Council of Canadians water campaigner Emma Lui is leading our campaign to save the Experimental Lakes Area program.
CBC reports, “Three-quarters of Canadians, including 60 per cent of those who voted Conservative in the last election, oppose the cuts to the Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario, according to an Environics poll released Thursday. ‘[Prime Minister Stephen] Harper is missing the mark, even with his own supporters,’ said Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians, the group that commissioned the poll.
Barlow has previously stated, “The Experimental Lakes Area is a world-class, living, outdoor laboratory where scientists have studied how to protect freshwater for decades. The Harper government is shaming Canadians in the eyes of the world and killing a major gift to water science at the very moment we are really beginning to understand the depth of the global water crisis.”
The Council of Canadians opposes the Harper government’s intention to close the Experimental Lakes Area and will be working with friends and allies in the months remaining before the scheduled closure date of April 2013 to save this scientific safeguard for freshwater lakes.
To add your name to the Coalition to Save ELA petition, please go to http://saveela.org/public-petition/. The CBC report can be read at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/18/pol-experimental-lakes-area-poll.html. Council of Canadians blogs on the campaign to save the ELA can be found at http://canadians.org/blog/?s=%22experimental+lakes+area%22.
