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Fundy
Baykeeper Log #11
July 25, 2005
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Spoon Island Update
The Fundy Baykeeper investigated into
rumours that Spoon Island in Oak Bay was slated to be clear cut. The
Fundy Baykeeper visited the area by boat and video taped the island.
The owners of the island were contacted by the media and denied that
the island was to be cut.
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LNG Update
With two LNG terminals proposed for Mill
Cove near Robbinston, Maine (just across the St. Croix estuary from St.
Andrews) and the other at Split Rock, Pleasant Point, Maine, the Fundy
Baykeeper has started a Stop LNG campaign. At Thursday's Farmers
Market in St. Andrews, we set up a table and distributed Stop LNG
flyers, which received great support from both residents and
tourists. A reporter from ATV News in Saint John interviewed MP
Greg Thompson as well as Fundy Baykeeper
David Thompson at the market on July 21. The Baykeeper is also
promoting a letter-writing
campaign to show cabinet ministers that our community opposes the
passage of LNG tankers through Head Harbour Passage. Names,
titles, and addresses/fax numbers of cabinet ministers can be found on
the Baykeeper site in the campaigns section. Write a letter and show
your opposition to the proposals. Also keep an eye out for Stop LNG
buttons, which are being produced.
Artists to-scale conception of an LNG tanker going through
Head Harbour Passage (Courtesy: Joyce Morell)
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Baykeeper Monitoring Aquaculture
Debris
 More aquaculture debris
has turned up on Back Beach, Pendleton Island, a nature preserve owned by the
Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Sections of two large aquaculture cages now rest on the shore of Back
Beach along with a new assortment of rope entanglements, pieces of
Styrofoam, and assorted plastics. Also, large nylon sacks were found
embedded into the beach, and a huge net embedded in the beach that was
reported to both the Provincial Government and the aquaculture industry
the last two years, has yet to be removed. The Baykeeper has alerted to
the marine debris problem on our beaches, and photographs submitted by
Baykeeper were published in the July 25, 2005 Telegraph Journal.
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