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02 November 04 |
A coalition of Canadian and U.S. environmental organizations are calling on the Canadian Environment Minister to establish a full federal panel review of the Wuskwatim Hydro projects. Manitoba Wildlands, the Boreal Forest Network and the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council have asked their members and networks to let Minister Dion know that a federal panel is necessary before potential licenses for the Wuskwatim projects. As of Wednesday October 27, over 40,000 North American activists have written to the Minister requesting the federal panel. By week's end 47,000 messages had been sent."NRDC activists are eager to help change behavior in the United States that threatens the boreal forest," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, director Canada projects, Natural Resources Defense Council. "The boreal forest should be our biggest conservation opportunity, not our biggest development opportunity." View the press release View the Clean Environment Commission Wuskwatim report Source: Manitoba Wildlands/Boreal Forest Network/Natural Resources Defense Council
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