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EVENTS and ACTIVITIES
 
Canada. The Public Concern Temiskaming is coordinating with citizens fighting Bennett waste incineration proposal in Belledune and St. Ambroise in Quebec for a possible joint action/statement for the GDA.
 
USA. Cancer Action New York will conduct a Global Day of Action event on 14 July 2003. The focus will be upon minimization toward elimination of dioxins, furans, PCBs, hexachlorobenzene, and benzo(a)pyrene from the waters of the St. Lawrence River for the purpose of providing children with a healthy environment. The issue of fish contamination and the role of this exposure route in disease causation will be addressed. The group will demand for: phase-out of hazardous waste incineration, phase-out of municipal solid waste incineration, banning of open waste burning and phase-out of PVC. Cancer Action will also call attention to the GAIA Report and to the Report made by the Institute of Medicine on dioxin contamination.
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The Chemical Weapons Working Group will release the GAIA Report "Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology" via a press release and web link.

 


Oppose Federal Incentives
for Garbage Incineration
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Garbage Incineration is
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Eric Lombardi of EcoCyle will give a talk on "Redefining Society's Discards" on July 17. The group will be publicizing as much as possible the GDA and its connection to the bigger context.

Essential Action will urge people around the U.S. to call the offices of Senator Graham of Florida, who is running for president in 2004, to push against the inclusion of "waste-to-energy" as clean, renewable energy source under the pending Energy bill. The U.S. Senate is working to pass a dirty, dangerous energy bill that would harm consumers, public health and the environment. If adopted, the U.S. garbage incinerator industry will qualify for tax breaks and incentives, which would encourage the construction of new garbage incinerators. Graham is leading the fight to include incinerators in the said bill as clean, renewable energy.

Jack Weinberg of the Global Chemical Safety Program, Environmental Health Fund will be in Geneva to lobby delegates at the NC7 of the Stockholm Convention on POPs.

The Citizens Leading for Environmental Action and Responsibility, Green Delaware, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, USA and the Tri-Estate Environmental Council are taking part in the Global Day of Action against waste incineration.

 

      
     
     
 
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