[Sust-mar] White's Point Quarry-Panel Report

[Andy Sharpe & Caroline Hancock]

As I sure you are aware, the Panel Report on the White’s Point Quarry 
and Marine Terminal (the Digby Quarry) was released last week.  In 
preparing this report, the Panel conducted an open, searching and 
thoughtful analysis of the proposed project and its impacts.  The Panel 
recommended that the project should not proceed, as it would lead to 
significant adverse environmental effects that cannot be justified.  In 
reaching this conclusion, the Panel found that the project would not 
make a contribution to sustainability.

The NS Minister of Environment and Labour (Mark Parent) and Federal 
Minister of Environment (John Baird) now have 60 days to decide whether 
or not to accept the Panel’s recommendations.  We are aware the 
proponent of the project, Bilcon of Nova Scotia, is using a variety of 
means to encourage the ministers to reject the report.

It is vitally important that the Ministers recognize the gravity of the 
situation and the widespread opinion that the project should not 
proceed.  I would therefore ask you to contact the two ministers and 
your MLA to express your views on this project.   Contact details are 
included below.  The Panel Report and Executive Summary can be found at 
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/010/0001/0001/0023/nr071023_e.htm

Thank you,

Andy Sharpe



Honourable Mark Parent
Minister of Environment & Labour
6th Floor, Terminal Building
5151 Terminal Road
P. O. Box 697, Halifax, NS, B3J 2T8
Tel: 902-424-6647
Fax: 902-424-0575
e-mail: parentma at gov.ns.ca 


Honourable Mr. John Baird, PC, M.P
Minister of the Environment
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Tel: 613-996-0984
Fax: 613-996-9880
e-mail: Baird.J at parl.gc.ca 
website: www.johnbaird.com 

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