC Environmental News, and the wish list we are circulating for the South Slocan Valley Peace Camp. (Some of you have already received this if you subscribe to the landwatch list -- please bear with us, thanks). You are encouraged to circulate these postings as far and wide as possible. If you do not wish to be on this list please let me know by return email. Thanks! Candace -------------------------- CITIZENS PEACEFULLY OPPOSE WATERSHED LOGGING Strong Support for Ecosystem-Based Planning in Slocan Valley --by Candace Batycki The citizens of the Slocan Valley have been around. We went to the CORE process. We went to Victoria with over $4000 worth of value-added products made from one cedar tree, in order to illustrate to government that we are ready to create real transition. We've gone to "public input" meetings, to demonstrations, and to the limits of personal sacrifice when we blockaded road construction in Hasty Creek in 1991. We have a world-class alternative in the Ecosystem-Based Plan for the Slocan Valley, designed by the Silva Forest Foundation. An Angus Reid poll showed over 90% of Valley residents support the concepts underlying this plan. Yet we are now facing a summer of potential civil disobedience: Slocan Forest Products has never been closer to building logging roads into the sensitive watersheds of the Slocan Valley. Almost every watershed is threatened. Road-building and cutting permits have been issued for New Denver Flats. Road permits have been applied for in Bonanza, Climax and Hasty (again) Creeks. A permit to build a road into the Elliot-Anderson watershed complex is expected to be submitted to the MoF any day now, and a road permit for Silverton Creek isn't far off. And the MoF is accepting bids for road-building and woodlot licenses in Perry Ridge. The Slocan Valley is full of steep, unstable slopes. The severe landslides we are experiencing this spring, many associated with past road-building and logging, illustrate clearly the high levels of risk associated with industrial development in areas like this. Respected hydrologist Al Isaacson has written reports for many Slocan Valley watersheds, in most cases predicting hydrological disaster if cutting plans proceed as proposed. The citizens of the Slocan Valley are being held hostage to a corporate agenda which places profits well ahead of people, ecosystems and healthy, diverse economies. Many of us believe that once Slocan Forest Products clearcuts our watersheds they will leave town anyway. The trees in the watersheds are all they have left, and they will cut and run. We need your help. Water-user groups are preparing to peacefully protest the road-building. A non-violence training workshop and a peacekeeper training workshop were recently held in the South Slocan Valley, and water users in the North Valley are preparing to do the same. The South Valley is planning a peace camp, similar to the Clayoquot Sound peace camp, where people can come to stay, do non-violence trainings, learn about the issues, and participate in protests. ROAD CONSTRUCTION COULD BEGIN ANY DAY. WHAT YOU CAN DO: 1. Write to Premier Glen Clark and send copies to Forest Minister David Zirnhelt and Nelson-Creston MLA Corky Evans. Tell them you are disappointed that the government refuses to heed the wishes of the people and negotiate with the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance towards implementation of a sustainable economy and ecology. All are at: Parliament Buildings Victoria, BC V8X 1M4 2. Send donations of materials goods and money for the South Valley peace camp. Contact Jivan or Candace (contact info below) to receive a wish list. Anything you can send will be gratefully appreciated. Make cheques payable to P.E.A.C.E. 3. Prayers and good wishes help us keep our spirits up and bring about change on unseen levels. Every Wednesday evening from 7 pm to 8 pm has been designated as a time to spend in meditation or prayer for the forests and wildlife of the Slocan Valley. Blessed be. 4. WE WANT YOUR BODY. If you don't already live here, plan to spend some time in the beautiful Slocan Valley this summer. We have a wonderfully diverse culture, great organic food, a beautiful river and lake, incredible forests and alpine meadows, and the best water in the world. Come prepared to camp (self-sufficient except for meals) and participate in peace camp and in protests on the roads and in the streets. SEE YOU SOON! CONTACT: General Information: Kathy Loxam, Coordinator, Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance 250-359-7185 (phone/fax), gellox@netidea.com South Valley Peace Camp: Jivan Vasant, 250-355-2793 (to donate to peace camp) Candace Batycki, 250-355-2327 (phone/fax), grizzly@netidea.com Peace Camp Mailing Address: P.E.A.C.E. c/o Jivan Vasant RR #1, G-8, C-26 Winlaw, BC V0G 2J0 ------------------------------------ PERRY'S PEACE CAMP SOUTH SLOCAN VALLEY WATERSHED PROTECTION CAMP WISH LIST ORGANIC FOOD Grains (bread, rice, quinoa, millet, couscous, rolled oats, 7-grain cereal, cold cereal, flour -- whole wheat/ w.w. pastry/ spelt/ kamut, pasta); dried fruit (raisins, currants, dates); nuts and seeds; fresh fruit and berries; salad greens; root vegetables; other fresh vegetables; dried legumes (beans, lentils); canned goods (tomatoes, condiments, jams); other staples -- sugar/peanut butter/ honey; spices; herbs; sproutable seeds. KITCHEN Propane 4-burner cookstove; propane tanks; propane; large sinks; pots and pans; cooking utensils; plates, bowls, mugs and cutlery; storage jars; spice jars; food pails with lids; serving spoons, ladles; dishwashing liquid (biodegradable), pot scrubbers, dish cloths, dishwashing tubs; kitchen tent; bear-proofing materials for food storage; cob or packed earth oven. TOOLS Axe, maul and wedge; picks; spades; shovels; hammers; handsaw; prybar; hacksaw; lots of duct tape; bow saw; sledgehammers; rake; screwdrivers; nails and screws; rope and twine; scissors; paint brushes; old paint; sign & banner material; tarps; spikes for anchoring; gardening tools; come-along. HUMAN NEEDS Toilet paper; outhouses; ash; sink and mirror; outdoor shower set-up; biodegradable soap; first aid kits; homeopaths and herbalists, certified wilderness first aiders, doctor on call; candles; Coleman propane lanterns; group facilitators; body and spirit healers; peacekeepers and non-violence trainers; listeners. CAMP Dry firewood; parachute-type tarp; access to large indoor space; safe homes; billetting homes; story tellers and musicians; clowns and theatrical people; overflow camping space; access to electricity; notice board; info table. TRANSPORTATION School bus; errand cars; parking space; mountain bikes; mechanic services; oil and gas; drivers; use of heavy duty truck. COMMUNICATION Access to computers, fax machine, photocopiers, telephone, e-mail, internet and electricity; cell phones; walkie-talkies; whistles; airhorns; megaphone; access to television and VCR; printing services; sign-making services; photographers, equipment and processing; video cameras and tapes; audio tape recorders; newsletter contributors, editor and layout/production services; radio scanners; VHF hand-held, two-way radios; recycled and "one-side-good" paper. LEGAL Local lawyers; people to give briefings on the law, legal process, people's rights, and legal precedence; court support people; legal defence fund. FINANCIAL Financial donations for camp operating costs and incidentals (Peace Camps held elsewhere have shown these costs can run into the tens of thousands of dollars in addition to in-kind donations). PEOPLE People power is needed in many, many different kinds of roles. Feel free to ask how your energy, experience, interests or skills may help to save Slocan Valley's watersheds. Even better, bring your own ideas! TO DONATE TO THE PEACE CAMP, PLEASE CONTACT: Nelson: Jen (at Earth Matters), 352-2140 Slocan Valley: Jivan, 355-2793 Thanks! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Candace Batycki PO Box 957 Nelson, BC V1L 6A5 250-355-2327 (phone/fax) May you never thirst. - Starhawk * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- impulse@islandnet.com Impulse Communications Invest in the millenium . . . . . . Plant sequoias. From ???@??? Sun Jun 22 22:34:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-83.islandnet.com [198.53.172.83] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wfwIv-0006c3C for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 16:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 16:44:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- No carbon tax likely (surprise, surprise) X-UIDL: 7f9a58e0c7109fd2de9e372be822f940 Tue 17 Jun 1997 - The Calgary Herald - News - A1 / FRONT [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Goodale: No carbon tax By: Sydney Sharpe, Calgary Herald No carbon tax or new National Energy Program will arise to haunt the Canadian oilpatch, Ralph Goodale, Canada's new natural resources minister said Monday. ``Allay your fears, and we'll all work together,'' Goodale said while visiting a Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' symposium in Calgary. ``I know it is an old anxiety that keeps recurring,'' he said. ``I would hope that through good work, good policies and good communications, we will continue to allay that anxiety.'' Goodale said that the previous minister, Anne McLellan, and the minister of finance, Paul Martin, have been clear about not implementing a carbon tax or another NEP. The NEP is generally believed to have cost producers and the Alberta government $60 billion. Implemented by Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government in 1980, the policy of setting the price of Canadian oil at 25 per cent below world prices was eliminated by Brian Mulroney's Conservatives after 1984. ``I'm aware of that old history and the lingering concern that it caused,'' Goodale noted. ``But I think it is very important to underscore that (the NEP) was a long time ago and the page has long since been turned.'' By 1987, the vestiges of the NEB were gone. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Thu May 02 20:52:41 1996 Return-Path: Received: from i2-63.islandnet.com [198.53.172.63] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wgPAd-0006iIC for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:33:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- BC Newspaper Advocy Ad Appeal (Urgent) X-UIDL: c7401e80a0cd1bf5bafa8f9ec3be866e PLEASE CIRCULATE (Apologies for Any Duplications Received) ---------------- Dear Friends of the Marine Environment: The B.C. Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) will be delivering its report to Cabinet this month. Government officials have told us that the Ministers will likely make their decision on the EAO's recommendations within the next month to six weeks. We have met with key Ministers and have had an encouraging response, and have turned in a Sign-on Letter with 167 organizational endorsements (please request from HBreen@Island.Net should you wish to receive list), calling for major changes to the industry. Since we met with the Ministers, the industry has also met with them and no doubt is pressing hard to have them lift the moratorium and give a green light to salmon farm expansion, perhaps with minor reforms. Minor reforms are not enough. Profound structural change is needed if the industry is to be allowed to expand, in order for it to co-exist along with healthy wild stocks and a sustainable marine ecosystem. Continued pressure is necessary. It is especially important to show the government that virtually all sectors of the public want to see the moratorium retained until essential changes are made and the industry has cleaned up its act so as to no longer endanger wild salmon, the marine ecosystem or human health. Georgia Strait Alliance plans to do a full-page ad (at the end of this month or first week of July) in the Times-Colonist. The bulk of the page will be an open letter to the provincial government, which will be followed by the names of prominent individuals as well as organizations that have endorsed the ad. We hope that literally hundreds of individuals will also sign on to the ad and that it will make a powerful and convincing case for change that decision-makers can simply not ignore. An individual has generously offered to front the money for the ad so long as most of it is recovered. We are asking individuals or organizations who would like to sign on, to try to make a donation of between $10 and $50 (sliding scale - you decide) towards the cost. The ad will cost approximately $5500. If donations dramatically exceed expectations we will run an ad in BC's largest newspaper the Vancouver Sun (circ. 500,000; cost $9,700). The last time we did a sign-on letter, many of you suggested changes to the text. Because of time constraints and because many people had already forwarded the letter to others via email or fax we felt we could not, in all conscience, change the text in any substantive way. However, we have incorporated those suggestions as best we could in the draft ad text, which follows. We ask for your patience and tolerance again on this: between now and publication date, we may make minor changes to the text to improve its effectiveness (and we'd welcome your suggestions on this along with appropriate graphics), but these changes will NOT be substantive and will not change the basic points made in the letter. With time constraints, it simply isn't possible to incorporate substantive changes and ensure that everyone signing on gets to reconsider and re-approve. So, we hope that you can sign on to the basic message as shown below. If you would like to sign on, please send the following info to HBreen@island.net, no later than June 25th: -your name -your title and organization (if signing for an organization or business) -an identifying phrase: eg. Jane Doe, wildlife artist (if signing as an individual) -please indicate clearly whether you are signing as an individual or on behalf of your organization or business -if your organization or business is outside of BC, please indicate where Donations towards the ad should be sent to: Georgia Strait Alliance, #201 - 195 Commercial St., Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G5, or can be done by VISA by calling GSA at 250-753-3459. Please indicate this is for "newspaper ad", and have donations in to us no later than June 30. If you or your organization can't afford to donate towards the ad but want to sign on, let us know, and we will include you, space permitting. Thanks very much. Laurie MacBride Executive Director Gerorgia Strait Alliance ............................Ad Details Below............................ The following letter will be accompanied with an appropriate graphic/ or photograph (i.e. fish floating belly up in netcage?) and the remainder of the page will list organizational (no staff cited) and individual endorsements, and efforts the public can undertake. LETTER TEXT: An Open Letter to the Government of British Columbia Over the 10 month-long provincial Salmon Aquaculture Review process, stakeholder groups, coastal citizens and scientific experts have brought forth a great many issues from British Columbia and around the world, and have made it clear that salmon farming, as currently practiced, poses an unacceptable risk to wild salmon and other marine species. The recent outbreak of infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) among farmed Atlantic salmon in southern Johnstone Strait has graphically illustrated the potential to destroy our precious wild Pacific salmon species - highly susceptible to IHN - through disease transfer from farmed fish. An infected netcage cannot be quarantined from the rest of the marine environment. Must we wait to act until fish farming results in a disease outbreak like the one in Norway, which affected 72 rivers in just seven years, and required officials to apply poison to "sterilize" those rivers and then begin to slowly, painfully, re-stock them? There are many other areas of concern, including the ongoing escapes from netcages and the risks these pose to wild salmon. Since fish farming started in BC there have been more than one million escaped fish. In streams and rivers where wild salmon populations are under stress, escaped fish could displace wild stocks. How can we be sure they are not digging up egg masses of wild salmon, eating juvenile wild salmon or the species that these young fish depend upon, or over-running the limited spawning and rearing habitat that is needed by wild salmon? The answer is, we cannot. The Review has flagged many additional concerns, including pollution from fish farm waste, killing and dispersal of marine mammal predators, public health risks from antibiotic residues in farmed salmon and other species found near fish farms, siting of salmon farms in environmentally-sensitive areas and dilution of the Pacific gene pool from escaped farm fish. In addition, the Review has identified a myriad of data gaps and scientific uncertainties which need to be better understood and addressed before the salmon farming industry is allowed to expand. In the absence of certainty, caution should be more than just a guideline - it should be the rule. In short, we believe that current initiatives being taken by the government of British Columbia to protect, enhance and restore wild salmon could be compromised if the adverse impacts and risks of salmon farming are not effectively addressed. Our Pacific salmon stocks - and the rest of the marine ecosystem - must be protected from the adverse impacts of netcage salmon farms. Therefore, we urge you to: •Require replacement of netcages with closed containment systems by December 31, 1999; •Prohibit the use of Atlantic Salmon; •Ban the use of acoustic deterrent devices, explosives, firearms and underwater traps for predator control; •Ensure that no farms are on or near environmentally senstive areas including wild fish migration routes, spawning and rearing areas, salmon streams and estuaries, seal haul-outs and shellfish beaches; •Require immediate relocation of existing farms that are on or near environmentally sensitive areas •Require mandatory labeling of farmed fish; •Require mandatory reporting of farmed fish escapes, disease outbreaks and drug use at all fish farms; •Ban the use of night lights (pit-lamping), except those required for navigational safety; •Remove aquaculture from the Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act; •Require mandatory referral to First Nations for all applications impacting First Nations' communities; •Replace existing guidelines with effective, enforceable regulations; •Initiate a mandatory resource rent or levies for full cost recovery; •Require fish farms to carry insurance to cover costs of full ecological restoration for damages they have caused; •Immediately prohibit lake-rearing; •Eliminate the use of fish that is suitable for human consumption as the primary feed for farmed salmon; and •Retain the current moratorium on new salmon farm licenses until all of the above changes are in place. We hope that you will take advantage of this critical opportunity to preserve British Columbia's rich biological and coastal heritage. Sincerely, Laurie MacBride Executive Director, Georgia Strait Alliance ENDORSEMENTS FOLLOW.... From ???@??? Sun Jun 22 15:09:47 1997 To: grizzly@netidea.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Slocan Valley South Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Please keep me posted on developments at the Slocan Valley South Peace Camp this summer. If you have several email lists, please put me on the one with just a small number of messages, i.e. i do not need frequent updates. Best wishes with your important work. Do you have an email address for Sean Dwyer? In Solidarity, Al Rycroft From ???@??? Mon May 06 19:43:53 1996 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.172.30] [198.53.172.69] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wi3HM-0006cGC for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 12:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 12:35:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: EcoNews Correction X-UIDL: ae264c4c4455e5d40bc19b728a7c5cf4 Of course, the opening editorial should read 'Drive a Car, Starve a Whale', not 'stave' a whale. Duh. Can you correct this if you're forwarding to anyone ? Thanks, Guy Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Updated Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Sat Jul 05 19:16:26 1997 To: ernie yacub From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: send report plse Cc: will thomas Bcc: X-Attachments: Ernie, This was meant for you... AL ---------------------------------------------------------------- >Return-Path: >Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:44:46 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: wilco@mail.islandnet.com >To: emerald@islandnet.com >From: William Thomas >Subject: send report plse >X-UIDL: 38bd695228e9cda9afd414a8b00fc010 > >Ernie! > > How ya doin? I've got the green-flavored light from Monday to hit a >certain island highway and get the story. Please send a copy of the summary >report mentioned in your neighbor's letter. Not as an attachment - unless >it's too long to cut n'paste in an eletter. Gracias. I plan to head >upisland any damn day now.... Best to you, Will >Will Thomas wilco@island.net > > > From ???@??? Wed May 01 14:49:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: from i2-71.islandnet.com [198.53.172.71] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wnJu0-0006e0C for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:21:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: "Gordon Edwards, CCNR president" (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Int'l-- Reuters free environmental news service X-UIDL: 92ff1bf5eaf9ca248449788fe8e578fa From: admin@planet.ark.com.au Subject: 'World Environment News' - Free Service The Reuters News agency and Planet Ark have combined forces to offer you a free global environmental news service. Once you register, we send out daily 'World Environment News' headlines straight to your desktop via e-mail. 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Wed May 01 14:49:44 1996 Return-Path: Received: from i2-71.islandnet.com [198.53.172.71] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wnJtM-0006dAC for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:20:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: grizzly@netidea.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO BC-- first Slocan Valley protest X-UIDL: 90629cfc8c1854f96748637ddcc4c6dd Hello All: The first of what may be many protests is scheduled for this Monday, July 14 in the Slocan Valley. Slocan Valley water users and supporters will gather at the Slocan Valley Peace Village on Monday morning at 5:30 am. From there we will caravan to the head of the proposed Ministry of Forests' 7.7 km road, which is the beginning of the main access road into the consumptive use watersheds of Perry Ridge. Road-building is scheduled to commence there on Monday. We plan a peaceful protest to demonstrate opposition to this premature road-building. Please bring water from your source, rain gear, and a lunch. There will be a potluck dinner at the Peace Village that evening. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Gunter Retterath, 226-7880 Pam Stevenson, 2267747 DIRECTIONS TO SLOCAN VALLEY PEACE VILLAGE: Peace Village is located approximately five to seven minutes north of Winlaw, off Highway Six. Look for an iron dinosaur sculpture on your left. Soon after you will see a BC Tel service shed also on your left, and a road which goes off to the right opposite the shed. This is Rooster Road, and the Peace Village is just up this road. We will have volunteers at the highway to help direct traffic. See you there! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Candace Batycki PO Box 957 Nelson, BC V1L 6A5 250-355-2327 (phone/fax) May you never thirst. - Starhawk From ???