.INDEX PCB Digest - 7/9/02

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1) NOTE CHANGE: Petition Letter to Premier Ernie Eves

We would like all petition letters to be sent/faxed to our office: Public Concern Temiskaming, Box 2320, New Liskeard, ON P0J 1P0 or fax 705-647-1558.

If you have already sent it directly to Premier Eves, please send a copy of it to the PCT office and indicate that you have already sent it to Eves directly. Thank you.

I apologize for the confusion.

The response has been very positive to our request for petition letters. Keep passing on the message.

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1) Petition Letter to Premier Ernie Eves

Date ______________________________

Honourable Ernie Eves, Premier of Ontario
Queen�s Park
Room 281, Main Legislative Building
Toronto, ON M7A 1A1

Dear Honourable Ernie Eves:

RE: PETITION OPPOSING BENNETT ENVIRONMENTAL INC.�S
TOXIC WASTE INCINERATOR IN KIRKLAND LAKE

Whereas the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act has been significantly weakened with regard to the regulations concerning the siting of landfills, incinerators and other project proposals thereby allowing Northern Ontario to be unduly targeted as a waste zone and;

Whereas American experience has shown that all, even state of the art Incinerators, produce and emit, dioxins, furans, lead, mercury, and cadmium at levels that create significant measurable health impacts on the affected communities;

and, Whereas the proposed Bennett incinerator is in violation of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) guidelines;

I/We, the undersigned, petition you, as the Premier of the Province of Ontario, to turn down the current application for the Bennett toxic waste incinerator proposed for Kirkland Lake and;

I/We, the undersigned, further petition you, as Premier of the Province of Ontario, to replace the current Environmental Assessment Act with legislation that gives affected communities a full environmental assessment including intervenor funding, and a comprehensive and public hearing.

Yours truly,

Your Signature(s) ____________________________________________________________

Your Name(s)     ____________________________________________________________

Address              ____________________________________________________________
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Please send/fax your letter to Public Concern Temiskaming, Box 2320, New Liskeard, ON P0J 1P0 or fax 705-647-1558.

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