URGENT- Deadline June 20, 1999


FILE YOUR OBJECTION TO DAVID ANDERSON'S EXPROPRIATION OF NANOOSE BAY

Ottawa's "Notice of Intention to Expropriate", Nanoose Bay has now been published, and we have until June 20 to register objections. Liberal Minister David Anderson is taking this unprecedented action because the US Navy, which uses the Nanoose test range 80 % of the time, wants to be able to bring nuclear warheads and nuclear powered attack submarines into the waters of Georgia Strait.

Numbers count. Although only a single 'objection' to the expropriation is requred to trigger hearings under the federal act, Ottawa and Anderson are sensitive on this issue. They need to be innundated with objections. And send a copy of your letter to your local MP, MLA and media!!


We don't know exactly when or where the expropriation hearings will be held, or whether Ottawa will pay expenses for those people who have to travel to attend hearings which may be held only in Nanaimo or Ottawa. We can be certain, however, that the hearings will be called soon, as the Feds are fast tracking the expropriation to meet their Sept. 04 deadline to ink a deal with the US to let the US Navy bring nukes into BC waters.

The MAIN thing is TO GET YOUR OBJECTION IN THE MAIL BEFORE JUNE 20: or you won't be allowed to participate.

HERE's HOW:Here are the address(es) to mail your objection to. (by 'registered mail'). Please also PUBLISH AND FAX this as widely as possible.


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" ...Any person who objects to the intended expropriation of the above-mentioned interests [expropriation of Nanoose] may at any time within thiry days from the day upon which this Notice of Intention to Expropriate is published in the Canada Gazette, forward by registered mail to, or leave at, the Office of the


Minister of Public Works and Government Services;
Attention: Regional Director, OAS/RES, Pacific Region,
800 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C.
V6Z 2V8


(OR)


Director General, OAS/RES
2250 Riverside Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0M2


an objection in writing stating the name and address of such person and indicating the nature of his/her objection, the grounds on which his/her objection is based and the nature of his/her interest in the matter of the intended expropriation.


Further information may be obtained from:


Terrence Tetreault
Regional Director OAS/RES
Public Works and Government Services
Canada
Pacific Region
800 Burrard Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V6Z 2V8


Phone (604)775-9365"

[please send a 'blind copy' of your objection to
<iabbey@alternatives.com> or <enviro@spec.bc.ca>
or fax to SPEC at (604)736-7115] , or call SPEC at (604)736-7732,
(604)351-1416
Thanks! - Norm Abbey, Nuclear Issues Campaigner

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