Environmental Groups Say Funding Delays From Ottawa Causing Crisis
Posted on: Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 15:15 CDT
HALIFAX (CP) - Environmental organizations in Nova Scotia are decrying funding delays from Ottawa, with one comparing the environment minister to a "slum landlord" for refusing to fix a problem that is reaching across Canada.
Nine groups, including the Ecology Action Centre, Clean Nova Scotia and the provincial branch of the Sierra Club, held a news conference in Halifax today to describe how they have been affected as they wait for money that normally arrives in April.
Tamara Lorincz, executive director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network, says she has been working without pay for four months, and affiliated groups in Ontario and Prince Edward Island have had to lay off staff.
Lorincz says while her group has been told money is coming, no agreements have been signed.
Environment Minister John Baird's office has said the delays aren't unusual, but Stephen Hawboldt of the Clean Annapolis River Project says the past two years mark the first time in two decades that funding has been delayed.
Gretchen Fitzgerald of the Sierra Club says Baird is acting like a "slum landlord," because even when funding does arrive, it won't be enough to pay for the important work done by such groups.
Source: Canadian Press
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