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Posted Fri Mar 23 2012: from
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Don't ease fish protection rules, PM urged by 625 scientists http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1332527213
In a letter sent Thursday to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Fisheries and Oceans Minister Keith Ashfield, a group of 625 scientists urged the government to abandon changes to the Fisheries Act outlined in an internal government document leaked late last week.
The document suggested the act is to be revised so Ottawa would be responsible for fish, but not their surrounding habitat.
The act currently requires projects such as oil pipeline and road culvert construction to show their plans will preserve fish habitat.
"Removing those provisions … would basically give proponents of projects license to do anything they pleased," said David Schindler, the University of Alberta ecologist who is the lead author of the letter....
Schindler said the signatories of his letter include many national and international prize-winning scientists and the number of them supporting the letter indicates how important habitat protection is.
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