@??? Wed May 01 23:08:27 1996 Return-Path: Received: from i3-65.islandnet.com [198.53.175.65] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wo0is-0006g2C for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:04:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:04:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- shell oil spill and other news (fwd) X-UIDL: 7632da350d9acabe6a5c93aa004b582a To: Richard_Boele@bodyshop.co.uk From: mosop@gn.apc.org (The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People - UK) Subject: UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES IN OGONI JUNE 14th 1997: A Major oil spillage at Kegbara Dere around well 31 Bomu Oil field on the pipeline to Bouny. Shell awarded the contract to clean up the oil spill to major Obi Umabi, Chairman RSISTE, using the Gokana Local Government chairman as a front. The clean up operation which is covering the spill site with sand is usually done in the night with armed soldiers on guard. Three hundred acres of farmlands is affected by the spillage. TUESDay JUNE 24th: The Rivers State Government is continuing the inducement of some chiefs from the BanOgoni area were Ogoni natives were evacuated from by govvernment troops in April, 1994 to write reports exonarating the government from the military raids and evacuation but to blame it on communal clashes between the Ogoni and their neighbours. They are asked to do this as a condition for their being allowed to return to their homes. MONDAY 1st JULY: Gen.Yakubu Gowen came to Port Harcourt and invited some Ogoni people to a meeting, claiming that he was sent by Gen.Abacha to come and reconcile the Ogoni people. Those who attended the meeting included Prof.Kinako Dr.B.Naauen, Hon.D.K.Badom, Chief Apenu, Dr.Birabi, Priscila Vikue, Lekue Loolo, J.S.Kogbara, Chief Ohukwemela Nnam Obi, Obaof Ogbaland, Robinson O.Robinson, Eze Ekpeye Logbo. Throughout his visit to Rivers State Gen.Gowan was told that any peace initative in Ogoni must involve MOSOP. He was said to have been informed that MOSOP leaders have been forced into exile abroad and he promised to make contact with them. He also promised to come back in August to continue the peace meeting. FRIDAY 4th JULY: A group of Baptist Church Ministers from the United States of America were taken to Ogoni by the Rivers State Government. Places visited included Giokoo (the scene of the May 1994 murders) Kegbara Dere, (Bomu) Flow station. They were conducted around by Major Obi Umahi, Commander of the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force who throughout the guided tour presented the visitors with the government version of the Ogoni crises. At Giokoo, inhabitants of the village, especially those along the road and surroundings of the Gberemeno Palace were forcefully evacuated from their houses by Major Umahi's Security Task Force. The evacuation lasted for 12 hours during which government agents made up of hired prosecution witnesses at the Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal such as Mr. Celestine Mmeabe and other agents like Mr. Mason Bor, Gabriel Pidom son took over the vacated houses and posed as the rightful owners and remained there to play government script to the unsuspecting visitors. Giokoo and Nwe-ol villages were thoroughly harassed during the evacuation exercise preceeding the visit. The house of late Chief Kosi Giadom of Giokoo whose wife died midlast year as a result of the torture she received from soldiers of the internal Security Task Force, for refusing to vacate her house during one of such mock visits last year was used as an entertainment centre by the government agents. They kept three jars of palm wine from which they served themselves and the visitors. ------ *** ------ Richard Boele Human Rights Campaigner Tel: 01903 731500 extn 7377 Fax: 01903 844021 ------ *** ------ The Body Shop International Plc. Tel: +44 1903 731500 http://www.the-body-shop.com From ???@??? Wed Jul 16 00:38:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-108.islandnet.com [198.53.172.108] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0woMGp-0006dVC for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:04:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: ENGO BC-- DFO called international 'laughing stock' X-UIDL: 0394cd840402dcea7f352164cd0112c0 Mon 23 Jun 1997 - The Ottawa Citizen - News - A1 / Front [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Department called international `laughing stock': International Fund for Animal Welfare official calls for inquiry into fisheries ministry By: Erin Anderssen Calling Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans an international ``embarrassment,'' the director of a worldwide conservation group's Canadian arm has added his voice to those demanding a public inquiry into the country's fisheries policies. ``Canada has become a laughing stock in the international fisheries community,'' said Rick Smith, the Canadian head of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. ``If the situation is not corrected, and the people who are the problem in the department are not taken to task, we're going to see more stocks collapse and more misery for fishing communities across the country.'' Last week, three leading biologists published an article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences condemning DFO for ignoring outside research and manipulating its scientists into supporting government policy. ``There is an urgent need,'' the article stated, ``for public scrutiny of the influence of senior-level bureaucrats in the management of Canada's natural resource.'' The article called for a publicly funded, independent body of scientists to replace DFO, to conduct stock assessments and study ways to save the fisheries. DFO officials have denied the contents of the article and accused the authors -- among them one of the world's top fisheries scientists -- of tabloid journalism. In a letter to the journal's publisher, the National Research Council, DFO deputy minister Bill Rowat described the article as an ``ill-conceived and unfounded attack.'' But Mr. Smith said DFO officials are only continuing to cover up their blunders. ``The department has lost whatever integrity it has,'' he said. ``It has not one ally in Canada and Fisheries Minister David Anderson has to look at that.'' Like the authors of the journal article, Mr. Smith says DFO ignored important research that showed the Atlantic cod stocks were failing long before the government chose to act. ``Top-level decision-makers have a long history of ignoring the advice of scientists on the ground,'' he said. ``If this level of disaster had occurred in other departments, there would certainly have been a public inquiry.'' The department is still making the same mistakes, he said. It has ``fallen down'' on conservation measures by failing to ratify United Nations treaties that would protect the sea's resources. And he said it has remained blind to what caused the cod collapse in the first place. Many scientists now believe that overfishing was the dominant -- if not only -- cause of the collapse. But DFO, Mr. Smith said, still dismisses research that says seals and bad weather were not major factors. He said that the department continues to talk about exploding seal populations when studies show the seal boom levelling off. And the government, he said, has done nothing about new research that says seals actually help cod by eating predators, like squid. Where Atlantic cod were concerned, ``DFO didn't act on the best advice available at the time,'' Mr. Smith said, ``and they continue to search for scapegoats. ``That's what prompted members of the international scientific community to look at DFO and laugh.'' Department officials, however, say Canada's stock-assessment process is more open than any in the world. During the last few years, they say, more independent scientists and fishermen have been brought into the process. In 1993, the government formed the Fisheries Resources Conservation Board to advise the minister on East Coast fishing policy. But Mr. Smith, whose organization has called for the resignation of the chair of the conservation board, said its members are only ``political flunkies'' and fishermen, with only one or two actual scientists. ``Their advice is ill-informed and unscientific,'' he said. Mr. Smith said hope of change lies with Canada's new fisheries minister, David Anderson, a former environmental consultant who once served as lawyer for the British Columbia Wildlife Federation. ``This is an opportunity for the minister to break with the failed policies of the past'' Mr. Anderson could not be reached for comment last night. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Wed Jul 16 00:38:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-108.islandnet.com [198.53.172.108] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0woMIS-0006gAC for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:06:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: ENGO Canada/Atmosphere-- Green debate strains summit X-UIDL: 05fb8ae81cfbfcb1c4afd8734eb11713 Apologies for the lateness of this news... Al Rycroft ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Sun 22 Jun 1997 - The Calgary Herald - News - A1 / FRONT [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Green debate strains summit By: Reuters-Southam News-Calgary Herald Environmental issues are shaping up as a sore point for the world's largest industrialized states as European members attacked Canada, the United States and Japan for not supporting sharp cuts in greenhouse gases. The tough criticism comes just days after Canada's new Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale told the Calgary-based Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers that no carbon tax will arise to haunt the oilpatch. Ahead of a UN Earth Summit in New York this week, the four European Union members of the rich countries' club, the Group of Seven, have had little success with their demand that the G7 aim to cut carbon dioxide and other gases by 15 per cent by 2010, EU officials said. Canada is viewed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy as one of the biggest culprits. It failed to meet its pledge at the 1992 Earth Summit to freeze greenhouses gases at 1990 levels by 2000. Environment Canada estimates emissions are actually up 9.2 per cent over 1990 levels, making Canada the second-largest per-capita offender behind the U.S., and forecasts they could rise 18 per cent by 2010. ``Canada is losing a lot of its international goodwill because of its performance, especially on climate change,'' said Louise Comeau of the Sierra Club of Canada. But Canada's oil and gas industry -- fearful of federally imposed carbon taxes -- is making great strides in persuading companies to take voluntary measures to reduce their emissions, said David Manning, president of CAPP. He said 115 companies have registered their intent or unveiled action plans. In Denver, U.S. President Bill Clinton, host of this year's summit, sent back the senior officials advising each leader to draw up a clear statement on the environment to be issued today. German officials said Chancellor Helmut Kohl opened a frank exchange of views on the environment at a closed-door summit session and stressed the need for clear targets. ``The chancellor discussed the issue very, very openly and called it the most difficult issue at the summit,'' one official said. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook put down North American resistance to ambitious targets to a cultural divide between Europe and the U.S. and Canada. ``Both of them find it very difficult to deal with a domestic audience which is still very much in a culture of large, extravagant, private cars and generous consumption of energy as a cheap commodity,'' he said. But the issue is alarming, he added: ``The lifestyle of America and elsewhere canot be contained much beyond another quarter of a century without serious effects on our climate.'' Carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases are blamed for global warming. - END - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Tue Jul 22 22:50:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-26.islandnet.com [198.53.175.26] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wqWWv-0006f1C for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970721212701.3347411c@mail.islandnet.com> X-Sender: impulse@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:27:01 To: impulse@islandnet.com From: impulse@islandnet.com Subject: RCMP To Enforce New Denver Flats Injunction Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: 8dd789e0bbc5a658ee14800b74eb7b51 The Valhalla Wilderness Society Box 329 New Denver British Columbia Canada V0G 1S0 (office) 250-358-2333 (fax) 250-358-7950 (e-mail) vws@web.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 21, 1997 SLOCAN FOREST PRODUCTS MAY CLOSE MILL DOWN TO COUNTER-PROTEST NEW DENVER FLATS BLOCKADE Slocan Valley RCMP have informed protesters blocking the road to New Denver Flats, that the injunction obtained by Slocan Forest Products will be enforced in the morning of Tuesday, July 22, 1997. It is unknown how many, if any, protesters will be arrested. Colleen McCrory, chairperson of the Valhalla Society, says she has heard rumours that Slocan Forest Products may be closing the mill to launch a counter-protest. Some 160 community protesters began blocking the road to New Denver Flats on July 14, at a point within the village limits of New Denver. The Flats provide the back-up water supply for Silverton, which this village used last summer on four occasions, and the primary water supply of four private dwellings including one of the oldest ranches. It is also considered the back-up water source for the village of New Denver should anything go awry with the village's well. “SFP has already caused long-lasting scars in this community by forcing their way into what is virtually the backyards of New Denver and Silverton," McCrory stated. “They’re getting their wood and they’re getting to destroy the old-growth ecosystem and mess up people's water - what more do they want? They'll be tearing our community apart in more ways tan one if this happens.” “There is broad agreement on the need to protect water in this valley," says McCrory. ““An Angus Reid poll showed 97% of valley people believe water should be protected. Many loggers regret having to ruin their neighbour's water. That's why there have been no more than eight counter-protesters here at any one time, and that’s why we've had a peaceful, dignified protest here. “To legitimize this destructive, aggressive act, the IWA has sent out a press release stating the blockade is staffed by extremists brought in by the Valhalla Wilderness Society. But what they will really be doing is pouring this intimidation out on long-standing members of our community, many of them seniors. The Valhalla Society directors have not and will not be standing on the road." McCrory said most protesters on the road have been local people. “Some are from neighbouring valleys or from other parts of the Slocan Valley and they have come because they know that what is happening at New Denver Flats is going to happen in their watershed too. But most are from the local community of New Denver, Silverton and outlying rural residents." The residents are extremely aggravated because the opposition to the logging by the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance, municipalities, RDCK representative, Valhalla Society, village councils of New Denver and Silverton, and residents throughout the Slocan has been ignored. Anne Sherrod, a spokesperson for the Valhalla Society states, “It’s only what the logging company wants that matters. Even tough SFP is one of the wealthiest corporations in BC, in which the BC government is the third largest stockholder, behind their pious statements they have no care for communities. The widespread concerns for water purity and flow, preserving the last old-growth accessible to the villages, for biodiversity and native people's interests, mean nothing to the government. They pretend to listen but rubber-stamp the logging anyway." She states, “All this flies in the face of the fact that logging New Denver Flats, including the water reserves now known as community watersheds, will provide19 days of work at the Slocan mill, maximum. And it is for this work and its profits that SFP, whose net earnings are in the hundred millions, has been allowed to demolish community relations throughout the valley along with Slocan watersheds and long-term logging jobs too." Contact: Anne Sherrod 250-358-2610 Colleen McCrory 358-2333 From ???@??? Wed Jul 23 22:03:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-63.islandnet.com [198.53.172.63] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wrG2M-0006ejC for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:02:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: giraphic@islandnet.com,views@islandnet.com,wg577@freenet.victoria.bc.ca,wr336@freenet.victoria.bc.ca,views@islandnet.com,carmanah@pacificcoast.net,gdauncey@islandnet.com,emerald@IslandNet.com,era@pinc.com,kpegg@island.net,skies@islandnet.com,wilcoFrom: Paul Senez (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Sierra Club National Job Opening X-UIDL: 8cca00c81c6b633a90499bb6b51f0b4d The Sierra Club of Canada has asked that the following opening for the position of Director, Membership Services and Development be forwarded. ************ >EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY > > > >Sierra Club of Canada > >Director, Membership Services and Development > > >Sierra Club of Canada is a national, grass-roots organization dedicated to >the protection of our global environment. The Director of Membership >Services and Development will be responsible for the implementation of the >Club's national membership strategy. The role will also involve some >fundraising work. > >As the ideal candidate you are a dedicated, environmentally aware person >who possesses membership experience within a non-profit organization. >Specifically, you have successfully undertaken prospect mailings, >development and fundraising programs and have demonstrated your ability to >work effectively in partnership with other organizations and with members. >Preferred candidates will be bilingual and possess database management skills. > >This is a full-time position. Salary is non-negotiable at $30,000 plus >benfits. If interested, please forward your resume by Friday, July 25th to: > > > >Ruth Edwards >Sierra Club of Canada >412-1 Nicholas Street >Ottawa, Ontario >K1N 7B7 >(613) 241-2292 (fax) >sierra@web.net From ???@??? Sat Jul 26 21:53:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-51.islandnet.com [198.53.175.51] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0ws06l-0006drC for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:13:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- It's all about killing fish, methinks X-UIDL: 55aeda2bb5989cd77dcbdb55e95f3e72 it's all about killing fish and therein lies the fatal flaw... follow the words for the meaning...not wild salmon, but wild coho stocks...like inventory in a warehouse. the key line (as in cornerstone) below..."These stocks provide the foundation for important commercial, recreational and Indian fisheries." in this context, the inland island highway destruction of salmon habitat is simply a matter of numbers and semantics...just a little more work "rebuilding wild coho stocks." as vihp project manager said at the meeting in merville, "you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"...especially when they are salmon eggs. who then speaks for eagle and bear? who speaks for us? ernie yacub >______________________________ >STRAIT OF GEORGIA COHO SALMON >PLANNING PROCESS AND RECOMMENDATIONS >SOUTH COAST COHO INITIATIVE FINAL REPORT > >March 1992 > >EXECUTIVE SUMMARY > >1. Wild coho stocks in the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River >are declining. These stocks provide the foundation for important >commercial, recreational and Indian fisheries. Their decline >threatens the viability of these fisheries and reduces the >genetic diversity essential to the health and sustainability of >the coho population as a whole. > >2. In 1989, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (the >Department) Coho Steering Committee (the Committee) and fishery >advisors began to plan a wild coho rebuilding program. This >Final Report presents the results of the planning process and >makes recommendations that together form a program for rebuilding >wild coho stocks. > >3. Evidence for the decline in wild Strait of Georgia coho is >provided in the Status and Interim reports. Overfishing and >habitat loss are believed to be responsible for the decline in >wild coho. The proportion of Strait of Georgia coho being caught >-- the exploitation rate -- currently averages 10 percentage >points higher than the 65-70 percent rate considered optimal >for sustaining stocks over the long term. > >4. Overfishing and habitat loss are largely manifestations of a >greater challenge to the survival of wild coho: the effects of >human population growth. The population in B.C. is expected to >double in the next 20 years, which means both increasing habitat >degradation and loss due to urban, agricultural and industrial >development and increasing commercial and recreational fishing >pressure. Consequently, overfishing and habitat loss in this area >will continue to diminish the wild coho resource until an >acceptable balance between coho and human needs can be found. > >5. Benefits of rebuilding wild coho will include: in two to four >life cycles (six to twelve years), 300,000 to 800,000 more fish >available to the fishery each year; maintenance of the genetic >diversity of the species; raising of awareness regarding the need >to protect coho habitat; protection of habitat used by all salmon >species; and preservation of aesthetic and recreational values in >streams and waterways. > >6. Four stages of the consultative planning process have now been >completed. These stages include the preparation of a Coho Status >Report; consultations with commercial, recreational and native >fishery advisors and public open houses; production of the >Interim Report; and this Final Report describing public, >government and interest group concerns identified during the >consultations and making recommendations for rebuilding wild coho >stocks. Next, the recommendations will be reviewed by the Pacific >Advisory Regional Council (PARC) and forwarded to the Minister of >Fisheries and Oceans (the Minister) for his direction. Finally, >the action plan will be implemented, probably beginning in 1992. From ???@??? Sat Jul 26 21:53:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-51.islandnet.com [198.53.175.51] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0ws0AZ-0006caC for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:17:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: ENGO Int'l-- We `owe' the Earth $33 trillion a year X-UIDL: 3eb3662e80cdcfd72ec14d98ab6b73f8 Fri 25 Jul 1997 - The Ottawa Citizen - News - A1 / Front [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] We `owe' the Earth $33 trillion a year: Study urges politicians to add contribution of nature to bottom line By: Richard Starnes The Earth hands out $33 trillion U.S. in goods every year that the human race does not have to pay a penny for. That's almost twice the world's annual Gross Domestic Product, according to a 13-member group of American scientists and economists who have taken 15 years to put a value on what nature provides. ``We decided it was time for someone to value the ecosystems of the Earth as we whittle it away,'' says geographer Bruce Hannon, a member of the group, which was led by University of Maryland Prof. Robert Costanza. ``Mostly, we pulled together hundreds of smaller studies that have been done on ecosystem values,'' says Mr. Hannon. ``Now we can value this properly so people can discuss it and argue over it. We want people to understand what they are losing as we pollute the oceans and rivers of the world.'' The group believes that economists usually study only things like man-made products, which are easier to quantify. And they are convinced that little, if any, weight is given to natural values when policy decisions are made. They want their work to highlight the contribution nature makes to human existence -- like the air we breathe or the water we drink -- so that decision-makers will give serious consideration to the Earth's contribution. ``When we started this in what I might call a cocktail party discussion, we realized if the ecosystem was worth only one or two per cent of the GDP, it would be relatively unimportant,'' says retired University of Wyoming economics Prof. Ralph Darge. ``But it turned out to be enormous. ``Now we know if nature had a dictatorial brain and came to the table and said, `Thirty-three trillion dollars a year is the amount we want you to pay for what we are giving you,' at existing prices, people would not be able to pay for what they are using.'' In their evaluations, the team divided the contribution provided by Earth into 17 categories, ranging from climate regulation to the cultural value of attractive natural landscapes for artists to draw or tourists to enjoy. Then they split the Earth into 16 regions -- such as oceans or forests, range land or estuaries, and gave them values based on the 17 categories. But it wasn't easy. Both Mr. Hannon and Mr. Darge explain that they have erred on the side of caution, and call the results ``ball-park'' figures. Mr. Hannon points out that every calculation was full of variables. For example, when farmers in Illinois increased the use of phosphates and nitrogen in their fields, they enormously increased the corn yield. That's increased value. However, nitrogen and phosphate residues seeped into streams and rivers and eventually reached the Gulf of Mexico at least 160 kilometres away. These residues -- especially nitrogen -- cause so much organic activity that they have taken the oxygen out of the water and created an low-oxygen area in the Gulf several hundred kilometres long and 80 kilometres wide. Fish that pass through the area die. That represents a huge loss to the fishing industry. Mr. Darge, who operates a horse ranch on the outskirts of Lexington, Kentucky, took a particular interest in range lands. Included in these calculations were the value of fodder the Earth allows farmers to grow for animals. Those crops in turn reduce soil erosion and contribute to the balance of gases in the biosphere. These items do not have a concrete value but do have a bearing on the quality of the air that keeps us alive and because of that, a value can be attached to them. ``If range lands were not doing this and we had to get these services for ourselves, how would we do it and how much would it cost?'' he asks. ``And remember, ecosystems are more efficient than anything we can come up with.'' In making its findings public in a lengthy scientific paper in Nature magazine, the group was attempting to wake up policy-makers to the importance of what nature hands us for free. ``This neglect may ultimately compromise the sustainability of humans in the biosphere,'' the paper warns. ``The economies of the Earth would grind to a halt without the services of ecological life-support systems. So in one sense, their total value to the economy is infinite.'' ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Sat Jul 26 21:54:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wsAc1-0006g1C for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 10:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.50.2.49] (io2p7.ark.com [204.50.2.72]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20991; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 10:26:01 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 10:26:01 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dfi-list@kinch.ark.com, micec@onenw.org From: ernie yacub Subject: dolly charet hunger strike and other kootenay news (fwd) X-UIDL: 5205452814e3753e4cab8600016cb958 news from the kootenays... >>Andy Shadrack has been RELEASED. But DOLLY CHARET refused to say she >>wouldn't break the law again if water depended on it. " I AM STANDING UP >>FOR ALL WATERSHEDS." So she has no option from the courts but to be kept in jail until the contempt trial is held SEPT 15. WHY IS SHE NOT ALLOWED A BAIL HEARING? Doesn't make sense. Anyway, even before she was arrested she said she was going on a HUNGER STRIKE which she told the judge about today. "I hope I live long enough to see the hearing," she told the judge. He told her anytime she wanted to sign the paper, she could get out. So far she is being kept at the Nelson city jail. A VIGIL IS PLANNED FOR WED NIGHT, AND, NO DOUBT, MORE VIGILS. In the 70's Dolly smuggled 65 kids out of Cambodia and found them safe families in North America. See Toronto Star and Province stories on her. So her family is pretty sure she'll stick to this. It was not a happy scene when they took her handcuffed to the sheriff's car. Plan a vigil at your jail for Dolly Charet. suzy *** One of the most disturbing aspects of the arrests yesterday were the 150 or so contractors, women and children lined up on the side of the road who jeered the protesters and cheered the swat team and cat as they moved in. They yelled obscenities and called David Hereschoff, a retired university professor a "dirty old man." (He had turned to my husband and said, "Earl, I'm 75 years old and I'm going to be arrested."). It was the most disgusting display of neighborly "compassion." I've seen in a long time. It tests the commitment presever eco-systems for all. What you can do: Call you MLA and say "We want water legislation now and we want to see a copy of the Sustainable Act which has been drafted." *** >>> Calling Burnaby/lower mainland Greens: Tonight we found out that Eloise (Dolly) Charet will be transferred to Burnaby Women's Centre tomorrow Thursday, July 24, until she signs the undertaking or Sept. 15, whichever comes first. We sang to her outside her cell. She is drinking juice but hasn't eaten. Friends, family and greens decided to walk once a day through town (nelson) with updates on Eloise: Clean water for families, not injustice. Free Eloise. Day ____ of her hunger strike for water. " We weren't very prepared for this. Any suggestions for other do-able, simple actions will be welcome. Injunction and enforcement order for Perry Ridge in the Slocan Valley expected next week. Also Hasty Creek and Elliot Anderson Creeks on the block, but no confirmation. We need water legislation NOW. From ???@??? Wed Jul 16 23:19:29 1997 To: earth From: grizzly@netidea.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Slocan Valley hotline Cc: Bcc: ENGO VICTORIA X-Attachments: Protests have begun in the Slocan Valley. On Monday 120 people attended at the site of the proposed Perrys Ridge access road. They were informed that the Ministry of Forests will seek an injunction to prevent citizens from interfering with road construction. As of Tuesday night no injunction had been served. Protesters continue to meet at 5:30 each morning at the Peace Village and caravan to Perrys Ridge, and maintain our presence there to prevent road construction. Please come and join us! If you can't get here by 5:30 drop by the camp and get directions to the protest site. Also on Monday over 160 attended the site of the road into New Denver Flats. A notice of injunction was served at New Denver Flats today (Tuesday). The injunction may be acquired and served to protesters tomorrow. There will be a radio call-in show on CBC radio tomorrow between 1:00 and 2:00 entitled War in the Woods. Please consider calling in and voicing your opinion. We have a new hotline!! The toll-free number is 1-888-221-5599. We will update the hotline message twice a day, in the afternoon and the evening. You can also leave messages there and we will do our best to get back to you quickly. People are welcome to come and stay at Peace Village. Please come self-sufficient as far as camping gear. We have a kitchen but food donations are needed and welcome, as well as gifts of money, tools, time and prayer. PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG TO PEACE VILLAGE. Thanks and hope to see you soon. From ???@??? Thu Jul 17 07:58:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-38.islandnet.com [198.53.175.38] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wokFe-0006dcC for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:41:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: grizzly@netidea.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Slocan Valley hotline X-UIDL: 98baeac1454cfd04eec055bceccac30f Protests have begun in the Slocan Valley. On Monday 120 people attended at the site of the proposed Perrys Ridge access road. They were informed that the Ministry of Forests will seek an injunction to prevent citizens from interfering with road construction. As of Tuesday night no injunction had been served. Protesters continue to meet at 5:30 each morning at the Peace Village and caravan to Perrys Ridge, and maintain our presence there to prevent road construction. Please come and join us! If you can't get here by 5:30 drop by the camp and get directions to the protest site. Also on Monday over 160 attended the site of the road into New Denver Flats. A notice of injunction was served at New Denver Flats today (Tuesday). The injunction may be acquired and served to protesters tomorrow. There will be a radio call-in show on CBC radio tomorrow between 1:00 and 2:00 entitled War in the Woods. Please consider calling in and voicing your opinion. We have a new hotline!! The toll-free number is 1-888-221-5599. We will update the hotline message twice a day, in the afternoon and the evening. You can also leave messages there and we will do our best to get back to you quickly. People are welcome to come and stay at Peace Village. Please come self-sufficient as far as camping gear. We have a kitchen but food donations are needed and welcome, as well as gifts of money, tools, time and prayer. PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG TO PEACE VILLAGE. Thanks and hope to see you soon. From ???@??? Mon Jul 28 22:51:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-82.islandnet.com [198.53.172.82] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wt4vd-0006gUC for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:34:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: Uri Cogan (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Toxic waste as fertilizer X-UIDL: b0438f20538a43055be215c991051611 At 9:09 AM -0700 7/10/97, Dave Cull wrote: >==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >The Seattle Times reports that "toxic heavy metals, toxic chemicals and >radioactive wastes are being recylced as fertilizer and spread over farmers' >fields nationwide" - and their is no federal law prohibiting the practice. --- snip --- This bring up a broader issue, here is a message from another list: ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== From: John Scull Subject: [EP] Nitrogen To: ECOPSYCHOLOGY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU The July issue of Scientific American has an article on "Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle" by Vaclav Smil. He says that the amount of food that can be grown organically is limited by the amount of organic nitrogen available to plants. For millenia, farmers used naturally occuring nitrogen, which limited agricultural output to about 5 people per hectare of land. In the 19th century productivity was increased by mining nitrates stored in bat guano and bird droppings in places like Peru and Nauru. In the 1960s it became possible to manufacture nitrate fertilizer very economically. As a result, world agricultural productivity has become almost unlimited. He estimates that about 1/3 of the world's current protein production depends on synthetic nitrates. But there is a down side to this. Unsafe levels of nitrates now occur in ground and surface water in most agricultural regions. Nitrates are causing eutrophication of fresh water and the death of coral reefs. Nitrogen fertilizers send excesses of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. This gas contributes to destruction of the ozone layer and is a greenhouse gas. While carbon dioxide emissions will be limited as we run out of fossil fuels, there seems to be nothing to stop the excessive use of nitrogen to feed the increasing population. There are many people on this list more knowledgeable about agricultural issues and chemistry than I am. What do you think of this? Given the apparent "necessity" for synthetic nitrogen, would the various proposals for restructuring the economy do anything about this? Why haven't we heard more about this problem? What do organic farmers think of it? ==================END FORWARDED MESSAGE================== Uri Cogan http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4845/ KPT SoHo Gang Member From ???@??? Mon Jul 28 22:52:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-82.islandnet.com [198.53.172.82] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wt4vy-0006gXC for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:34:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: Eric Fawcett (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Atmosphere-- UN Climate Convention, Kyoto,Japan in Nov/1997 X-UIDL: e89428d54988d01638081cac6cc5694a Contact person: Ross Wilcock -----Original Message----- From: B.J.Matthews Sent: Monday, June 09, 1997 2:08 PM To: b.j.h.matthews@uea.ac.uk Dear friend I have now set up an email list dedicated to discussing plans for the journey by train and boat to the UN Climate Convention in Kyoto (leaving mid November). Please tell me if you would like to be added to this list. If you might be interested, now is the time to get involved. To get tickets and funding etc., we need to know specific people at well in advance. We already have over 30 people intending to go (some dependent on raising funds!), from seven countries and several organisations. We have good contacts in Russia and are seeking some in China to arrange meetings with climate campaigners and scientists on the route. The media is already interested in filming the journey. It will be a wonderful opportunity to discuss and publicise climate topics just before Kyoto. And travelling by train produces about 1/3 of the CO2 compared to travelling by air. Further details are on the web site (recently updated) http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e256/kyoto/journey.html I hope I might see you on the train? Ben Matthews From ???@??? Wed Jul 30 22:00:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-30.islandnet.com [198.53.175.30] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wtnFk-0006hBC for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:54:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: grizzly@netidea.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: ENGO Victoria-- Slocan Update X-UIDL: 41faf28dafcaf34f1ff94de16d50aaa1 Hi folks: Well, here's what's happening in the Slocan Valley these days. Sorry if I forgot anything. You can email me back if I did. INJUNCTION SERVED AT PERRY'S RIDGE: Eighty people were present this afternoon (Tueday, July 29) when an injunction was served at the Perry's Ridge protest site. It was a very moving event. People carried blue and white streamers to represent water, and many wore deer masks with ear tags that read "John Doe" and "Jane Doe". Jars of water from dozens of Perry's Ridge sources were placed on a table at the front of the group. An enforcement order will be sought but RCMP have told organizers they do not expect to move in and arrest people until at least next Tuesday and probably not until Wednesday or Thursday. Please do your best to attend. Call the hotline for updates. You will NOT be arrested unless you make that choice. NEW DENVER FLATS: As most of you know the RCMP removed the blockade from New Denver Flats last Tuesday, July 22. Crowd estimates vary but it looked like over 300 to me (the cops said 400). Seven people were arrested. Media coverage was extensive and generally favourable. ARRESTEE ON HUNGER STRIKE: Eloise "Dolly" Charet and her daughter Emma were among the New Denver Flats arrestees. Dolly has refused to sign her release order and has been on hunger strike since her arrest. She is now at the Women's Correctional Centre in Burnaby. Please contact the Lower Mainland Green Party if you would like to support Eloise down at the coast. Also Daniel Hellyer, a friend of Eloise's from Hills, is riding his bicycle to Burnaby with three litres of New Denver water for her. Andy Shadrack is accompanying him by car. They plan to be in Hope on Wednesday, and Vancouver Thursday. Watch/listen for press coverage of Daniel's ride. And take Eloise good water if you're able to. HOTLINE: The hotline continues to be a very valuable communication tool. We try to update it every day. PLEASE try to hang up before the beep if you are not leaving a message; we can only have 30 messages in there at a time and it fills up fast. Hotline is 1-888-221-5599 -- spread it around. PEACE VILLAGE: The village is running smoothly, with 30 - 60 campers at any given time. We had a beautiful official opening ceremony on Saturday, July 26; over 120 people were there and we fed them all! Local ritualist Daystar led a prayer ceremony, and ecoforester Herb Hammond gave a moving presentation, urging people to trust their hearts and instincts and keep fighting for the forests and the water. We had speakers and songs, and then the Valley Drummers helped us kick up some dust until the wee hours. Thanks to all who came out and celebrated with us. A reminder that Peace Village is alway in need of food and money, as well as bodies and energy. BIKE RALLY: Geotropic Productions of Nelson is organizing a fundraising and awareness-raising bike rally for August 23 or 24. Stay tuned for exact dates, and please consider registering and gathering pledges. Registration packages should be available early next week. We'll have the best water in the world on hand for participants! Geotropic plans to end the day with a benefit dance in Nelson. Thanks Geotropic! NELSON CENTENNIAL PARADE: Watch for our float in the Centennial parade in Nelson on Saturday. UNTIL NEXT TIME: If you know of people who would like to subscribe to this update service, please let me know. And don't forget the hotline number: 1-888-221-5599. Thanks for all your love and support. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Candace Batycki PO Box 957 Nelson, BC V1L 6A5 250-355-2327 (phone/fax) May you never thirst. - Starhawk * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From ???@??? Fri Aug 01 23:30:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-64.islandnet.com [198.53.175.64] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wuWcA-0006hYC for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:20:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Earth Canada-- Canada worse industrial polluter than US X-UIDL: 0bb5738e721579d66ad304cab5b22602 Tue 29 Jul 1997 - The Ottawa Citizen - News - A1 / Front [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Canada `outspews' the U.S.: Average plant here pollutes more than twice as much By: Tom Spears Illustration: Graphic/Diagram: Toxic Waste: where it comes from, Top sources: 1. Texas 2. Tennesse 3.Ontario 4. Ohio 5. Louisiana 6. Illinois 7. Alabama 8. Pennsylvania 9.Michigan 10.mississippi 12.Quebec 17.AlbertaCanada Versus the United States, Toxic waste produced by 1,707 Canadians industries and 22,744 American industries: total air emissions US. 705 Mkg Canada 96 Mkg. Average releases (all types) from each industrial site. US. 45,069kg Canada 105,590kg. Total discharge to lakes and rivers: US. 30Mkg Canada 55Mkg. Ontario is the third-largest producer of toxic wastes of all the U.S. states and Canadian provinces, a study of pollution in both countries shows. The study, carried out for the Commission for Environmental Co-operation, the environmental agency set up under the NAFTA deal, marks the first time Canada and the U.S. have combined their national data on who produces toxic wastes and in what amounts. While Ontario's pollution output has been known before, it's the first time our figures have been compared with those of U.S. states. The U.S., where the number of plants vastly outnumber those in Canada, produced more of just about every kind of waste with one exception. Canadian industries, though smaller in number, pumped a larger quantity of liquid waste into lakes and rivers than Americans did. The biggest Canadian sources are wastewater from pulp mills, metal smelters and chemical factories. Canadian plants put a total of 55 million kilograms of pollutants into surface waters, compared with about 30 million for all U.S. industries. As well, Canadian factories, refineries, smelters and other industries emitted on average 105,000 kilograms of pollutants apiece, while the American industries emitted an average of 45,000 kilograms. ``We are interested by what's causing that difference,'' said Sarah Rang, the consultant in charge of the Canadian data. She's hoping to address the causes in next year's annual report, which will use 1995 data. Ontario ranks behind only Texas and Tennessee as a source of pollutants. Ontario covers the entire north side of the Great Lakes, and has a lot of resource-based industries with high levels of wastes: mining and metal smelting, pulp mills and oil refineries. It is Canada's industrial heartland. By comparison, the heavily industrial U.S. side of the Great Lakes is spread among eight states. Several of them rank high on the toxic waste list, too: Ohio fourth, Illinois sixth, Michigan ninth, Indiana 11th. Quebec was 12th and Alberta 17th, but the rest of the provinces didn't make the report's Top 20list. The report looks at data from 24,451 industrial sites in 1994, covering releases to the environment, and also ``transfers'' --waste sent for sewage treatment, landfill or other forms of treated disposal. And it shows these industries released, or sent for waste disposal, 1.5 billion kilograms of toxic chemicals that year. Ms. Rang cautions against reading too much into the data. Since different pollutants have different effects, a tonne of one may be far more dangerous than a tonne of another. Nevertheless, she feels reporting raw tonnages is still valuable, as long as no one reads precise estimates of risks to health or the environment into the report. In 1994, Ontario industries put 57 million kilograms of pollutants into the air, soil and water. That doesn't include non-toxic pollution such as ordinary sewage. Our major pollutants include: 6.7 million kilograms of methanol (released to air and water from pulp mills); 6.3 million kilograms of xylene and 5.6 million of toluene, two solvents used in making plastics, rubbers and glues and which are common ingredients in smog; 5.5 million kilograms of ammonia, a common water pollutant; 2 million kilograms of benzene, an ingredient in gasoline and a carcinogen; and 2.1 million kilograms of manganese, a metal used in a variety of manufacturing processes, and a toxin that accumulates in the body. The province's biggest individual sources of toxic waste were Dofasco Inc. at Hamilton (3.3 million kilograms) and Inco. Ltd near Sudbury (3.1 million kilograms.) The report also shows 48 per cent of the toxic waste from industries across North America is going up smokestacks to the air. Environmentalists say the report shows air pollution still isn't regulated as thoroughly as water pollution. Water, they point out, can be treated if people want to drink it. Air is harder to clean once it's polluted. ``This underscores the need for aggressive action on air pollution,'' said lawyer Rick Lindgren of the Canadian Environmental Law Association. ``We have more laws and regulations that govern water discharges than air discharges.'' Information for 1995 and 1996 hasn't yet been gathered, nor have Mexican data. The Mexican government is in the process of setting up a pollution reporting system. Since this is the first annual report covering Canada and the U.S. combined, there's no comparison with previous years. But Ms. Rang says there has been a steady decline in pollution in both countries. For example, the U.S. data show a 44-per-cent decrease from 1988 to 1994. Canadian industries were responsible for 15 per cent of the pollution measured. ``It is very significant to learn where we stand versus the United States,'' said Dusanka Filipovic, president of EER Canada of Unionville, Ont. Her company does pollution monitoring and combustion engineering. She said our ranking as a leading producer of pollutants shows a lack of initiative in industry, a lack of pollution laws and a lack of regulation of air pollution. Canada has no equivalent to the U.S. Clean Air Act, and lacks financial incentives to make companies want to spend on pollution controls, she said. But a spokesman for the pulp and paper industry says the 1994 figures are dated. Since then the industry has spent nearly $2 billion in pollution controls, said Francois Blain of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. He said the industry recently started a five-year plan to find a sealed system that would end all releases of wastewater from pulp mills. -END- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 8307, Victoria, BC V8W 3R9, CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Fri Aug 01 23:30:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-38.islandnet.com [198.53.175.38] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wuXaV-0006cXC for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:22:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: goldberg@freenet.carleton.ca (Kim Goldberg) (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth BC-- Nanaimo Launch Party - You're Invited! X-UIDL: d0ea311aaa2a87c4c527393d36655819 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %%% It's out -- come help me celebrate! %%% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHERE TO SEE WILDLIFE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND By Kim Goldberg Published by Harbour Publishing, 160 pages, 50 sites, more than 200 colour photos, index, checklists and more! DATE: Saturday, August 9, 1997 TIME: 2:00 p.m. PLACE: The Bookstore on Bastion Street - Nanaimo (downtown, across from Coast Bastion Hotel) Clean fun, free snacks, cool people... maybe even some wildlife! If you're within driving, hiking, paddling, cycling, riding, spelunking, climbing, hang-gliding, fossicking or snorkeling range... >>> BE THERE OR BE UNNATURAL! <<< cu! Kim ^ ^ 0-0 <--- me with binocs spotting a rarely seen but | beautiful snowy owl on the Nanaimo estuary O From ???