YANCOAL POTASH: REGINA - Press Conf. June 6, 2016

YANCOAL POTASH: REGINA - Press Conf. June 6, 2016

Postby Oscar » Tue May 31, 2016 9:06 am

PRESS RELEASE - QU’APPELLE VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION (QVEA)*

PRESS CONFERENCE ON YANCOAL PROJECT - MONDAY JUNE 6, 2016 10 am


The Leader of the Opposition and Party Leaders from the Green, Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties invited to attend QVEA’s June 6th Press Conference on Yancoal Project.

On June 6th at 10 am at Regina’s Copper Kettle restaurant the QVEA will hold a Press Conference to release its 5-point Position Paper on the Yancoal potash solution mine proposed near Southey.

June 6th is the last day that public comments can be submitted on Yancoal’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

The QVEA has major concerns about the lack of time for public involvement, long-term water security, implications of deep wastewater injection, potash revenues, and the downstream impacts.

The QVEA will be joined by NDP Opposition Leader Trent Wotherspoon, Green Leader Victor Lau, Progressive Conservative Leader Rick Swenson and Liberal Leader Darrin Lamoureux or their designates who will raise their own concerns about the Yancoal project.

The QVEA wants to see a broad-based, multi-party conversation about the need to protect Saskatchewan’s long-term water security as well as protecting the ecologically- and recreationally-vulnerable Qu’Appelle Valley.

QVEA organizing committee members, Jim Harding, Lorna Evans and Randy Lebell, will present the QVEA concerns about the Yancoal Project, the party leaders will be asked to make their own comments, and the press conference will then be open for questions from the media.

For further information contact:

Jim Harding - 306-332-4492 or Randy Lebell- 306-331-6231

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· The newly-formed QVEA sponsored the all-party, all-candidates meeting (four parties attended) during the 2016 provincial election to discuss the protection of the Qu’Appelle Valley. The QVEA was formed in the aftermath of the huge valley outcry over Regina’s ongoing releases of untreated sewage into the Lower Qu’Appelle.


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