FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ecojustice to announce new wildlife lawsuit Wednesday
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filed under:
Northern Gateway,
species at risk act
Sep 25, 2012 12:34 PM
Ecojustice will be joined by the Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club B.C. for a media briefing Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 10:30 a.m. PT.
The case focuses on four species — the Pacific Humpback Whale, Nechako White Sturgeon, Marbled Murrelet and Southern Mountain Caribou — that live along the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and shipping route.
Ecojustice is bringing the case before the Federal Court on behalf of five environmental groups: the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace Canada, Sierra Club B.C., Wilderness Committee and Wildsight.
WHEN
September 26, 2012
10:30 a.m. PT
WHERE
Olympic Village seawall
Athletes Way at Manitoba Street
Vancouver, B.C.
Note: The briefing will be done scrum-style (no audioboard plug-in).
WHO
Devon Page, executive director | Ecojustice
Sean Nixon, staff lawyer | Ecojustice
Gwen Barlee, policy director | Wilderness Committee
George Heyman, executive director | Sierra Club B.C.
For more details, please contact
Kimberly Shearon, communications coordinator | Ecojustice
604.685.5618 x242 | kshearon@ecojustice.ca
Alexis Stoymenoff, communications assistant | Wilderness Committee
604.683.8220 | 604.369.3351 | alexis@wildernesscommittee.org
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