@??? Thu May 02 22:31:10 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wtzbh-0006bdC for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.50.2.77] (io2p12.ark.com [204.50.2.77]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02612; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:04:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:04:20 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ark-misc@mars.ark.com, micec@onenw.org, streamnet@onenw.org, BIOREGIONAL@csf.colorado.edu From: ernie yacub Subject: WANTED: scientists to sign public statement on threats to marine environment (fwd) Cc: duncan@reform.ca, Comox-Alberni MP , svend X-UIDL: 00a66ce67b0320bf2dfb9a2cb2f3a86b Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 18:03:21 -0800 To: watersci@mail.usyd.edu.au From: atinker@accessone.com (Aaron B Tinker) Subject: watersci: Troubled Waters Statement (sorry for any cross-postings) SCIENTISTS URGE DRAMATIC STRENGTHENING OF MARINE CONSERVATION EFFORTS When scientists speak with one voice, the media, the public and decision makers pay attention. The time is now ripe for scientists to make a public statement on threats to marine biodiversity and the need for action to conserve it. The following statement was drafted and sent to prominent scientists who offered many improvements and signed on. Marine Conservation Biology Institute is now circulating the statement for signatures to marine scientists and conservation biologists (senior scientists and scientists-in-training as well); upon gaining enough signatures, the statement will be released to the media. More than 400 marine scientists and conservation biologists have already signed (partial list follows the statement). Timing is very important in this effort, so please respond by email as soon as possible, and please include your NAME, TITLE, and AFFILIATION. A copy of the statement is also available from our website at http://www.mcbi.org - to sign, please send me an email (Aaron Tinker, MCBI Program Assistant - atinker@accessone.com). TROUBLED WATERS: A CALL FOR ACTION We, the undersigned marine scientists and conservation biologists, call upon the world's citizens and governments to recognize that the living sea is in trouble and to take decisive action. We must act quickly to stop further severe, irreversible damage to the sea's biological diversity and integrity. Marine ecosystems are home to many phyla that live nowhere else. As vital components of our planet's life support systems, they protect shorelines from flooding, break down wastes, moderate climate and maintain a breathable atmosphere. Marine species provide a livelihood for millions of people, food, medicines, raw materials and recreation for billions, and are intrinsically important. Life in the world's estuaries, coastal waters, enclosed seas and oceans is increasingly threatened by: 1) overexploitation of species, 2) physical alteration of ecosystems, 3) pollution, 4) introduction of alien species, and 5) global atmospheric change. Scientists have documented the extinction of marine species, disappearance of ecosystems and loss of resources worth billions of dollars. Overfishing has eliminated all but a handful of California's white abalones. Swordfish fisheries have collapsed as more boats armed with better technology chase ever fewer fish. Northern right whales have not recovered six decades after their exploitation supposedly ceased. Steller sea lion populations have dwindled as fishing for their food has intensified. Cyanide and dynamite fishing are destroying the world's richest coral reefs. Bottom trawling is scouring continental shelf seabeds from the poles to the tropics. Mangrove forests are vanishing. Logging and farming on hillsides are exposing soils to rains that wash silt into the sea, killing kelps and reef corals. Nutrients from sewage and toxic chemicals from industry are overnourishing and poisoning estuaries, coastal waters and enclosed seas. Millions of seabirds have been oiled, drowned by longlines, and deprived of nesting beaches by development and nest-robbing cats and rats. Alien species introduced intentionally or as stowaways in ships' ballast tanks have become dominant species in marine ecosystems around the world. Reef corals are succumbing to diseases or undergoing mass bleaching in many places. There is no doubt that the sea's biological diversity and integrity are in trouble. To reverse this trend and avert even more widespread harm to marine species and ecosystems, we urge citizens and governments worldwide to take the following five steps: 1. Identify and provide effective protection to all populations of marine species that are significantly depleted or declining, take all measures necessary to allow their recovery, minimize bycatch, end all subsidies that encourage overfishing and ensure that use of marine species is sustainable in perpetuity. 2. Increase the number and effectiveness of marine protected areas so that 20% of Exclusive Economic Zones and the High Seas are protected from threats by the Year 2020. 3. Ameliorate or stop fishing methods that undermine sustainability by harming the habitats of economically valuable marine species and the species they use for food and shelter. 4. Stop physical alteration of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems that harms the sea, minimize pollution discharged at sea or entering the sea from the land, curtail introduction of alien marine species and prevent further atmospheric changes that threaten marine species and ecosystems. 5. Provide sufficient resources to encourage natural and social scientists to undertake marine conservation biology research needed to protect, restore and sustainably use life in the sea. Nothing happening on Earth threatens our security more than the destruction of our living systems. The situation is so serious that leaders and citizens cannot afford to wait even a decade to make major progress toward these goals. To maintain, restore and sustainably use the sea's biological diversity and the essential products and services that it provides, we must act now. **end of statement** A few of the over 400 endorsements gathered include: Jane Lubchenco, Michael Soule, Jim Carlton, Sylvia Earle, Jon Lien, Elliott Norse, Robert Paine, Winston Ponder, Stephen Palumbi, Carl Safina, Paul Dayton, Gary Meffe, John Ogden, Jeff McNeely, Victorin Mallet, Judith and Fred Grassle, George Rabb, Jeff Levinton, Les Watling, Liana and John McManus, Dee Boersma, Les Kaufman, Bruce Robison, Dennis Murphy, Paul Ehrlich, Elizabeth Flint, Julia Parrish, Richard Brusca, Don McAllister, Rod Fujita, Cheryl Ann Butman, Gary Davis, John Terborgh, Ed Bowlby, Joshua Sladek Nowlis, Michelle Paddack, Callum Roberts, Anson Hines, Chris Glass, Monte Hummel, JoAnn Burkholder, Andrew Cohen, Jeremy Jackson, Yuvenaly Zaitsev, Sabine Jessen, Deborah Crouse, Jack Sobel, Robert Spies, Katherine Ralls, Larry Dill, Judith Weis, Nancy Turner, Peter Auster, Michelle Wood, Timothy Werner, Stuart Pimm, Bruce Menge, Marjorie Reaka-Kudla, Bruce Leighty, David Schindler, Jack Williams, Devra Kleiman, Richard Harbison, Shao Kwang-Tsao, Tundi Agardy and many others. From ???@??? Tue Jul 22 22:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: from norm.island.net [199.60.19.4] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wqTsf-0006g1a for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by norm.island.net (8.8.6/8.8.5/island) id SAA20201 for nanoosenet-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:36:39 -0700 Received: from mars.ark.com (mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7]) by norm.island.net (8.8.6/8.8.5/island) with ESMTP id SAA20195; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:36:37 -0700 Received: from [204.50.2.59] (io1p4.ark.com [204.50.2.37]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10847; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:36:27 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:36:27 -0700 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19970717163109.0d570070@alternatives.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: NanooseNet@mail.island.net From: ernie yacub Subject: Re: NN: State-sponsored violence and the Peace Movement Cc: convert@nanaimo.ark.com, info@peacewire.org, ckline@unixg.ubc.ca, shume@island.net, fanbc@envirolink.org Sender: owner-nanoosenet@mail.island.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: NanooseNet@mail.island.net X-UIDL: 46fca54ff3b9f46a4fceea6a8622a353 please note that the globe article does not mention the very important fact that forest action network (fan), the group that has worked for the last three years to protect the central coast forests, was invited by several nuxalk heriditary chiefs. it also neglects to mention that fan members enjoy the support of at least half of the nuxalk people at bella coola. several nuxalk people have been arrested with environmentalists. the bc govt is supporting one political group, the tribal council, thereby exacerbating the divisions and animosities that already fragment the community. it is worth reading the article again with this in mind. ernie yacub At 6:17 PM -0700 7/17/97, Irene Abbey wrote: >When the (BC) government authorizes police to "shoot-to-kill" unarmed >civilians (as they did at Gustafsen Lake), and when they fund groups that >use violence as a tactic against citizens who disagree with government >policies, it is a serious matter! It is not good enough for Premier Clark to >officialy claim he doesn't condone violence while his forest minister and >attorney general send 'signals' - and money! - to people who do. >Would any of the BC peace groups (VOW, NCC, EAR, VPC etc..) be prepared to >work on drafting a joint letter to Premier Clark, with copies to the >news-media, demanding a more 'democratic' approach ? Please post >suggestions or offers to Nanoosnet if so... - Norm Abbey (604)738-7963 >************************************************************************** >News Item: Globe and Mail. Tuesday, July 15, 1997 > >BC funds pro-logging strategy > >The BC government gave $20,000 to a native group recently for a workshop >that drew up plans to confront opponents of clear-cut logging in the >provinces's Central Coast region. Some native leaders have used those plans >to justify a confrontation with environmentalists that turned violent on the >weekend.....A4 > >B.C. funds to natives support logging war > >BY ROBERT MATAS British Columbia Bureau > >VANCOUVER - The B.C. government gave $20,000 to a native group recently for >a workshop that drew up plans to confront environmentalists opposed to >clear-cut logging in the province's Central Coast region. > Some native leaders have now used those plans to justify a >confrontation with environmentalists over the week-end that turned violent. > The government's payment of $20,000 reflects a significant >escalation in the increasingly bitter dispute this summer over logging in >pristine old-growth areas of the rain forest. > Previously, Premier Glen Clark had criticized environmentalists who >came from outside the province and had offered moral support to those who >stand up to the environmental protests. But this is the first indication >that the government is giving money directly in support of confrontations. > Forest Minister David Zirnhelt sent the cheque to the Oweekeno, >Kitasoo, Nuxalk Tribal Council three weeks ago for a two-day workshop at >Bella Coola. The funds also paid for a news conference in Vancouver a few >days later to publicize the strategy devised at the workshop for dealing >with environmentalists. > Ivan Tallio, the tribal council administrator, said the group relied >on provincial funds because the federal Department of Indian Affairs does >not have a budget for those kinds of activities. Federal funds go mostly >for social programs and housing, he said. > The workshop was supposed to be m ostly about forest management >practices and the process of consultation. But Mr. Zirnhelt was aware that >the sessions would also deal with the environmental protests in the woods. > "I am very encouraged by your interest in responding to the >environmental activities in your communities to clarifyu the position of >the First Nations of the Central Coast," he stated in a letter outlining the >government's financial commitment. > Mr. Zirnhelt also had a suggestion for the workshop program. He >wanted to speak to the native leaders on the second day of the workshop. >The native leaders, though, decided to take the kmoney and turn down the >offer to hear from the minister. > At the workshop, the native leaders devised a set of rules that were >to be followed by environmentalists and others when entering aboriginal >land. After confrontations turned violent this weekend, native leaders >pointed to vioation of the rules to justify their activities. > On Sunday, native leaders boarded a ship at Bella Coola that >belonged to local environmentalists and seized a flag with the insignia of >the Nuxalk First Nation. The group burned the flag on the dock before >leaving. > On the previous daY, A GROUP OF ABOUT 30 anti-environmentalists >tried to prevent a Gree4npeace boat from docking at the government wharf at >Bella Coola. A woman and a $2,000 video camera were thrown into the water >and others were pushed about. > Police said yesterday that they were investigating the two incidents >and that charges of public mischief may be laid. > Mr. Tallio said local residents took action over the weekend because >the environmentalists were in violation of the protocol devcised by thge >tribal council at the workshop. > The protocol requires environmentalists and others to request >permission of the tribal council before using native cultural symbols such >as the flag. > Environmentalists and others are also required to seek the approval >of the native leadership before entering aboriginal lands. > Local residents felt that, if the invironmentalists were not willing >to honour the protocol, then they were n ot entitled to use the government >dock, Mr. Tallio said. > Environmentalists are hypocritical by opposing logging but wanting >to use services provided by taxes collected from logging, Mr. Tallio said. > Concerning the provincial backing, Mr. Tallio said the tribal >council has spent $80,000 since 1995 on preparation for discussions with the >governmnet on forest management practices The tribal council did not >request ministry funds for the workshop, but they were pleased to receive >them. [!!!!!!!!!!] > A spokesman for the environmentalists who were attacked said, >however, that Mr. Clark and his ministers were providing "totally >irresponsible leadership". > "It's a government payoff to the local people. It's a sign to the >people that they can go out and attack us," said Gavin Edward of the Forest >Action Network. > Yesterday, Mr. Clark reaffirmed his support for those who stand up >to environmentalists who come from outside the province, "providing that >people do not go overboard." However, he told reporters later that "never >in any way would I condone violence, either by environmentalists or to >environmentalists or to anybody in British Columbia." (With a report from >Craig McInnes in Victoria) > >-30- > >Another description of the events, posted by Ernie Yacub: > > * A mob of anti-environmentalists assaulted at least three people in Bella >Coola on Saturday evening. The assaults took place as the MV Starlet tried >to tie up to the dock. One young woman was assaulted then pushed into the >water, another woman who was filming the violence was assaulted by two men >and her $2000 video-camera smashed then thrown into the water. A second >videographer was pushed to the ground. >* The cook from a local cafe was attacked on the same evening for >professing to 'like trees'. >* At a public meeting at the LoBelCo hall in the Bella Coola valley on the >night of July 9th, an anti-environmentalist openly recommended dynamiting >the MV Starlet, as well as Greenpeace's MV Moby Dick. >* Later on that night, the vehicle of a local environmental activist, >Simon Waters, parked just off the road between the meeting hall and Bella >Coola, had all its windows smashed. >* Numerous death threats have been made against environmentalists. >* On June 23rd, the grave of a young environmentalist who died two years >ago in a hiking accident in the valley was desecrated. This vandalism was >described on the community page of the local paper, the Coast Mountain >News, as a "Totally ugly, heartless act". > >ernie yacub >************************************************************************* > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN >Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net >Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net >World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ >STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From ???@??? Sun Aug 03 13:38:30 1997 To: peter ronald From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: fan bc email address? Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Peter, Do you have the correct address for fan? Thanks, AL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| > ... transport smtp: connect: Connection timed out >|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| > WHERE TO SEE WILDLIFE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND > By Kim Goldberg > >Published by Harbour Publishing, 160 pages, 50 sites, more than >200 colour photos, index, checklists and more! > > DATE: Saturday, August 9, 1997 > TIME: 2:00 p.m. > PLACE: The Bookstore on Bastion Street - Nanaimo > (downtown, across from Coast Bastion Hotel) > >Clean fun, free snacks, cool people... maybe even some wildlife! > >If you're within driving, hiking, paddling, cycling, riding, >spelunking, climbing, hang-gliding, fossicking or snorkeling >range... > >>> BE THERE OR BE UNNATURAL! <<< > >cu! >Kim ^ ^ > 0-0 <--- me with binocs spotting a rarely seen but > | beautiful snowy owl on the Nanaimo estuary > O > > > > > > From ???@??? Wed Aug 06 22:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-59.islandnet.com [198.53.172.59] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wwLI2-0006j1C for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:39:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: grizzly@netidea.com (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth Victoria-- Perry's Ridge Arrests and more X-UIDL: 605bfc348047dd6ee13d282739ab7e1a Hello friends: Today was a sad and beautiful and empowering day on the watershed front. RCMP REMOVE 400 FROM PERRY'S RIDGE ROAD: Almost 400 people attended at the Perry's Ridge protest site this morning. It took almost three hours for the police to convince people to move off the proposed road location (and out of the woods). Many people insisted on being asked individually before they would leave. One woman requested, and received, a hug from the head RCMP officer. Some people required French translation. All moved very slowly. We sang the same water chant that we have been singing up there since the protest began 25 days ago. Most people wore blue paper water drops to remind the police and the world "It's About Water." Spirits were strong. Water is Life. Nine brave humans chose not to obey the injunction and enforcement order and were arrested, including past federal Green Party candidate Jack Ross and provincial Green Party leader Stuart Parker. Two arrestees were removed on stretchers. The arrestees were taken to Nelson where some signed an "undertaking" (basically agreeing to certain "Terms of Release" such as obeying the injunction and keeping the peace) and were released. Others, including Jack Ross, are declining to sign the undertaking. They may be appearing in Nelson Supreme Court tomorrow or Friday. We'll try to let you know via the hotline. WHAT'S NEXT? Individuals may decide to maintain ongoing presence at Perry's Ridge. Road permits are in the pipeline for Climax, Bonanza and Hasty Creeks. Stay in touch through the hotline (1-888-221-5599) or come out to the Village for a meal and an evening circle. Dinner's at 6:00, circle at 7:00. WALK FOR WATER: Two Peace Villagers, Janet Bass and Ka'an Muncaster, are organizing a 700-km Walk for Water. They will be bringing water to Eloise Charet at the Women's Correctional Centre in Burnaby, and delivering a copy of last year's Angus Reid poll, which found overwhelming support for ecosystem-based planning for the Slocan Valley, to the provincial Minister of Forests in Victoria. They will leave the Peace Village Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. and expect to arrive in Victoria in mid-September. People are encouraged to walk with them for any part, or all, of the walk. They are also in need of support along their route (Highway 3). IF YOU CAN HELP with media work, a place to stay (they are self-sufficient with camping gear), a good meal, a hot bath, WHATEVER, please contact David McKinnon at 250-355-2327 ASAP. Thanks. ELOISE "DOLLY" CHARET is still on hunger strike, since July 22. Write her! If you want to visit her you need to write her first, so she can request you be added to her visitor list. Eloise Charet Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women 7900 Fraser Park Drive Burnaby B.C. V5J 5B9 PEACE VILLAGE wants you! but if you can't make it in the flesh we will gratefully accept your donation of food, materials goods or money. Cheques can be made out to P.E.A.C.E. and mailed to J. Vasant, Gr. 8, C-26, RR #1, Winlaw, BC, V0G 2J0. Thank you for your support. From ???@??? Mon Jul 07 23:10:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wkxnZ-0006bpC for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.50.2.35] (io1p2.ark.com [204.50.2.35]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17780; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:20:15 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:20:15 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ark-misc@mars.ark.com, micec@onenw.org, can-alt-newswire@dsuper.net From: ernie yacub Subject: vancouver dumps shell oil (fwd) Cc: Comox-Alberni MP , duncan@reform.ca X-UIDL: 454a4705ce043bfe23eb8202b05aa486 following message comes from sid tan of sierra club and the ogoni solidarity network in vancouver... Hi All. While the numbers are approximate, the City of Vancouver fleet (police, fire, paramedic, etc.) no longer runs on Shell Canada petroleum products. The Greater Vancouver Regional District and other municipalities banded together and awarded a $6,000,000 contract to Chevron Canada. Shell Canada had the last Vancouver contract (worth $3,000,000). After the 1989 Supreme Court of Canada ruling against Vancouver's resolution to exclude Shell Canada from city contracts (during the apartheid years), many city governments were stymied. The City of North Vancouver discussed not buying Shell products and informally instructed it's staff. There was nothing for Shell to challenge. The Ogoni Solidarity Network in Vancouver lobbied long and hard to wean Vancouver and other municipal councils from Shell products. We mark our 36th consecutive weekly Boycott $hell rally on Friday, July 11 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. at Oak Street and 25th Avenue. Let your Vancouver friends know. Take care. anon Sid PS - Hope to get details this week about the contract and how (why?) Chevron was chosen. Is Chevron a better choice? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sierra Club Lower Mainland Group 1672 East 10th Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia V5N 1X5 Telephone: 604-873-8554 Fax: 604-872-0709 sierra@vcn.bc.ca http://www.sierraclub.ca/bc --------------------------------------------------------------------- From ???@??? Sat Aug 09 11:56:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-55.islandnet.com [198.53.175.55] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wxGEX-0006iXC for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:27:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth BC-- Get ready for the solar revolution X-UIDL: 75a1504611a9567250f418fcd7d574d6 ECONEWS No. 63 Serving Vancouver Island's Environmental Community JULY/AUGUST 1997 STAND BY FOR THE SOLAR REVOLUTION - AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE ANTARCTIC Drive a Car, Starve a Whale. Does that make sense to you? It will soon, if the changes happening at the poles of our planet are any indication of what's coming. With the exception of a few who are sponsored by the oil industry, the world's scientists have reached a consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is responsible for the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the rising heat. The planet is heating up faster than anytime in the last 10,000 years. In the Arctic, the Mackenzie region is heating up 3 times faster than Earth as a whole. The hamlet of Tuktoyakut, on the arctic coast, is caught between the melting tundra and the rising sea, using sandbags to keep back the sea. Spring is arriving a week earlier, and the warmer weather and melting permafrost are causing mudslides and landslides throughout the Mackenzie Valley. At the other end of the Earth, in the Antarctic, the climate has warmed by 2.5C over the past 50 years. Wildflowers are blooming where they were never seen before, and 21 colonies of Adelie penguin have become extinct because of the decline of winter sea ice. Algae which grow under the ice are eaten by the krill, which form a substantial part of the penguin's diet. And the whales, too. That's just the start of it. The West Antarctic icesheet is the world's last remaining marine ice-sheet which sits on the ocean floor, rather than floating. 