Save the Scarlet Macaw
Stop the Dam
Stop the Dam
If you have Real Player you just have to check out CBC St. John's interview with Stan Marshall. Listen to Stan's promise.
PARADISE BE DAMMED
CBC News: Disclosure investigates a big fuss about a small river and a hydro dam in Belize. What's at stake is the feeding and breeding area for a number of threatened and exotic animals. And what's really got environmentalists upset is the Canadian foreign aid dollars that are being used to justify the building of the dam.
The story airs Tuesday, April 2 at 9 p.m. on CBC Television. A complete web feature will also be available on the Disclosure website:
CBC News: Disclosure is a new investigative prime time program, which had its debut November 13, 2001, on the CBC Television Network.
You can find out more about PARADISE BE DAMMED today on Disclosurežs website:
Okay, here's what you can do next. Click on the Belize Zoo photo of the Scarlet Macaw (if you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat player, go to the link at the bottom of this page.) Clicking on the photo will download a Scarlet Macaw poster. Print off at least two. Tell Stan to keep his promise. Mail one copy to your local newspaper and the other to:
H. Stanley Marshall
President and CEO, Fortis, Inc.
P.O. Box 8837
Suite 1201, Fortis Building
139 Water Street
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1B 3T2
Fax-709-737-5307
On August 28 Fortis, through its subsidiary, Belize Electricity Limited, submitted its proposal to build Chalillo as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment, to the Department of Environment. The findings of the wildlife studies done by the Natural History Museum of London, include the fact that the Chalillo dam would harm the Meso-American biological Corridor, and threaten dozens of IUCN and CITES listed rare and endangered species. According to environmentalists, BEL has buried the NHM's findings in a 5-volume EIA, and concocted "mitigation measures" which are not supported by any reputable scientists' research.
