Opinion

Protecting our children’s environmental heritage

by Lynn Hunter.
MP — Saanich-Gulf Islands

Our children are inheriting a
country which is sick and diseased
compared to the state of our coun-
try a generation ago.

Our ozone layer has been dest-
royed to the extent that the federal
Minister of the Environment, Jean
Charest, has warned that our chil-
dren should not expose themselves
to the sun.

Many of our lakes and rivers are
dead or dying. Our forests are sold
off in unimaginably large tracts to
pulp and paper companies. We
continue to encourage global
warming and our children have
been robbed of the opportunity to
share our environment with many
species of animals, plants, fish and
birds, now extinct through bad
choices we have made as individu-
als and through our governments.

We can change the future.

One key way in which we can
protect our environment is through
environmental assessment. This
means we can ensure that when
mega-projects, industrial expan-
sion or such undertakings as devel-
oping more pulp and paper mills
or damming rivers for hydro-
electric power are being planned,
we have the opportunity to step in
and say; “Hold on. Just what will
this project mean to our environ-
ment? What will we be doing to
our children’s heritage if we go
ahead with this project?”

The federal government recently
tried to make a bad situation worse

by introducing a law which would
have set us even further back from
being able to protect our environ-

Our waters, our lands and our air
would have suffered. Canadians’
right to a healthy and safe environ-
ment would have been again sacri-
ficed to short-term big business

interests. :
ment from the impact of big

business mega-projects.

Brian Mulroney’s government
proposed a law which would have
opened the doors to big business
paying off govemment decision-
makers in order to let them go
ahead and build industries without
regard for the future of our envi-
ronment.

New Democrats have helped to
stop this from happening. NDP
Environmental Protection critic
Len Taylor MP (The Battlefords-
Meadow Lake) introduced a
whopping 111 proposed changes
to the government’s proposed
environmental assessment law.

The federal government, through
pressure from New Democrats
working hand in hand with envir-
onmental agencies, decided during
committee study to accept a great
many of these changes.

Now the law (which the House
approved by a vote of 172-27
March 19) is much better for the
environment and not a step back
as Mulroney’s government would
have favored.

Major projects such as James
Bay 2, the Rafferty-Alameda Dam,
the Oldman Dam, Point Aconi,
many already environmental dis-

asters and all of them environmen-
tal assessment nightmares, would
have been held up for closer
scrutiny under a much-improved
environmental assessment law.
The government agreed to New
Democrat proposals that ensure

‘that when a major project or

undertaking is proposed which
might further harm the environ-

ment, the very need for the project
in the first place has to be explored
and justified as well as alternatives
to the project explored, which is
currently not the case.

New Democrats also ensured
that there is better public partici-
pation in the environmental
assessment process.

Abonginal interests with regard
to the environment and major
projects will be better protected

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