'Should this ice-sheet collapse or float free, as other marine ice-sheets have done, global sea level would rise nearly six metres, which would inundate most of Florida and hundreds of low-lying cities from Jakarta to London.' (Time Magazine, April 14th 1997). This may be precisely what is happening. In the last 3 years, 3 ice shelves have broken off the Antarctic. If the West Antarctic Ice-Sheet collapsed, the world would flood not in 100 years but in a matter of days, taking much of the world's low-lying farm-land with it. Previous concerns about global warming have focussed on the increasing incidence of floods, droughts, hurricanes and other extreme weather events. The world's insurance companies have woken up. During the 1980s, average losses from weather-related disasters were $2 billion a year. In the 1990s, they are $12 billion a year. "Global climatic change is here - it's happening right now. The scientific evidence is in place. It is probably the single most important issue facing the world today." (Kaj Ahlmann, CEO of Employers Re, 4th largest US reinsurance company, April 1996). In response, the world's leaders are dickering about whether a 5% or a 10% reduction in emissions will do. Ross Gelbspan, author of the just-published Climate in Crisis, argues that we must phase out fossil fuel burning entirely in 10 years, and replace it with climate-friendly renewable energy. So roll in the solar revolution. The technology is in place - solar voltaics, solar shingles, wind power, flywheel power storage systems, solar/hydrogen fuel. All that is needed are the policies, and the will to make it happen. Whoever gets there first gets the biggest piece. The Japanese government has just launched the world's biggest-ever initiative to kick-start the markets in solar photovoltaics. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry will administer US $130 million in subsidies aimed at putting solar PV roofs on 70,000 homes and offices by the year 2000. Following this announcement, Sanyo, Canon and Mitsubishi all announced major expansions of their solar PV operations. The new British government has asked Jeremy Leggett, Greenpeace's leading campaigner on climate change, to convene a high-level Solar Task Force to prepare a blueprint for the rapid expansion of Britain's solar industry. In Germany, the government pays solarvoltaic users 11 cents KwH for surplus energy, to allow for hidden subsidies to fossil fuels, and encourage more rapid installation. (The market price for energy is 6 cents per KwH.) The world is moving into action. Looking ahead, there are no technical reasons why whole roads should not be paved with solarvoltaic cells, and become a constant source of energy. So what about Canada ? We are still beholden to the oil industry, and Alberta voters. Even while Chretien is telling the UN Earth Summit that we must have legally binding standards, the new energy minister is reassuring the oil patch that nothing will change. Oh no ? We'll see about that. The thing about the solar revolution that people don't grasp is how liberating it will be. It will bring new jobs, and an economy which no longer pollutes and destroys, with technologies in closer harmony with nature. And a mindset based not on matter, but on light. Guy Dauncey ##################### EcoNews provides this electronic version of the newsletter free of charge even though it costs time and money to produce. You can help by making a donation, whether $5 or $100. Please make cheques out to : EcoNews, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada. Thanks ! ########################################################### Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Updated Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Sun Aug 10 20:58:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: from server.netidea.com [204.191.228.3] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0wxfhW-0006bdC for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:39:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pm110.nl.netidea.com (pm110.nl.netidea.com [204.191.228.110]) by server.netidea.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id OAA13308; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:52:11 -0700 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:52:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199708102152.OAA13308@server.netidea.com> X-Sender: jmerkel@mail.netidea.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: kbarter@netidea.com From: jmerkel@netidea.com (James Merkel) Subject: Slocan Valley info X-UIDL: 10ed4b2219e47a830af886ef55dd3c2f A bit of an update on whats going on with the arrestees and followup from Perry's ridge blockaid. Spoke to Earth who has been fasting on juice and soup since entering prison. His spirits seem good although he has not seen or heard from the others arrested - Jack Ross and River. Call and put pressure on the Prisons and Corky Evans to allow them to see each other. The latest word I have is that River is fasting also and that Jack Ross is considering a 5 day fast. You can write to Earth, RIver and Jack Ross at: Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre 2250 W. Trans Canada Hyway Kamloops B.C. V2C 5M9 Jack would like to be in solidarity with the chain fast beginning Monday Morning. Please all come out to support the first day of the fast. There will be a press conference at noon and it would be great to have lots of folks there. Fasting for Watersheds A Hunger Strike for the forests in solidarity with Eloise Charet, Jack Ross and two forest defenders going by the names Earth and River. Eloise has been held without trial or charges in maximum security Burnaby Women's Correction since July 23 for protesting logging policies in the Slocan Valley. Join us at 310 Ward The Government Building Monday, Aug. 11 at noon and any time thereafter. Fast on water as long as you choose to get the government to listen to the people Bring water, sleeping and simple survival gear. Leave home drugs, alcohol, dogs, and food. "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts" H.D. Thoreau James Merkel Global Living Project GR4 C.17 RR#1 Winlaw B.C. VOG 2JO (250)355-2585 From ???@??? Sun Aug 10 21:08:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-51.islandnet.com [198.53.172.51] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wxlbQ-0006iBC for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:57:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: Howard Breen (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth BC-- NN: World Env. Court by 2000 X-UIDL: 9e231e6fda360fbad20e473f02644c15 Group wants world environment court by 2000 -- June 27, 1997 A proposed international court to rule on cross-boundary environmental disputes is gaining political backing and could be in place by 2000, advocates of the plan said Thursday at the United Nations. "We believe the court will be realized by 2000. Establishment of a court would require consensus which we believe we have among the (U.N.) member states," said Kenneth McCallion from a newly-formed North American group promoting the court. Backers of the proposal, which was first raised in 1988, are circulating draft resolutions calling for the court at this week's United Nations Earth Summit, but they admitted they did not expect action here. "It's a cultural rather than a political difficulty. Governments tend to think of it (the environment) as a national problem rather than a global problem," said Amadeo Postiglione, a judge of Italy's Supreme Court and a major advocate of the new court. "We're not talking about a special court, but a specialized court ... which would aid problems that cannot be resolved on a national basis," Postiglione said. He said the European Union is taking the idea seriously, and he thought the court might fit well with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's idea for a U.N. umbrella organization to oversee environmental issues. McCallion said the Chernobyl nuclear disaster showed the international court system is inadequate to deal with environmental disputes. "Pollution and environmental disasters know no boundaries," he said. Copyright 1997, Reuters, All Rights Reserved From ???@??? Sun May 05 17:27:50 1996 Return-Path: Received: from [198.53.175.11] [198.53.172.48] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0whhf4-0006cIC for ; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:30:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: gdauncey@islandnet.com From: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) Subject: ECONEWS ORGANIC FOOD GUIDE X-UIDL: 14989ffe82421e048ac407d67cd154b0 ECONEWS ORGANIC FOOD A Guide to Sources of Organic Food in the Victoria Area and the Gulf Islands SUMMER 1997 Organic food is food grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Organic food tastes better and is better for you, and the environment, than conventionally grown food. Buying locally grown organic food means that you, the consumer, can see where your food comes from and even meet the people who grow it. In British Columbia, many organic farms have passed regional or provincial inspections to become 'Certified Organic'. Although many farms do not have certification, they may still be growing good organic food. Still, there is a shortage of organic farms in this region. Buying imported organic food is an option but find out where your food is coming from and how it is grown. This list is intended to help you, the consumer, make healthful choices. *Please copy & share with others*. This list is not exhaustive. If I have missed anyone, call me (Lori,598-7897). LOCAL FARMER BOX PROGRAMS - SEASONAL VEGGIES AND FRUITS Kildara Farms 655-3093 (Certified) 11293 Chalet Rd, Sidney. $20 a box. Pickup or delivery to depots around town. ALM Organic Farms, 642-3671.$20 -single box, $25 - double box Pickup Tuesdays after 1 pm. Tina Fraser 658-4921 and Rebecca Jehn 658-8499. $15/box. Pickup at 3 depots around town. Two Wings Farm, 478-3794 4768 William Head Rd, Metchosin $15+$2 for delivery. Mother Earth Gardens, 537-4987, 1306 Beddis Rd, Salt Spring Island $275-small box or $475-large box for 18 weeks. Pickup at the farm. OTHER BOX PROGRAMS -IMPORTED ORGANIC PRODUCE Fresh Piks Organics. 383-7959 $35/box-delivery on Thurs. Variety of mostly California organic fruits veggies. Breads, cheese soy products, juices. Amelita 598-8980. Huge variety of organic fruits & veggies from BC Interior Order minimum of 10lb. Box Share Organics. Susan Tychie 595-6742 Delivery or pick-up on Tuesdays. Call for order list of fruits, vegetables, dried goods and various bulk items. FARMS Elk Lake Farm, 479-7773 700 Linnet Lane (Certified) Chickweed Farm, Jane 475-6630. Box Program FULL. Herbs available. Heritage Farm 479-4769 5271 Old West Saanich Rd, Some seasonal veggies, apples Hillside Farm, 1748 Mount Newton X Rd 652-0650. May-Oct, Sat/Wed 9am-6pm Seasonal veggies & fruits Phil's Farm, 6080 Oldfield Rd, 652-2264. apples, blueberries. Call for details Swallow Hill Farm & Orchard 474-4042. 4910 William Head Rd. Apples in the fall Gleneden Farm, 1212 Landsend Rd 656-1668. Call for orders of rhubarb, rasberries, marionberries, plums, apples Forest Garden Farm, 1818 Prosser Rd 656-2572. Spring-Fall. Sat/Sun. 10-2pm. Herbs, produce, jams, jellies Ladybird Farm 2273 Church Rd, Sooke. 642-4575. Thurs/Fri 2-6pm. Seasonal Veggies. Wildwood Farm, 2339 Kemp Lake Rd. Sooke 881-3704. Gate sales in July Eisenhawer Organic Produce 474-7161 4266 Happy Valley Road (Certified) Call for list of seasonal veggies Costerton Farm, 537-5240, 210 Old Divide Rd, Salt Spring Island. Large selection of dry goods and produce Mother Earth Gardens, 537-4987 1306 Beddis Road, Salt Spring Island Mon, Wed, Fri, 9-5pm Charman Farm, 5194 Pirates Road, Pender Isl. 629-6559. Seasonal Veggies Arbutus Bay Deer Farms. 539-2301. 777 Beechwood Dr, Mayne Island. Deer meat. See Farm Fresh Products Guide for a list of farms (some organic). Available at most farms and Ministry of Agriculture 808 Douglas Street. FARMERS' MARKETS Moss Street Market 361-1747 Sat 10-2pm May-Oct. Moss/Fairfield, Sir James Douglas School James Bay Market 385-0485 Sat 10-3pm May-Oct. Menzies & Superior St Government Street Market 598-2593 Sun 10:30-4:30 June-Sept. Next to Chinatown Cedar Farmers' Market, Sun 10-1 pm May-Oct Cedar Community Jean Compton 722-3167 Peninsula Country Market 652-5094 Sat 9-1pm, June 21-Oct 11 Agriculture Society Grounds Sooke Country Market 642-4717 Sat 10-2pm May-Sept Sooke Elementary School Metchosin Farmers' Market 478-0252 Sun 11-2pm May-Oct. 4450 Happy Valley Rd. Metchosin Municipal Grounds Highlands Market 474-3453 Last Sun of Month 10-2pm May-Sept. Caleb Pike Homestead 1589 Millstream Rd 24 Carrot Country Market 656-4444 Sun 10-2pm Jun-Sept. Sanscha Hall, Beacon Ave Sidney Salt Spring Organic Market. Tuesdays 10am-2 pm. Location TBA. 537-4987 Salt Spring Dog Star Market 653-9939, Sat/Sun 9-6pm May-Sept. Next to the Fulford Inn. Salt Spring Island Market, 537-4448 Sat 9-6pm Apr-Oct. Centennial Park LOCAL RETAIL STORES SELLING ORGANIC FOOD Colwood House of Nutrition 6-310 Goldstream Good Nature Market 109-3995 Quadra Lifestyles Market 180-2950 Douglas Lifestyles Select 9769C-5th St Sidney Nature's Fare 6-1516 Fairfield Seed of Life, 1316 Goverment Sunflower Natural Foods, 7060 West Saanich Road Sidney Natural Foods 2473 Beacon St West Coast Natural Foods, 6716 West Coast Road, Sooke Thrifty Foods Call Customer Service for the store nearest you 544-1234 Amaranth Food for Thought UVIC SUB For hours call 472-4386 Ploughshare Farm Market 7 days/week, 9-7pm Sun to 6pm 4649 W. Saanich Rd Red Barn Market 7 days/week 8-9pm 5550 West Saanich Rd Logical Health Foods 90-1644 Hillside One World Health Foods 250-777 Royal Oak Demitasse, 2164 McNeil Ave For Good Measure 3831 Cadboro Bay ORGANIC NURSERY, SEEDS, CLASSES The Garden Path Organic Nursery offers winter vegetable bedding plants Aug 9 &10 from 2069 Kings Rd 10-5pm. Organic Gardening Workshop Jan/Feb 1998.Call Carolyn Herriot 592-4472 Seeds of Victoria Organic Seeds at Dig This, 45 Bastion Square ALM Organic Seeds, at Moss St Market OTHER ORGANIZATIONS LifeCycles, 2175 Dowler Pl. 383-5800. Sharing Backyard Garden Project, Growing Schools Project and more! Linking Land and Future Farmers (LLAFF) PO Box 807, Sooke V0S 1N0 642-3671. Matching future farmers with landowners with available land South Island Organic Producers Assoc. (SIOPA) Tina Fraser 658-4921 Island Organic Producers Association, (IOPA) David Wiebe 748-8089 COMMUNITY ALLOTMENT GARDENS Allotment gardens offer plots for people to grow their own food Gordon Head Allotment Gardens Assoc 477-5764 Gordon Head Rd/ Feltham. Wait list. Capital City Allotment Gardens 641 Kent Rd 479-0530. Wait list. James Bay Allotment Garden Assoc Simcoe & Montreal, 386-9596. Wait list. Fernwood Allotment Gardens 384-7441 Fernwood Community Assoc. Wait list. Oak Bay Allotment Gardens, Oak Bay Parks, 592-7275. Wait list. UVIC Community Allotment Gardens Vickey Brown 592-9962 RESTAURANTS These restaurants are known to use organic produce whenever they can. Café Brio, 944 Fort Street . 383-0085 Cassis 253 Cook Street 384-1932 Dunsmuir Ldge 1515 McTavish 656-3166 Green Cuisine Vegetarian Restaurant 5-560 Johnson Street 385-1809 Herald Street Café, 546 Herald 381-1441 Marina Restaurant, 1327 Beach 598-555 Olive Olio's, 3840 Cadboro Bay 477-6618 Rebar, 50 Bastion Square 361-9923 Vinsanto, 620 Trounce Alley 480-5560 Sooke Harbour House 1528 Whiffen Spit 642-3421 Compiled by Lori Kmech, LLAFF (250) 598-789. Guy Dauncey, 2069 Kings Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8R 2P6, Canada Tel/Fax (250) 592-4473 Author of 'After the Crash : The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy' (Greenprint, UK, 3rd Updated Edition 1996) Victoria Car Share Co-operative Editor, EcoNews http://www.islandnet.com/~gdauncey/econews/ From ???@??? Fri Aug 15 18:36:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-41.islandnet.com [198.53.175.41] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wzFFH-0006nJC for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:48:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Earth Canada-- Genetically engineered plants produce plastic X-UIDL: 2ff19de2664b1f8c52f22cc087df9610 Wed 13 Aug 1997 - The Vancouver Sun - News - B1 / Front ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Genetically engineered plants produce plastic: If they live up to their billing, the plants could give farmers a much-needed financial boost. By: Margaret Munro, Sun Science Reporter Illustration: Photo: DAVID TAYLOR: Team has created a ``transgenic'' rapeseed that produces large amounts of oil. ``In the lab we're seeing 10-per-cent to 50-per-cent increases in seed oil content,'' he says. Chris Somerville's leafy creations give a whole new meaning to plastic plants. His are very much alive. They look normal, but have been genetically engineered to produce plastic when given excess nutrients, much the same way people produce fat. ``We accumulate fat when we overeat, these plants accumulate plastic,'' says the Canadian-born plant geneticist who was in Vancouver recently wowing his colleagues with plants designed to put a lot more than food on the table. Somerville's plants, and others sprouting in research labs around the world, are designed to produce bottles and disposable razors, car parts and cellophane wrappers. If they live up to their billing, the plants could give farmers a much-needed financial boost. According to some proponents, the new plants could even give fossil fuels a run for their money. Plant oils and extracts could one day be more popular and economical for many industrial applications than the petroleum now feeding the world's petrochemical and fuel sector, delegates to this month's meeting of the American and Canadian plant physiologists societies in Vancouver were told. Somerville's plastic-producing plants are such a potential money-maker that multinational chemical producer, Monsanto Company, is investing millions of dollars to get them sprouting on farmers' fields within a few years. Somerville engineered the plastic-producing plants by giving them three genes from bacteria, which naturally store excess sugar in plastic molecules. The genes, once inserted properly into the plants' genetic machinery, trigger production of long-chained plastic molecules in tissues throughout the plants. Plastic is normally made by linking molecules from petroleum products together in petrochemical factories. The bonds are so strong, the plastic doesn't disintegrate. Somerville's plants operate on much the same principle, except they use a natural process to fuse the organic molecules together into plastic molecules. ``Each granule contains about 1,000 chains, each with 8,000 beads of plastic in it,'' says Somerville, referring to the thousands of microscopic granules in leaves, roots and shoots of the altered plants. ``They look like baskets of eggs.'' ``We have plants that are 14 per cent plastic by weight,'' says Somerville, who grew up in Canada and worked at the University of Alberta before being lured to the U.S. 20 years ago by better research opportunities. He now heads the Carnegie Institution's department of plant biology in Stanford, Calif.. The first plastic-producing plant Somerville's team engineered was a common mustard weed called arabidopsis. Monsanto has since licensed his techniques and engineered the plastic-generating genes into canola and soybeans. The ``natural''' plastic they produce is biodegradable, in that it's readily broken down by bacteria, which eventually reduce the plastic molecules to carbon dioxide and water. ``You can throw it in your backyard and it disappears before your eyes,'' says Somerville. A plastic bag will disappear within six weeks and shampoo bottles are 90 per cent gone in six months, he says. Somerville says the plastic will not disintegrate on the bathroom shelf, or leach into food stored in the containers. But they will disintegrate in landfills because several types of common soil bacteria excrete enzymes that chew up the plastic. As evidence, he points to the containers, already in use in Japan, made of similar biodegradable plastic extracted from bacteria. Bacterial plastic is, however, prohibitively costly to produce, Somerville said. Monsanto is banking on the idea that plants will produce it at lower cost. It hopes to use the same techniques and equipment already used to extract oils from canola and soybeans to extract the plastics from the transgenic plants. Monsanto also has to ensure the plastic the plants produce is flexible enough to meet the demand for inexpensive, biodegradable containers and wrappers. ``The pure plastic crystals are fragile,'' says Somerville, who is busy borrowing interesting genes from other species and stitching them into common agricultural crops like soybeans, corn or canola. ``There are more than 250,000 species of higher plants and we only use less than 100 species.'' says Somerville. He is engineering a new breed of canola to generate the highly durable plastic molecules and nylons that might be used in paint or car parts. He's also hunting for enzymes capable of turning old tires into something useful. ``There are mountains of rubber out there,'' he says. David Taylor of the National Research Council of Canada's Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon is also engineering plants with big potential. His team has created a ``transgenic'' rapeseed that produces extraordinary amounts of oil. ``In the lab we're seeing 10-per-cent to 50-per-cent increases in seed oil content,'' said Taylor, whose team accidentally created the super-oil producer when it inserted a yeast gene into rapeseed. ``The serendipity is that it increased the oil production in ways we never expected,'' he said. They'd been trying to engineer a rapeseed that would produce longer oil molecules for industrial uses, not drive the plants' oil production to unheard-of levels. It's not clear how the yeast gene boosts oil production, but Taylor says it appears to relate to the way the yeast gene is regulated. Taylor cautions that the work is experimental, though on-going work in the greenhouse and field is promising. ``Even if we only see two-, three- or four-per-cent increases in yield I'll be ecstatic,'' says Taylor, noting that plant breeders have only been able to increase oil yield in rapeseed and canola by a few per cent over several decades of traditional breeding. Taylor says he believes the yeast gene will be able to boost oil production in all kinds of crops - corn, sunflower, soybeans, cotton, and canola. All of which would be a boon for farmers, who stand to earn $10 million for each one-per- cent increase in their crop's oil production. Several companies have approached the Saskatoon researchers about exploiting their discovery, which has been detailed in the science journals. CanAmerco and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool are helping finance field trials of Taylor's revved-up rapeseed this summer. He expects it will be at least three years before the trials are complete. ``Then if it works out, it's on to commercialization with the best lines,'' says Taylor. While there are plenty of critics of genetic engineering, Taylor and Somerville are confident their transgenic plants can be safely used. Somerville says the main problem he can envision is higher food prices if farmers start putting more land into non-food crops. While consumers might howl, he says farmers would be able to command a better dollar at the farm gate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Box 8307 Victoria BC V8W 3R9 CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Fri Aug 15 22:53:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-17.islandnet.com [198.53.175.17] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0wzbkM-0006jEC for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:49:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Earth Canada-- Move to fossil fuels from nukes will make smog X-UIDL: f0c122090636135915eefba9be7f0650 Fri 15 Aug 1997 - The Ottawa Citizen - News - A1 / Front [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Hydro's switch will leave Ontario short of breath: Move to fossil fuels from nuclear reactors will make smog soup, environmentalists say By: Andrew Duffy Next summer promises to be a difficult one for Ontario residents who suffer from respiratory problems as coal-fired generating stations make up for the province's lost nuclear power. Ontario Hydro, forced to close seven nuclear reactors because of management and safety concerns, has announced it will burn more oil and coal to replace the forgone power. It will also buy power during peak periods from U.S. generating stations, many of which spew pollutants into southern Ontario. The fossil-fuel plants are a major source of greenhouse gases and soot, which react with sunlight to form ozone, a key element in the chemical soup known as smog. Smog plagues most southern Ontario cities and is blamed for 1,800 premature deaths each year. It can leave asthma and emphysema sufferers gasping for breath. ``It's going to be bad. We can expect to see a lot more smog in urban areas than we've seen for many years,'' said Kevin Jardine, a climate change campaigner with Greenpeace. To make up for lost nuclear capacity over the next three years, Ontario Hydro is increasing its production of electricity from oil and coal by 60 per cent. Coal is among the world's dirtiest energy sources, producing emissions that contribute to acid rain, global warming and smog. Mr. Jardine estimated the three aging generating stations -- Lambton, Nanticoke and Lennox -- will produce as much pollution as six million cars. Five million cars are now registered in Ontario; each generates about four tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Hydro's carbon dioxide emissions, Mr. Jardine said, are expected to skyrocket to 45 million tonnes from the 1995 level of 22 million tonnes. Other environmentalists predict the utility's carbon dioxide emissions will rise to about 30 million tonnes. Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas in the Earth's atmosphere. Greenhouse gases retain heat and are slowly warming the Earth's surface, a development that threatens to create increasingly violent weather patterns, droughts, floods and rising seas. Hydro had committed itself to reducing its carbon dioxide emission levels to 1990 levels by the year 2000, but that voluntary goal is now impossible to meet. Hydro spokesman Angelo Castellan said the utility has not yet determined how its carbon dioxide emission levels will be affected. But Ontario residents, he maintained, should not notice a major difference in air quality next year. ``There should be no appreciable environmental impacts as a result of this increased burn we're doing for three years,'' he said. All three plants have state-of-the-art equipment to remove soot from their emissions. But the Lennox and Nanticoke plants do not have the scrubbers required to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions. Sulphur dioxide is a major contributor to acid rain. Mr. Castellan said Ontario Hydro plans to use low-sulphur fuel and to introduce natural gas, a cleaner fuel. He said the emission levels will be much better than those witnessed in the 1980s. ``We were putting out significantly more pollution in the '80s before the Darlington nuclear station came on line,'' he said. Darlington's four nuclear reactors started in 1993. Louise Comeau, a climate change expert with the Sierra Club of Canada, agrees that Ontario Hydro will release less pollution than it did in the 1980s. But that's not saying very much, she said, because in the 1980s Hydro's environmental record was terrible. After the coal-burning plants increase their operations, nearby Ontario cities will be hard hit by the ensuing smog-creating emissions, she said. ``We're going to get it coming and going,'' she said. ``We're going to get more pollutants from the increased domestic production and the more electricity we buy from the Ohio Valley, the more smog will blow our way from coal-burning plants in the U.S.'' Ontario Hydro announced Wednesday it was temporarily closing seven of the province's 19 operating reactors after a scathing report pointed to deep-seated problems in the utility's nuclear division. It found the reactors were operating at a ``minimally acceptable'' standard and blamed the problem on the closed, cult-like management structure of Hydro's nuclear unit. The corporate culture allowed workers to cut corners, but not to raise objections about plant operations, the report said. Hydro is spending up to $8 billion over the next three years to bring the plants up to an acceptable performance standard and to buy replacement power. Environmentalists said yesterday the government should use this opportunity to promote energy conservation and alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar power. ``The Ontario government doesn't have to let Ontario Hydro go ahead with simply replacing one form of dangerous dirty power with another form of dangerous dirty power,'' Mr. Jardine said. He wants the province to encourage private companies to use ``co-generation,'' a process that produces heat and electricity at the same time, rather than separately. Ken Ogilvie, of Pollution Probe, said, ``The debate should not be coal versus nuclear. The debate should be clean energy versus dirty energy.'' ``All of that discussion about firing up the coal generators and refurbishing the nuclear plants is exactly the wrong response to the issue,'' he said. ``We should let the private sector invest in cleaner, newer technologies.'' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Box 8307 Victoria BC V8W 3R9 CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Sun Aug 17 09:57:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-81.islandnet.com [198.53.175.81] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0x08dF-0006azC for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:56:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Peace/Earth Canada-- Sunday on Cross Country Check Up X-UIDL: e0f04e5853871977054bf2fe09014402 Cross-Country Check Up at 4 pm today is on the issue of "What is the future of nuclear energy for Canada?" Please tune in and call! Their number is either 800-363-1362 or 800-363-1632. Al Rycroft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Box 8307 Victoria BC V8W 3R9 CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Mon Aug 18 11:12:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mail.storm.ca [207.245.225.6] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0x0KOu-0006cLC for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 22:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tarasfed (storm01p35.storm.ca [207.245.225.85]) by mail.storm.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id BAA27020 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 01:30:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <12D106C8.1E2F@storm.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1980 14:17:28 -0500 From: Taras Fedoriuk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Rycroft Subject: Reactor Closing! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 0923ed437b50051b6f082bb35712a89b Well don't know if you know yet, but several reactors in Ontario are going to be closed down as a result of deteriated reactors. The director of Hydro Canada did not tell the board that the reactors were very dangerous and that there has been a chance of meltdown for several years. The director has stepped down. He was not charged however. The cost for repairs are too high so they will be closed down. It would seem there is a very short life expectancy for Nuclear plants. Short enought that they nolonger seem feasible as an energy option. At leasat this is what is concluded by the public right now. We will have to see what the Tories do now in Ontario. Looks like an energy crisis can evolve. Taras From ???@??? Wed May 01 22:09:17 1996 To: Taras Fedoriuk From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Re: Reactor Closing! Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: >Well don't know if you know yet, but several reactors in Ontario are >going to be closed down as a result of deteriated reactors. The director >of Hydro Canada did not tell the board that the reactors were very >dangerous and that there has been a chance of meltdown for several >years. The director has stepped down. He was not charged however. The >cost for repairs are too high so they will be closed down. It would seem >there is a very short life expectancy for Nuclear plants. Short enought >that they nolonger seem feasible as an energy option. At leasat this is >what is concluded by the public right now. We will have to see what the >Tories do now in Ontario. Looks like an energy crisis can evolve. My assessment precisely. They will not be re-opened, Ontario Hydro will flirt with other dirty forms of energy, and at the end of the day, the conservative government will learn how to show others to CONSERVE energy! Great news. (I had heard about it.) Regards, AL From ???@??? Wed Aug 20 15:11:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-48.islandnet.com [198.53.172.48] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0x13gH-0006d3C for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:51:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth Victoria-- prison fast...eloise 29...jack 13 X-UIDL: ea4a2c8ecdfd017f80678d6e3fd9c7ca Today in Nelson at noon a number of us walked about singing and signing to signify our solidarity with Eloise and Jack who remain in prison in the fight to save the water and trees in the Slocan Valley. People on the street were very friendly and many seemed concerned. Twenty nine days Eloise has been locked away. No solid food. Last week Ann Barcley of SVEAPRS opined that Eloises's imprisonment and her fast were like a stay at a health spa at public expense. This was aired on CBC and I don't know if it was ever refuted. I did call in myself to say that Ann B might have rather draconian views on logging and other things given her contempt for Eloise's civil rights but I don't know if it aired. The fact that such spleen as Barclay's gets radiotime without balancing has been the case in this summer's struggle. If Ann speaks, let Eloise speak. The marginalization of the green movement by the provincial media is a big part of the story. What those SVEAPRS don't say is that equal access to public resources really means is that they get to cut all the trees down eventually. We equally access until they possess. Our grandchildren are not in this equation. Jack Ross' words from prison are clear and inspiring. His example is eliciting support from others imprisoned with him. As we outside are fortunate to know him, those inside are fortunate to have him in their midst at this time in his life. Jack has rejected materialism in the name of the health and social fabric of the entire community. He is 76 years old. Two young women among those who marched for Eloise and Jack today referred to him respectfully as "our elder" when speaking to people on Baker. As a man of fifty I felt glad to have someone around to emulate. How can we get our fellow waterdrinkers to understand the importance of what Jack and Eloise are doing? Even if you can't answer this, don't stop working. Green question for the day. How much better of would Ont. be today if policy makers had listened to environmentalists in the sixties and not built nuclear reactors for electricity there? How many permanent jobs in waste containment have been created there. Ontario will become an oncologist's dream but for anyone else it's a nightmare. Political question of the day. Is it tolerable in a free society that citizens can be held captive in prison, apparently indefinitely, without bail, their rights completely removed, even though they have been convicted of no crime? If the answer is no, then who do we greens know that can do something about it? Tomorrow will be Eloise's thirtieth day and Jack's fourteenth in prison. ehamilton -Aug. 19 From ???@??? Wed Aug 20 15:11:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-48.islandnet.com [198.53.172.48] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0x13hq-0006bEC for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:53:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Earth Canada-- Taxpayers on hook for Hydro mess X-UIDL: 26d676d4af76664cf790f8bf589d3cf3 Tue 19 Aug 1997 - The Ottawa Citizen - News - A1 / Front ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ Infomart Home Page | Headlines ] Taxpayers on hook for Hydro mess: Reactor shutdowns make shambles of plan to pay $15B cleanup bill By: Tom Spears Just last year, Allan Kupcis, president of Ontario Hydro, sat in an Ottawa hotel room describing how the utility would cover the $15-billion cost of retiring its nuclear stations and radioactive waste. It would do that, he assured reporters, even though the $2 billion collected for that purpose had all been spent on other things. Today Mr. Kupcis is gone -- he resigned suddenly last week in Hydro's nuclear fiasco --and so is his plan. Meanwhile, an all-party legislative committee with the power to subpoena witnesses will be formed to look into the ``scandalous behaviour'' at Hydro that has thrown the utility into a tailspin. Ontario Energy Minister Norm Sterling said yesterday that last week's report on Hydro by U.S. nuclear experts was so disturbing that the public must know how it fell from grace and where it is going from here. The damning report, which cited serious mismanagement and safety concerns, was only hours old when it was announced that Mr. Kupcis had resigned and seven nuclear reactors were to be closed indefinitely. Some of the reactors face closing 20 years ahead of schedule. But there's not a single penny in the bank to pay for the decommissioning (cleaning up radioactivity at plant sites) or permanent disposal of highly radioactive used uranium fuel. And that means taxpayers are on the hook for a $15-billion debt, says Hydro's biggest critic, Norm Rubin of Energy Probe, an independent group in Toronto that has argued for years Hydro's reactors would not last their allotted 40 years. As Mr. Kupcis explained in last year's interview, the plan was to set aside money earned by the nuclear stations to pay for their eventual decommissioning. Nuclear plants were supposed to last 40 years, by Ontario Hydro's estimates. The two stations recently picked for shutdowns (Pickering station A and Bruce station A) had started operations between the mid-1970s and early 1980s; they had, on average, half their working lives left, with plenty of earning power. Now the earning power is gone. But the cost of cleaning up a plant that has run for 20 years is no different from the cost of cleaning up one that ran for 40 years. Each is a big pile of concrete and steel with radioactive components at the centre. ``That's a totally unfunded liability,'' says Mr. Rubin. ``Everyone's talking about (Hydro's) $32- or $33-billion debt, and nobody's talking about this other $15 billion'' in cleanup costs, he said yesterday. ``The situation has taken a dramatic turn for the urgently worse. ``The earning power of the nuclear units and their ability to set aside money for the job has just dropped by a bunch, and the cost of decommissioning and waste disposal don't drop proportionately.'' ``Obviously we have to factor all that (reactor closings) in the financial plan,'' Hydro spokesman Terry Young said yesterday. Last week's announcement means that eight of Hydro's 19 reactors will be out of action. (One reactor at Bruce A was already down.) Hydro says the shutdowns will allow for an intensive retraining program that will bring its operations up to par. As much as $8 billion will be spent on retraining, capital costs and generating replacement power at fossil-fuel stations. That has nothing to do with the $15 billion it will cost, sooner or later, to retire the nuclear stations. The $2 billion collected so far for decommissioning came from a surcharge on electrical bills in Ontario in recent years, at a rate of one-tenth of a cent for every kilowatt hour a customer uses. It's possible that amount could be raised to cover the earlier closings of some reactors, he said. If that doesn't raise enough cash, the taxpayers are stuck. The Ontario government guarantees all of Hydro's debts. Mr. Kupcis confirmed last year that even the $2 billion collected for these costs had been spent to retire Hydro's earlier debts -- money it borrowed in large part to build nuclear stations, especially the $14-billion Darlington station. Mr. Kupcis argued there was plenty of time to raise more money in the future by selling electricity from the nuclear plants. Those plants currently supply about two-thirds of Ontario's electricity. He said Hydro would sell bonds to cover future cleanup costs if it hadn't enough cash on hand. In the meantime, the $2 billion remains on Hydro's books as a provision for cleanup costs. There's no provision for the remaining $13 billion. ``They set aside money on the basis that everything was going according to plan,'' said Mr. Rubin. He says Hydro should have been saving more in the early years of the reactors in case they didn't last as long as the theory said they should. ``They're not talking about waste. How can they slough off $13 billion?'' asked Normand de la Chevrotiere, a Kitchener resident whose summer cottage is just outside the Bruce nuclear site. Mr. de la Chevrotiere is also a critic of Hydro's finances, and has been fighting Hydro plans to expand waste storage at the Bruce. He has been exchanging letters with Canada's auditor general, Denis Desautels, arguing that Hydro should be forced to set more money aside for future cleanups. ``If they're serious about their commitment (to future cleanup of radioactivity), show me the money,'' Mr. de la Chevrotiere said. And he said Hydro is likely to have trouble selling billions of dollars worth of bonds for radioactive cleanup. ``If you're borrowing for a business that's going to generate revenue, that's one thing,'' he said. ``When you're borrowing to sink waste in the ground and get nothing back, I think lenders would be more reluctant to lend.'' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Box 8307 Victoria BC V8W 3R9 CANADA (250) 592-8307 Alan Rycroft (fax available) (250) 595-7955 Kealey Pringle Email -- emerald@IslandNet.com Web site -- http://www.IslandNet.com/~emerald From ???@??? Thu Sep 04 21:32:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-25.islandnet.com [198.53.172.25] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0x6HNe-0006bhC for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 08:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970903082828.67ffdd82@mail.islandnet.com> X-Sender: impulse@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 08:28:28 To: impulse@islandnet.com From: impulse@islandnet.com Subject: Hold Fast for Water Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: 6e492091dbd35cae4596a6ea3083b0d7 PLEASE CIRCULATE THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITION 170 Nicola St., Kamloops, B.C. V2C 2P1 Ph.(250) 828-1984 fax (250)372-0660 For Immediate Release -- 3 September 1997 "HOLD FAST FOR WATER" BEGINS IN KAMLOOPS & ACROSS BC Day 43 of Hunger Strike In Support Of The Slocan Valley Inspired by the passionate, peaceful and principled protests of Eloise Dolly Charet and Jack Ross, the Thompson Watershed Coalition is asking British Columbians to participate in the "HOLD FAST FOR WATER" to protect community watersheds in the Slocan Valley. Charet is in Day 43 of her hunger strike in a Burnaby prison. She has been fasting since her arrest at the News Denver Flats logging blockade on July 22. The 76-year old Ross, arrested at the Perry's Ridge blockade two weeks later, will begin fasting again today for the remainder of his incarceration. Charet and Ross are being held because they have refused to sign a court undertaking promising not to interfere with the logging now going on in the community watersheds of the Slocan Valley. In solidarity, Ruth Madsen of the Thompson Watershed Coalition will also fast for pure water until the case of the 20 Slocan watershed protectors is heard in Nelson on September 15,1997. "We are asking people to pledge a minimum of a 24 hour fast between today and September 15, as a show of support for all the people of the Slocan who are trying to protect a sustainable watershed plan," explained Madsen. An alternative forest management plan endorsed by 79% of residents and the majority of the Valley's municipal councils has been rejected by the NDP government. "After fifteen years of participation in public processes and presenting a viable alternative, we are still facing the clearcutting of our drinking watersheds. How can that be?" People wishing to fast in support of Charet, Ross and the Slocan Valley should fax their pledge to (250) 372-0660, include their name, town and the number of hours/days they will fast. "We are hoping to have 1,000 names before September 15," said Madsen. Everyone is also asked to send mail, fax or e-mail to Glen Clark, Corky Evans, Dave Zirnhelt and your local MLA. - 30 - CONTACT PERSON Ruth Madsen, Thompson Watershed Coalition (250) 828-1984 The following words inspired the "Hold Fast For Water Campaign" announced today, Statement of Jack Ross on August 15, 1997 "I am not on a hunger strike. I am on a fast for pure water. Every drink of water is a joy, every breath a blessing. My heart beats, tells me of God's love. "Wine in communion is the blood of Christ, Water is the lifeblood of Mother Earth. Fasting is giving me self awareness. It makes me feel good. It reminds me of the Gift of food. When I am fasting I take deeper breaths, and it feels very powerful. "Fasting is communicative, because of the simple fact of it's being done. Fasting is community. I think very often of the people fasting at the same time. They enter my prayers. "And I think of all the others. ...Those I know and those I don't.... who support the struggle for pure water in other ways. I am grateful to them. "There are four dandelions in the exercise yard. And lots of crickets. They jump in over the high walls. And they can't get out. Like us." Jack Ross Statement of Eloise Charet, August 22,1997 "One month without food and still standing strong. I have no regrets, no sense of guilt for what I did. I love my family, my community and Mother Earth and this alone is my nourishment. "These are the last days of our precious resources, our healthy way of life, and if the people do not wake up now it will be too late to speak of any future. "Our watershed will provide only 19 days of work to Slocan Forest Products. Is it worth hundreds of families losing their clean source of water? "No matter what they say on paper, no matter how many promises of jobs created, our water will never be the same, it will never come back, for ever and ever. Trees hold the water, trees mean water; we cannot log in watersheds. "I ask my premier and PM: Are you a government of corporations or of the earth and its people? I am begging them to protect all our watersheds immediately, stop clearcutting right now and revise their logging policy of exploitation towards one of sustainability. "Let us leave a living legacy, not a dead one." Love, hope and peace, Eloise Dolly Charet ----- Peter Ronald imPulse Communications / vox: 250.361-3621 impulse@islandnet.com / fax: 250.361-3682 From ???@??? Tue Sep 02 22:32:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: from norm.island.net [199.60.19.4] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0x5aSS-0006cua for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by norm.island.net (8.8.6/8.8.5/island) id KAA24656 for nanoosenet-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:39:55 -0700 Received: from HBreen.island.net (dyn57.island.net [204.239.42.67]) by norm.island.net (8.8.6/8.8.5/island) with SMTP id KAA24645 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:39:52 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:39:52 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970901104046.42e7b52a@mail.island.net> X-Sender: HBreen@mail.island.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: nanoosenet@island.net From: Howard Breen Subject: Re: NN: Toxic smell X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by norm.island.net id KAA24652 Sender: owner-nanoosenet@mail.island.