Path: utzoo!telly!lethe!berner!yunccn!lorrilee
From: lorrilee@yunccn.UUCP (Lorrilee McGregor)
Newsgroups: nccn.issues,can.general
Subject: Attikamek-Montagnais Protest PCB Plan
Keywords: attikamek montagnais pcb baie comeau mulroney
Message-ID: <2324@yunccn.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 14:44:57 GMT
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Organization: York University, Toronto Canada
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The Attikamek-Montagnais have joined in the growing campaign " to
prevent Quebec from storing PCB's at a power-generating station near
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's home town of Baie Comeau."

'"Our position is categoric - we will not accept them," Ghislain Picard,
vice-president of the 11,000 member Attikamek-Montagnais band said
yesterday. 

"The North Shore has been exploited over the past 50 years with its
minerals and forests stripped away.  Now they want to throw us back all
the garbage and that's something we don't appreciate." '

"Nearly 2,000 Attikamek-Montagnais live on the Betsiamites reserve,
about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the proposed storage site for the
St. Basile wastes.  Picard said many Indians rely on land in the area
for trapping, fishing and hunting."

"The site is also "right in the middle" of land claimed by the band,
said Picard, who has not ruled out enlisting the support of other native
groups in Quebec."