Petition to Protect PEI from Oil and Gas Development in the Gulf!
We want your concerns about the Gulf of St. Lawrecce to be heard in the PEI legislature!
This January, the Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition on Prince Edward Island launched a petition to support a moratorium on oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
We want as many signatures as possible!
Only "hard copy" signatures (i.e. not online petitions) are accepted, so please take some time to download the petition, gather signatures from your friends and neighbours. Maybe leave a copy at your local library or convenience store ....
Once you have gathered your signatures, please mail your petiton before April 2nd to:
Save Our Seas and Shores-PEI Chapter, VRC, 81 Prince St., Charlottetown, PE C1A 4R3.
Once we have gathered all the signatures, the petition and your concerns will be formally entered into the PEI legislature!
Want to give folks more information or spread the word further while gathering signatures? Please download the brochure below and print it!
Jason Priestley Speaks Out for the Gulf!
Click here to Take Action to Protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence from Oil and Gas
Jason Priestley speaks out for the environment
New National Sierra Club President in Halifax on Heels of Protests in Washington
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Howie Chong is the new National President of the Sierra Club Canada, and he is in Halifax this week to meet supporters, and to get input and ideas about organization priorities and direction.
He is here to introduce himself to members of the Sierra Club Atlantic, based in Halifax, and to encourage involvement and participation on important regional and national issues including: oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, opposition to fracking, and promoting renewable energy.
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Canada’s Environment Watchdog Warns our Oceans At Risk from Oil Spills, Lack of Protection
February 5, 2013
Halifax, NS –Sierra Club Canada –Atlantic Canada Chapter is calling for immediate action to remedy gaps on ocean protection outlined in the Fall 2012 Report of the Commissioner on the Environment and Sustainable Development, released today. The Report focused on the offshore petroleum boards and federal departments’ ability to safeguard the environment, oil spill readiness, and progress in establishing a network of marine protected areas in Canada.... Read more »
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2012: A bleak year for environmental policy
Austerity and obscurantism. These were the defining features of the first full calendar year of Stephen Harper’s majority government, which came to a quiet close this week.
Take, for instance, Bill C-38, Canada’s longest-ever federal budget. Setting out $5-billion in spending cuts, the budget was the most austere in over a decade. And yet, despite the depth of the slashes and thus their potential to remake the country, their nature and likely impacts remain intentionally obscure. As part of an omnibus budget, most of the cuts were not evaluated by the relevant parliamentary committees; details about their implementation were withheld from watchdogs and opposition MPs; and many cuts were to programs without which it will be very difficult to measure the price we’ve paid for austerity.... Read more »
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NEWFOUNDLAND FRACKING WASTE BOUND FOR NOVA SCOTIA
DECEMBER 3, 2012
HALIFAX, NS – Sierra Club Atlantic was shocked to learn that experimental fracking project planned for the West Coast of NL is expecting to ship fracking waste to Nova Scotia. The company, Shoal Point Energy, announced its plans at a community meeting in Cow Head, NL last week.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence is no place to drill for oil
A dire filth now threatens the Gulf of St. Lawrence — a semi-enclosed sea that we must not open up to oil and gas drilling. Our gulf’s relative confinement and strong Atlantic winds make it more risky for drilling even than the Gulf of Mexico. However, seismic testing in preparation for drilling has taken place there with the active encouragement of both federal and provincial governments, who are supposedly the watchdogs protecting Canada’s oceanic environment from destructive exploitation.... Read more »
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