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: NanooseNet@mail.island.net X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by norm.island.net id KAA24656 X-UIDL: e3c6f7e283b658d5447e9c1eec332189 There is a die-off now occurring of a major red tide up and down the Strait...might be related. Howard At 03:42 AM 9/1/97 -0700, you wrote: >It is 3:40 am. There is a toxic smell in the air. Smells sort of like >a herbicide. There are two large lit up ships in the Strait. Anyone >know what is going on? >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Roger Lagassé email: roger_lagasse@sunshine.net >Jeunes Écrivains du Canada / Young Writers of Canada >http://www.schoolnet.ca/vp/jec/ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN >Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net >Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net >World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ >STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NANOOSE CONVERSION CAMPAIGN Submissions: NanooseNet@mail.island.net Subscriptions: NanooseNet-Request@mail.island.net World-Wide Web: http://nanaimo.ark.com/~convert/ STOP NUCLEAR SUBMARINE WEAPONS TESTS IN GEORGIA STRAIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From ???@??? Wed Aug 20 17:44:18 1997 To: gdauncey@islandnet.com (Guy Dauncey) From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Re: Enjoying your book, and... Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: >Give me the details when ou're reay,. and I'll put them in EcoNews ! >Guy Will be delighted to do so. Should be announced publically in the next couple of weeks. Cheers, AL From ???@??? Sat Sep 06 22:33:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-11.islandnet.com [198.53.175.11] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0x70EE-0006c1C for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 08:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970905082127.4da70018@mail.islandnet.com> X-Sender: impulse@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 08:21:27 To: impulse@islandnet.com From: impulse@islandnet.com Subject: Phone Action September 5 for the Slocan! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-UIDL: 61b8c3bb6aa81335875a4fa5f1a02663 WATERSHED PROTECTION UPDATE FRIENDS OF THE SLOCAN VALLEY - VICTORIA Tel: 250-361-3621 Fax: 250-361-3682 ACTION ALERT Tell the Minister! Telephone action for Friday September 5 Call Forest Minister David Zirnhelt’s office in Victoria at: 250-387-6240, or call him thru Enquiry BC at 1-800-663-7867 (toll free). Leave a message making the following points: · Express your support for the prisoners and the arrestees; · Request that they stop logging in Slocan Valley watersheds; · Ask that Ministry of Forests adopt a policy of negotiation prior to securing an enforcement order for an injunction. Hold Fast For Water! Celebrate precious H2O for 24hrs or more Join Eloise Charet and Jack Ross fasting from now until the beginning of the court proceedings in Nelson on the 15th. Eloise has now been on her hunger strike for 45 days. This is Jack’s second fast since his arrest. Pledge to spend a day or more fasting for pure water. Fax your name, town and fast duration to the Thompson Watershed Coalition in Kamloops at 250-372-0660 (Tel: 250-828-1984) Walk For Water: Janet & Ka’an Arrive in Mission Today Janet Braithwaite and Ka’an Muncaster have walked almost 600 km from the Slocan Valley to deliver water to Eloise in prison. They have been walking for 28 days and are now near Mission travelling Hwy. 7. Join them for a few kilometres. Contact: 250-361-3621 The Slocan Valley Needs You NOW! Get Involved! Contact: Friends of Slocan Valley - Victoria 250-361-3621 Friends of Slocan Valley - Vancouver 604-874-8359 Valhalla Wilderness Society - New Denver 250-358-2333 Peace Village Hotline - Perry’s Ridge 888-221-5599 ----- Peter Ronald imPulse Communications / vox: 250.361-3621 impulse@islandnet.com / fax: 250.361-3682 From ???@??? Mon Sep 15 22:04:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: from everest.netidea.com [204.191.228.4] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0xAg8o-0006cqC for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.191.228.123] (pm13.nl.netidea.com [204.191.228.13]) by everest.netidea.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18379 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:45:51 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:45:51 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@islandnet.com From: Stuart Hertzog Subject: Remove from list X-UIDL: b6bef0599546d03a1eea0a17cf28a1bd Al and Kelly, Hope everything is OK with you and the childs. I'm planning a trip down south soon, so please can you take me off any mailing lists you have me on? I may be checking my mail remotely and don't want a lot of messages cluttering it. I'll let you know when I want back on your lists. Thanks, Regards, Stuart ========================================================================= Stuart Hertzog | stuart@direct.ca | Writer, Editor and Publication Designer Internet Publishing and Training ----------------------------------------- 508 Latimer Street | Telephone: Nelson, B.C., V1L 4T9, Canada | (250) 354-1098 (voice and fax) ========================================================================= From ???@??? Mon Sep 15 22:03:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-3.islandnet.com [198.53.175.3] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0xAVVs-0006fsC for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970915002128.33bf798c@mail.islandnet.com> X-Sender: impulse@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:21:28 To: impulse@islandnet.com From: impulse@islandnet.com Subject: Premier & Cabinet to be Tried for Crimes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: f2f7ce8a6c57ef50d64243a36b9fc38b Friends of the Slocan Valley - VICTORIA Tel: 250-361-3621 Fax: 250-361-3682 PRESS RELEASE September 15, 1997 Contact: Peter Ronald Cel phone (on site): 604-220-7701 PREMIER & CABINET TO BE TRIED FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE FOREST Slocan Valley Rally Marks Day 55 of Hunger Strike, Day 1 of Trials What: Slocan Valley Rally and Trial of NDP Cabinet & SFP Where: Provincial Courthouse Burdett & Blanchard, Victoria When: 12:00 noon Twenty-one people will appear in the Provincial Courthouse this morning in Nelson for defying an injunction against blockading road building and logging in the community watersheds of the Slocan Valley earlier this summer. Eloise Charet, mother of five, arrested July 22nd for blocking logging crews from entering New Denver Flats--the source of her family's drinking water--is today in day 55 of her hunger strike. She will appear along with other eminent Slocan community members charged with contempt of court. To mark this sad day, a trial will be held at noon on the steps of Victoria's Provincial Courthouse, at the corner of Burdett and Blanchard Streets, where provincial cabinet members and the CEO of Slocan Forest Products will be called to account for their complicity in the deterioration of water and soil quality and the destruction of forest ecosystems. Janet Bassingthwaighte and Ka'an Muncaster, who walked 700 kilometres from the Slocan Valley to the Pacific Coast, will also address the rally. They will lead a procession from the courthouse to the office of the Premier with a message carried with them all those weeks travelling across this province. New Denver Flats & Perry's Ridge are currently being roaded in preparation for logging. Road work is scheduled to begin on September 16 at Bonanza Creek, near Hills. This is another critical community watershed that is sure to attract a large presence of resident protectors. The Silva Plan is a locally developed and widely endorsed alternative to the government's plan of "business-as-usual" clearcut logging. The Slocan Valley offers the best opportunity to apply this ecosystems-based forest management regime, with sustainable jobs and protected soil and water quality. We stand in support of the residents of the Slocan Valley in asking the government to embrace this solution to a 20-year old conflict. -30 - Call the toll-free Perry's Ridge PEACE VILLAGE HOTLINE at 888-221-5599 SLOCAN VALLEY WATERSHED PROTECTORS - BACKGROUNDER September 15, 1997 This summer, hundreds of B.C. citizens stood on the road in a defiant cry for safe drinking water and intact ecosystems in the Slocan Valley in the West Kootenays. 21 people peacefully presented themselves for arrest at logging blockades at New Denver Flats and at Perry's Ridge. Eloise Dolly Charet, arrested for resisting logging in New Denver Flats where her family gets their drinking water, has been held in custody in a maximum security prison for two months. She chose to fast for pure water since her July 22 arrest. Her hunger strike is now in day 55. Like Eloise, Jack Ross would not promise to obey a court order based on an injunction granted to Slocan Forest Products that allows them to log without interference in Perry's Ridge, 20km south of New Denver. This 76-year old Quaker and World War II veteran has fasted for a total of 25 days. Dozens of other BC citizens have joined these courageous people in shorter fasts of 24 hours or more. The Slocan Valley protests were inevitable when the NDP government reneged on promises at the Kootenay CORE table and approved clearcut logging in community watersheds. They have cynically hidden behind a narrowly worded court ruling and outdated risk assessments in permitting logging to proceed. The majority of local residents and municipal councils support a community-developed plan for ecosystem-based forest management for the area. The Silva Plan, developed by renowned eco-forester and Slocan Valley resident Herb Hammond, is the solution to the conflict. The Plan proposes sustainable jobs and forest ecosystems. Yet, the government, including local MLA and cabinet member Corky Evans, is running roughshod over the rights of residents to safe water and democratic process. For more information, contact: The Valhalla Wilderness Society: Tel (250) 358-2333 The Perry Ridge Water Users: Tel (250) 226-7324 ----- Peter Ronald imPulse Communications / vox: 250.361-3621 impulse@islandnet.com / fax: 250.361-3682 From ???@??? Sun Sep 14 21:52:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-75.islandnet.com [198.53.172.75] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0x9NkP-0006fKC for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:54:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth BC-- Kwakiutl Nation invites Greenpeace to stop fish farms X-UIDL: 387f1004a078cece5a42115c439c49dc ===== A message from the 'micec' discussion list ===== Please Circulate Widely for MTTC. Apologies for Cross-posting duplication - Howard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Musgamagw Tswataineuk Tribal Council P.O. Box 90, Alert Bay, B.C. VON 1AO Tel. (250) 974-5516 Toll Free: 1 800-244-0969 Fax (250) 974-5466 EMAIL: MTTC@north.island.net Press Release For Immediate Release August 26/97 The Kwakiutl First Nations will not tolerate the expansion of fishfarms in their traditional territories. Fishfarms are a threat to sensitive ecosystems and the marine food chain. Areas such as the Broughton Archipelago has sustainred Kwakuital civilization for thousands of years. Now, productive clam beds are being destroyed. Cod and halibut stocks are being threatened. There is great concern for the suurvival of Oolichan runs on the Kingcome and Knight Inlet rivers. "Kwakiutl First Nations will resort to all means possible to stop the continued contamination of our ecosystems and the way of life of the Kwakuitl people." "To destroy a way of life is to destroy a people. Genocide is the ultimate result." The Kwakiutl people will now muster a sustained opposition to the development of fishfarms. It seems clear that only civil disobedience in the long haul will save us from irreparable harm. Every legal recourse will be explored. The Kwakiutl people will coalesce with all parties with the same concern. Environmentalists, Sea Shepherds Society, Greenpeace, Sierra Legal Defense Fund and all First Natiuons people, moderate and militant, will be coveted to join the Kwakiutl people in this honorable pursuit. -30- For further information contact: Yvon Gesinghaus, General Manager Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council P.O. Box 90, Alert Bay, B.C. VON 1AO Tel. (250) 974-5516 Toll Free: 1 800-244-0969 Fax (250) 974-5466 EMAIL: MTTC@north.island.net From ???@??? Tue Sep 16 23:12:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i3-56.islandnet.com [198.53.172.23] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0xAtCu-0006efC for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 01:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970916014030.3e7f3fce@mail.islandnet.com> X-Sender: impulse@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 01:40:30 To: impulse@islandnet.com From: impulse@islandnet.com Subject: Slocan Update: Victoria Sept. 15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: ae1cfcfbdc98b9364ad20002774e1e1c (let me know of any duplications on this list please) Just wanted to report that I am pleased with the day's efforts in Victoria: We had ~80 at the courthouse for our rally. CHEK 6 (with at least 5 other media, including the T-C, CBC-Radio, CKKQ, The Ocean, News Group) was there to do a live feed of Janet Bassingthwaighte (see, I can spell her name) for the noon-hour news. We had several large banners and a table covered with bottles of water bearing the Valley's creek names. A group of people wearing blue represented the arrestees, with signs around their necks bearing theie names and dates/place of arrest. At the mock trial, Saul Arbess as the judge read the charges, verdict and sentences with full custom flourish (nice wig, Saul). The Slocan Slammer, a large trailer mounted cage, housed 6 defendents: Clark, Zirnhelt, Evans, Dosanjh, MacGregor, and our good friend Ike Barber. These were the specifics: Charges: 1. Wanton disregard of the clear wishes of the Slocan communities; 2. Reckless endangerment of the Slocan communities' drinking water; 3. Refusal to implement the Silva Plan for ecosystem based community development; 4. Betrayal of the public trust and debasement of democracy; 5. Compromising the integrity of natural ecosystems. Judgement: GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES Sentence: 1. Implement in full the Silva Forest Management Plan; 2. Halt logging in community consumptive use watersheds; 3. Two years of community service performing ecological restoration int he Slocan Valley; 4. Withdrawal of all charges against the watershed defenders. The Raging Grannies and then Bobby Arbess lead us in some singing ("We shall stop the cle-earcuts" and "We shall save the watersheds"--you can just imagine!) Then most of the group followed the Slammer for an energetic walk through downtown Victoria to the Legislature. There the group chanted and afforded speakers their chance while Janet and I went into the Leg. Janet was great. She first tried to meet with the Minister of Forests. We had asked for a meeting a couple of weeks ago, during her walk from the valley. We continue to await our appointment. She then tried to deliver her statement and a copy of the Angus Reid Poll to the Premier. Of course he was in Alberta, but no matter, they locked his door to us when Janet and I approached. We were told to take any deliveries to the front desk. Instead we rallied again before his West Wing and carried on (with media present) until one of his staffers came out and accepted Janet[s offering. Ka'an Muncaster, meanwhile, was busy doing the Judi Tyabji Show with Marty Hyken (ex of the Valley; a founder of SVWA). I have a tape of their show and the news coverage but haven't seen much of it yet. What I have seen looks good. Certainly the event(s) went off very well with good energy, lots of support and momentum throughout the hour. I think we even did good good media. We are standing by now with an eye to Bonanza. We will have a meeting in the next week or so and are available to consider more actions and activity from here. Let us do implement some car pooling or ride sharing from the coast to the Valley. Let people know that they can coordinate this in Victoria through the FoSV: 250-361-3621. Keep the faith. From ???@??? Mon Sep 15 22:49:46 1997 To: Stuart Hertzog From: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) Subject: Re: Remove from list Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: >Hope everything is OK with you and the childs. I'm planning a trip down >south soon, so please can you take me off any mailing lists you have me on? >I may be checking my mail remotely and don't want a lot of messages >cluttering it. I'll let you know when I want back on your lists. I removed you from Earth BC. Let me know if/when you would like back on. Are you still in Nelson? Life is very grand here in the capital. We are very happy if tired. Hope you enjoy your journeys. Love, AL From ???@??? Sun Sep 21 10:22:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-47.islandnet.com [198.53.172.47] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0xBEEj-0006bqC for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:09:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: "Mike Nickerson, Inviting Debate" (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth BC-- A Question of Direction X-UIDL: e92b5ad2d9a9db20aeb2da6f200b2cf7 If we want a say in the future, we have to speak up soon. October 19th marks the tenth anniversary of two historic events. On that day in 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development tabled its report at the United Nations. The Report confirmed that humankind is stretching the Earth's capacity to support us. Related or not, that same morning saw the enormous 'Black Monday' stock market crash. The coincidence of these two events highlights a conflict of interests so serious that our survival depends on resolving it. On one hand is the need to maintain sustainable relationships with the life processes of our planet and between the various parts of the human family. On the other hand is a huge economic system which has to grow still larger to remain healthy. These two interests call for different measures. Do we model societies to accommodate planetary limitations or do we develop them to pursue endless growth. This is the Question of Direction. To date, the citizens who's children have to live with the consequences of this choice have not been asked their preference. The winners of the global growth game are writing regulations to give themselves further advantage. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have already caused much change. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), presently being negotiated, aims to give investors global rights. It would no longer be possible to require such investors to buy, sell or hire locally. Environmental and labour laws could be challenged as interference in their business and nations would be powerless to insist even that an enterprise or asset be kept in the country where it is purchased. One trade dispute presently before NAFTA's closed door dispute settlement panel foretells of things to come. Ethel Corp in the US makes a gasoline additive which contains manganese. There is enough danger that this element will inhibit pollution control devices in cars that a law was passed forbidding its use in Canada. Through NAFTA, Ethel Corp is suing the Canadian Government for $251 million US for business lost due to this law. NAFTA has the power to declare our law illegal and we would either have to repeal it or pay the quarter billion dollars in damages to Ethel Corp. The objective of trade agreements is to accommodate economic expansion. If people feel environmental and social concerns have to be given equal if not greater importance, we have to speak up. Inviting Debate is a part of an expanding network of groups and individuals who want to make sure that these concerns are not lost. We have developed a variety of materials and procedures to move the choice between sustainability and perpetual economic expansion into the democratic forum for people to choose. Some materials require almost no time to be used effectively. Others, with a little time commitment, can involve organizations, networks, communities and campuses. Please get in touch and help question the assumption that economic expansion is the ultimate goal of humankind. Yours truly, Mike Nickerson, Inviting Debate For more information about the Question of Direction, see: http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain/Question/Question.html For a review of: The Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many, and endangered the planet, see: http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain/growth.html "If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going." (anon) http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain Sustainability Project - Inviting Debate P.O. Box 374, Merrickville, Ontario K0G 1N0 (613) 269-3500 e-mail: sustain@web.net From ???@??? Thu Sep 25 21:41:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-45.islandnet.com [198.53.172.45] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0xE6du-0006bbC for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:39:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth BC-- Our daughter has been hit X-UIDL: 424e21316be67fec4b2ef902a11583ca >To: gdauncey@mail.islandnet.com >From: steveb@octonet.com (steve bali) >Subject: skin cancer > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Text of Presentation to BC School District No. 61 on September 22,1997 > >Contact: Steve Balyi / vox: 250.480-7285 fax: 250.480-7285 steveb@octonet.com > > >SUNBURN, MELANOMA AND BC SCHOOL DISTRICT # 61 > Our daughter attends school in District 61. Last June, she went for a day at the beach with her grade one class. She came home with her first ever sunburn. Her back was red and hot to the touch. That night I bathed it with baking soda. The Canadian Cancer Society tells us that a single such exposure in young children, can lead to skin cancer. Of the various cancers, skin cancer is the most common. It is also the most easily prevented. > Putting grade one school children out in the mid-day summer sun, with only chemical sunscreen and bathing suits for protection, is tantamount to placing them in a busy intersection at rush hour, with bicycle helmets for protection. > Our daughter has been hit. Had she been hit by a car, rushed to a hospital for an immediate diagnosis, the link between cause and effect would be obvious. Given that she was struck by the sun, the diagnosis will not be in for thirty years. Our current notions of causality don't extend that far. > Until her school trip to the beach, our systematic sun protection practices at home served her well. They dovetailed with the practices of her preschool daycare. These practices are simple and well known; avoiding the sun from 10 until 4, constantly seeking shade, slipping on a hat and sunglasses, sliding on a shirt, and slopping on chemical sunscreens. > The BC Public School System negligently ignores these safeguards. Each level in the system passes the buck downstream until ultimately, as I will demonstrate, the responsibility for this aspect of the health and safety of our primary school children, is left to the very children themselves. > I began my investigation with a series of local telephone calls. Here is what I discovered. The BC Ministry of Education does not have a specific sun protection policy. The Ministry leaves it up to the school districts. School Districts 61, 62 and 63 do not have any policy on sun protection. They in turn leave the matter up to the schools. Our elementary school does not have a program of sun protection for our school children. I suspect most don't. > Various educators I spoke to in the system, maintained that by the age of seven children should be able to follow a set of simple instructions and that sun protection was like teaching children to wash their hands, better left to the family. Not only does that ignore what we know about the state of family in these times, but they all ignored what we know about the powers of peer pressure, particularly when it works in tandem with a lack of proper role modeling. > The bureaucratic buck passing, is nurtured by this social milieu of denial. It's not our problem , they all seem to be saying. What does that stance offer the little victims, who are dependent on our wisdom? > Soon after starting grade one, Alysia, became increasingly reluctant to wear a hat at school. This was surprising, because she loves her hats and helmets, they're part of dress-up. They've just always been there and her new reluctance is school specific. We discussed the problem with her in various ways, including several talks with her teacher. We took precautions, on the morning of the trip to the beach, Alysia's mother Julie, showed the teacher Alysia's hat and long sleaved shirt. The teacher agreed to ensure that Alysia wore them at the beach. > The morning after the sunburn, Julie again spoke to the teacher, in the hall, after all the children were in their classrooms. The teacher said she asked Alysia to put on the hat and shirt, that when Alysia did not comply, she and the five volunteer parents , had so many children to deal with, that there was no follow up. Julie, became upset. She raised her voice. > The next day, I took Alysia to a doctor. We have the doctor's corroboration of Alysia' sunburn. We then went to see the principle. He wanted to talk about 'your wife's behavior in the hall.'