URGENT ALERT: Moisie River
7/14/97
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:35:43 -0400
Subject: URGENT ALERT: Moisie River
URGENT E-MAIL ALERT
TO CREATE A FAX FLOOD
The Innu need your help to ensure that the Moise River, the greatest
returning Atlantic Salmon habitat, is declared a permanently protected as
a Heritage River. We urge you to e-mail and fax this alert to your
networks.
We need a flood of international and U.S. faxes to be sent to Mr. Guy
Chevrette, Quebec Minister of Natural Resources with copies faxed to Mr.
David Cliche, Minister of the Environment and Premier Lucien Bouchard as
soon as possible. Any day now a decision may be made to allow Hydro
Quebec to destroy the Moise River forever to fill U.S. energy needs.
Please act now before it is too late. Faxes create a paper trail and
your signature and address is vital.
PLEASE POST THIS URGENT E-MAIL ALERT TO YOUR NETWORKS AND CONTACT THE
FOLLOWING E-MAIL NUMBERS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Armand Mckenzie, Avocat e-mail: amck@quebectel.com Tel: 418/968-4890
days, 418/927-3285
John Clark, Friends of Nitassinan e-mail: egebroe@zoo.uvm.edu Tel:
802/425-3820
Tom Holzinger, Comite baie-James e-mail: t.holzinger@netaxis.qc
Thank you,
SAMPLE LETTER to send or adapt
Mr. Guy Chevrette, Ministre d'Etat des Ressources Naturelles
Ministre des Affaires Autochtones
Fax: 418/643-4318 and 418/646-4918
Dear Minister Chevrette,
We are writing to express our alarm over Hydro Quebec's intention to
divert the Pekanb and Carheil rivers, tributaries of the world famous
Moise River. A decision by the Province of Quebec to approve this
diversion would go against world opinion and subvert the democractic
process in which all sectors of the public condemned the proposal.
We are aware that the proposed diversions was condemned by your own
agency, the BAPE and was not to be approved without proper scrutiny by the
public and your agency, the BAPE. We fully support this position. We
urge you to suspend authorization of the St. Marguerite 3 (SM3) project,
as the BAPE recommended in 1993, until the impact studies suggested by
them have been completed, and until the modified proposal has been subject
to public review.
We are aware that Mr. David Cliche, Quebec Minister of the Environment has
publicly supported the Moise watershed as a Heritage River. We urge you
to stand by this commitment and support the permanent protection of the
Moisie River, a pristine river by declaring it a Heritage River now.
To tamper with this great river, the jewel of the province merely to
provide cheap electricity would endanger the largest returning salmon
habitat. The Moise River is North America's greatest Atlantic salmon
spawning river with 10-45,000 Atlantic Salmon returning there every year.
The Snake River's salmon are endangered. Regulation does not work. This
can be confirmed by the Atlantic Salmon Federation and was a conclusion
put forward in the BAPE Report.
Please act immediately to declare the Moise a Heritage River to be
permanently protected before it is too late. Please keep it wild.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS
cc: Mr. David Cliche, Minister of the Environment Fax: 418/643-4143
Premier Lucien Bouchard Fax: 418/643-3924
Armand Mckenzie, Avocat Fax: 418/968-2370
NOTE: If you fax Armand Mckenzie, he will forward your faxes to the
following Innu Chiefs and Innu Vice-President. Please fax them if you are
able to:
Thadee Andre, Chief of Schefferville Fax: 418/585-3856
Jean-Charles Pietacho, Chief of Mingan Fax: 418/949-2085
Jules Wapistan, Chief of Natashquan Fax: 418/726-3606
Jerome Mestenapeo, Chief of Pakuashipi Fax: 418/947-2622
Jean-Baptiste Lalo, Chief of La Romaine Fax: 418/229-2921
Guy Bellefleur, Mamit Innuat Fax: 415/949-2416
Ghislain Picard, Vice-Chief AFNQL Fax: 418/842-2660
Daniel Ashini, Vice-President, Innu Nation Fax: 709/497-8396