. He asked me to consider the affect my wife's behavior would have on the other teachers. I was not there to explain the behavior of others. > I asked him to look at Alysia's back. He confirmed her sunburn. Exposure to ultraviolet rays was of special concern to him. He had suffered from Melanoma. He maintained however, that while Alysia's sunburn was regrettable, it was due to human error. His only remedial suggestion was that we could volunteer for future field trips, to prevent this type of thing. > During that sunny lunch hour I did a hat count, at our school. There were several hundred children playing outside. I counted thirteen hats. I counted twenty two adults. Not one wore a hat. Eight pre-school children walked through the school ground. They and their two workers all wore hats. > I also did a lunch time hat count at a private elementary school. Approximately 75% of the children wore hats and long sleaves. All the teachers wore hats and long sleaves. I was informed that this not compulsory. Apparently the sun protection practices of most private schools are a continuation of the practices of the pre-schools. In fact many pre-schools and private schools use their sun protection programs as recruiting tool in pitching parents. They use identical, simple and effective educational tools in their sun protection programs, education, in conjunction with role modeling and a positive, pro-active use of peer pressure. > That evening I asked Alysia if the teacher had looked at her back . Alysia replied somewhat defiantly "Madame said it wasn't that bad." That, was the note on which our school year ended. > Last week, I attended and took not so cheap snapshots, of our school's very own, Terry Fox Run. A run to find a cure for cancer. Just after going in from the lunch hour, the children and teachers trooped out of the building at 1:10 on that sunny afternoon and didn't return until just before 3 p.m. Several hundred children participated. I counted eighteen hats amongst them. Of all the teachers only two wore hats. The principal was running with the big kids. He wore shorts and a T-shirt. He did not wear a hat. > The timing of the event, and the fact there were only 20 hats, does not add up to a single ounce of skin cancer prevention. These facts, can not be dismissed, simply as human error. These facts, reflect the lack of a pro-active and systematic sun protection policy in our public schools, in spite of the fact that, Canada has the second highest rate of skin cancer in the world. > "Australia has the highest rates of melanoma in the world. It also leads the world in the prevention of skin cancer. From school-based programs to community awareness, and action, and to regulatory changes, the nation has embraced the prevention of skin cancer. > The rule enforced in [public] grade school is simple: no hat, no play. Under the rule enforced by teachers, children who do not have a hat are required to sit in the shade during breaks at school." > In Australia, people with suntans are considered "bloody idiots!" They legislated their national prevention program ten years ago." What are we waiting for? > Alysia does not want to wear a hat at school because she does not want to be a 'geek'. Her peers can consider her a 'geek' because our public schools do not provide, neither suitable role models for sun safety, nor the incorporation of sufficient sun protection education into curriculum. The public school system, fails to provide leadership in sun protection. This creates a social environment which powerfully undermines, years of home based prevention. > Chairperson Carole James, publicly confirmed the existence of a two tiered educational system. It is terrible. But, let us learn from private schools. Let us now take steps to eradicate the far more terrible, two tiered system of skin cancer prevention. If we act now, we will avoid administrative nightmares in the spring, as well as negative media campaigns, and class action suits. > Causality is difficult to establish when cancer appears thirty years after the impact. However, we are on the edge of a paradigm shift. This spring, two scientists at the University of Windsor, biologist Doug Haffner and biochemist Khosrow Adeli developed a test which measure directly and immediately the damage to human cells. The relatively inexpensive test will be commercially available next fall. The reckless disregard for our children's future health must now stop. Will it take a high profile class action suit before we implement an effective sun protection program? > Let us, now embrace the prevention of skin cancer. Lets get the teachers union on board, lets get the media, and the corporation , just like we so successfully did raising money for cancer. The point is that right now it can be done without great financial expenditure, while thirty years from now, not only will Alysia's peers have their own elementary school children, but our grandchildren, will be dealing with their parent's three out of five skin cancer rate, thanks to our current negligence. So, let us as a school district, voluntarily, productively, take a positive step out, onto the North American front, in the battle against the imminent skin cancer epidemic. > -30- > >For more information, contact: Steve Balyi / vox: 250.480-7285 fax: 250.480-7285 steveb@octonet.com From ???@??? Tue Sep 23 22:13:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: from helios.physics.utoronto.ca [128.100.148.15] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0xD4tZ-0006bHa for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 02:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by helios.physics.utoronto.ca id <1958>; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 05:33:28 -0400 Received: by helios.physics.utoronto.ca id <1869>; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 05:33:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 05:33:06 -0400 From: Eric Fawcett To: s4ptor@physics.utoronto.ca, s4potht@physics.utoronto.ca, s4pont@physics.utoronto.ca, s4pcan@physics.utoronto.ca Subject: A Question of Direction: NAFTA, GATT, MAI and all that Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-s4pcan@physics.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: e184d8b7e7d26609a675ab32d53b7e08 If we want a say in the future, we have to speak up soon. October 19th marks the tenth anniversary of two historic events. On that day in 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development tabled its report at the United Nations. The Report confirmed that humankind is stretching the Earth's capacity to support us. Related or not, that same morning saw the enormous 'Black Monday' stock market crash. The coincidence of these two events highlights a conflict of interests so serious that our survival depends on resolving it. On one hand is the need to maintain sustainable relationships with the life processes of our planet and between the various parts of the human family. On the other hand is a huge economic system which has to grow still larger to remain healthy. These two interests call for different measures. Do we model societies to accommodate planetary limitations or do we develop them to pursue endless growth. This is the Question of Direction. To date, the citizens who's children have to live with the consequences of this choice have not been asked their preference. The winners of the global growth game are writing regulations to give themselves further advantage. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have already caused much change. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), presently being negotiated, aims to give investors global rights. It would no longer be possible to require such investors to buy, sell or hire locally. Environmental and labour laws could be challenged as interference in their business and nations would be powerless to insist even that an enterprise or asset be kept in the country where it is purchased. One trade dispute presently before NAFTA's closed door dispute settlement panel foretells of things to come. Ethel Corp in the US makes a gasoline additive which contains manganese. There is enough danger that this element will inhibit pollution control devices in cars that a law was passed forbidding its use in Canada. Through NAFTA, Ethel Corp is suing the Canadian Government for $251 million US for business lost due to this law. NAFTA has the power to declare our law illegal and we would either have to repeal it or pay the quarter billion dollars in damages to Ethel Corp. The objective of trade agreements is to accommodate economic expansion. If people feel environmental and social concerns have to be given equal if not greater importance, we have to speak up. Inviting Debate is a part of an expanding network of groups and individuals who want to make sure that these concerns are not lost. We have developed a variety of materials and procedures to move the choice between sustainability and perpetual economic expansion into the democratic forum for people to choose. Some materials require almost no time to be used effectively. Others, with a little time commitment, can involve organizations, networks, communities and campuses. Please get in touch and help question the assumption that economic expansion is the ultimate goal of humankind. Yours truly, Mike Nickerson, Inviting Debate For more information about the Question of Direction, see: http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain/Question/Question.html For a review of: The Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many, and endangered the planet, see: http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain/growth.html http://www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain Sustainability Project - Inviting Debate P.O. Box 374, Merrickville, Ontario K0G 1N0 (613) 269-3500 e-mail: sustain@web.net From ???@??? Mon Oct 06 14:08:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: from i2-46.islandnet.com [198.53.172.46] by mail.islandnet.com with smtp id m0xIKCz-0006cpC for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:56:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:56:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: emerald@mail.islandnet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: earth@IslandNet.com From: ernie yacub (by way of emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle)) Subject: Earth Canada-- The law vs environmental boycotts (Lubicon) X-UIDL: 0649b54f751b2d7dbd9d642b8fb30e62 [Please note: The following mainstream article may contain distorted or inaccurate information and may be missing important facts and/or context. It is provided for reference purposes only - S.I.S.I.S.] THE LUBICON PROTEST "The environment", Globe and Mail, Tuesday, September 30, 1997 By Michael Valpy A COURT case about to conclude in Toronto may determine what Canadians can say on such great matters as the environment, consumption of diminishing resources, and the impact of public policy and material progress on aboriginal peoples. The case involves an application brought by the giant Japanese-owned, paper-products firm, Daishowa Inc., for a permanent injunction halting the boycott campaign -- a successful crusade -- against its products by a Toronto-based group called Friends of the Lubicon. Among others things, Daishowa wants a judicial finding that the campaign is tantamount to a conspiracy to harm the company and that the Friends defamed Daishowa by stating that its logging intentions on land claimed as traditional hunting territory by the impoverished Lubicon Cree of Northern Alberta amounted to genocide. The implications of the case are fascinating. They touch on the sort of freedom citizens' groups should have to protest against industrial pollution, against commercial development in environmentally sensitive areas, against corporate objectives perceived to be destructive of aboriginal peoples' culture. They, in fact, touch on freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of association. And, given one of the central issues -- the use of the word "genocide" -- before Mr. Justice James MacPherson of the Ontario Court's General Division, they also touch on what Canadians might or might not be told about the impact on aboriginal culture of the large-scale exploitation of natural resources. Friends of the Lubicon lost the legal battle 21 months ago against the imposing of an interim injunction against their boycott campaign. An Ontario Court of Appeal majority decision stated the group acted with the intent to harm Daishowa -- rejecting the Friends' argument that they acted merely to support the Lubicon and to pressure the company to promise not to log land claimed by the Lubicon until the band's land claims are settled. Daishowa has stated that it lost nearly $2-million in profit directly attributable to the Friends' campaign, which, among other things, was aimed at persuading customers and potential customers of Daishowa products to buy from other suppliers. The appeal court arrived too effortlessly at the decision that this loss constituted a tort -- a wrongful legal injury. The fact of harm does not automatically mean an intent to harm. And when the action being subjected to legal analysis is profoundly entwined with the public value of Canadians' democratic freedoms, the courts should walk on eggs. As it stands, the appeal court ruling is a sword for any corporation to grab to skewer citizen protest campaigns. What, for example, might the decision mean for any group that wanted to support the Labrador north coast Innu and Inuit by organizing a boycott campaign in response to the environmental threats posed by the potential developers of the Voisey's Bay nickel resource? THE essence of Daishowa's argument is that the Friends' employment of what is known as secondary picketing was illegal because the group used illegal means: a plan to injure the company economically, a misrepresentation of the company's intentions vis-=E0-vis logging on Lubicon-claimed land and a defaming of the company by stating that its intentions amounted to genocide against the Lubicon. Under the terms of the interim injunction, Friends of the Lubicon are "prohibited from using 'genocide' or 'genocidal' or other terms connoting genocide in written or oral communications." I dropped into the courtroom yesterday morning to hear some of the genocide argument. Lawyer Peter Jervis, counsel for Daishowa, tried to block Friends' lawyer Karen Wristen from calling as an expert witness University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, a recognized international authority on genocide and its relevance to the treatment of North American indigenous peoples. Mr. Jervis argued that Prof. Churchill's evidence would be merely opinion, that genocide has no definition in case law and that a simple dictionary definition of genocide would suffice which, in any event, would be the way most Canadians understand the word (my Oxford dictionary calls it "deliberate extermination of a people"). Ms. Wristen wanted to establish that physically killing people is only one definition of genocide. Judge MacPherson said he would hear Prof. Churchill's testimony and decide afterwards whether to admit it. The professor gave a compelling dissertation on the word's origin, history and meaning in international law. The bottom line of what he said is that the definition of genocide includes causing serious psychological harm to a "race, nation or tribe" and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated in whole or in part to bring about a group's destruction. Judge MacPherson admitted his evidence. E-mail: mvalpy@globeandmail.ca :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2 EMAIL : WWW: http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/SISmain.html SOVERNET-L is a news-only listserv concerned with indigenous sovereigntist struggles around the world. To subscribe, send "subscribe sovernet-l" in the body of an email message to For more information on sovernet-l, contact S.I.S.I.S. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: From ???@??? Mon Oct 06 14:06:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: from coastnet.com [206.87.35.216] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0xHuYY-0006fZC for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d73.coastnet.com (d73.coastnet.com [206.87.35.83]) by coastnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA14335 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 10:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710051733.KAA14335@coastnet.com> X-Sender: fractious@coastnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: emerald@islandnet.com (Alan Rycroft or Kealey Pringle) From: Ted Subject: Tapes available. Re: The truth about Gustafsen Lake. X-UIDL: 1d600385aac23996000570af6ddf27c5 At 21:19 04/10/97 -0700, you wrote: >I appreciate the periodic reports received from you. Thank you. > > Well then, thats cool. Being here on the (Wet) Coast, I have some advantages. (1). The court of appeals is here. Many of the documents are stored here. (2). Our reporter, who didn't fall for the dirty tricks, works at my station. So, I ride on his coat tails. (instant reputation). Mainly its our coverage of events that gives us a good rep.! Anyhow; Friday Oct.17th. Splitting the Sky, and, Bill Lightbown will be holding a public talk. I've arranged interviews with both of them. (same day) Also, Saturday Oct.18th. They will be giving more talks @ The Fernwood community cent... After that I'll have interviews with people who attended. So there are two things to look for. Any questions: About Gustafsen Lake stand off, the trial, sentances, status, etc. let me know what you need. I'll try to send/connect you with great sources. Ps. If you have any questions you'd like me to ask Spltting Sky, or Bill Lightbown, send them. And a reminder, CFUV radio is a Non-Profit radio station. We are not hampered or controlled by financial considerations. (No ad's) No companies calling us to kill stories. No Conrad Black telling us how or what to report. Anyhow I rant a little when during "Fund Drive". Oh, I just about forgot. In about two hours I'll be on Merv Wilkinson's propety. Merv is an Ecco-Logger. He's been on the same 10,000 hec. lot scince 1938. He hasn't planted a tree in years... No need. His practices are based on all of the good practic world wide. He's had every body you can think of down to look at the way he does things. No complants. But, the only one who has not been to see him is our own B.C. Gov. Skeena Cello., is a pulp mill who is about to layoff thousands of workers because they cant cut enough trees. Watch your news and see if they don't get a cash gift to remain open. Or, watch as they get to cut more trees. or both. Never the less, there is still Merv. If comanies opperated like he does, we'd have wood for thousands of generations. The draw back is: We won't be able to compete with countries who pay pesant wages. Nor will we be able to compete with with countries who strip mine their resources. Today Merv shows us all what to do. He'll start by having a Native elder saying a prayer. The tree beeing felled, while falling will prune the surounding trees. A horse team will drag the log to the mill. Once cut, the wood goes to local artists, and handy carfters.(ie: Value added) The remained goes to local constr. The remainder goes to market. (Little or none). The other thing. As the forest is thined, it replaneted with mushrooms and other medicinal plants. Seirra Legal Defence has a Vidio tape about Merv. I've got 3-5 hrs of interviews with Merv. Obviously, I'm going to ask questions that I didn't ask last time. (So, thats my day. Next 5 hrs at Merv Wilkinson's logging operations. Wild-Wood Forest Products) (mid island, east coast) Ladysmith or Duncan on your map. If you want tapes let me know. TTYL From ???@??? Tue Oct 07 18:51:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mars.ark.com [204.50.2.7] by mail.islandnet.com with esmtp id m0xIg7I-0006cNC for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 13:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lp-e (io1p14.ark.com [204.50.2.47]) by mars.ark.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA25346; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 13:19:24 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971007132032.0073edf0@mars.ark.com> X-Sender: yacinfo@mars.ark.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 13:20:32 -0700 To: cvforum@mars.ark.com, dfi-list@kinch.ark.com From: ernie yacub Subject: Mitsubishi: Industrial Ecology (excerpts) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-UIDL: a93f6fd8aaf4e2ea4bd9a3f1259e8559 The following is an excerpt of the keynote address to the World Future Society on July 19, 1997, by Tachi Kiuchi, Member of the Board, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Chairman of the Future 500, and immediate past Chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric America. The whole speech, well worth the read, is 25k long. To get the whole speech, send me a note with "send speech" in the subject line. Thanks to Lynn Hunter and Caspar Davis . ernie yacub > >*************************************************************************** **** >* > > >WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE RAINFOREST > >Thank you for the honor and privilege of speaking with you this afternoon. > >I have been fascinated by the global perspectives I have gained at my first >World Future Society conference, and I appreciate all that I have learned >>from you. > >I come to speak on the two issues most vital to the future of my business, >and perhaps of the world: the environment, and the emerging information >economy. > >To me these topics seem intimately linked. Perhaps this is partly because I >work for an electronics company, and I see our impacts on the environment. > >But my most important lessons about the link between business and >environment and economy did not come from my company. > >My most important lessons about business and environment I learned in the >forest. Let me explain. > >My first lesson in the forest happened 37 years ago, days after I graduated >>from the University of British Columbia. > >I was asleep when I got my lesson. This was unfortunate, because at the >time I was driving a little British car, through the forests of the >Canadian Rockies. > >It is not advisable to drive a car through the Rockies when one is asleep. >You might drive off a cliff, which is exactly what happened to me. > >When I woke up in the hospital, I had plenty of time to reflect upon what I >could learn from this incident. I remembered advice that my father had >given me a few years before. > >He knew I was an adventurer, and a risk taker. He liked that, but he didn't >want me to have too much of a good thing. So he took me aside and told me: >"Do whatever you want. But don't die." > >I wanted to call my father to tell him that I had taken his good advice. >But my jaw was clamped shut. So I couldn't. > >He found out anyway. The Japanese Consul General saw an article on my >adventure in the local newspaper, and sent it to him. > >I have since passed along my father's advice to others. I think about it >when people ask me what I think about SUSTAINABILITY. > >To me, this is what it means: "Do what you want. Follow your purpose. But >don't die." > >For a young man, driving off a cliff in the Rocky Mountains teaches a >valuable lesson. > >LESSON NUMBER ONE: > >STAY ALERT. WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING. > >It seems to me that the global business community is driving quickly toward >a cliff, and we have our eyes closed. > >If we opened them, here is what we would see: > >Today, 600 million of the Earth's inhabitants -- in Europe, Japan, and the >United States -- enjoy the material benefits of industrialism. > >Soon, 2.5 billion more -- China, India, the former Soviet republics – will >join us. > >And after them, the final 3 billion will seek the same. They demand and >deserve to share in the benefits which we enjoy. > >To do that today, we need three planets. But we have only one. > >We must learn a new way of life. > >We must learn to provide affluence without effluence. > >We must develop prosperous human communities, with meaningful work and >social equity between various groups. > >And we must do so by consuming LESS from the environment, not more. [...] > >The letters confused me at first. We are an electronics company. We have no >timber holdings. We make no forest products. We use very little paper or >wood. What's the connection? > [...] >But I learned something else in the rainforest, something more profound. I >learned how we might operate our company not just to SAVE the rainforest, >but to BE