Ecojustice to announce new wildlife lawsuit Wednesday

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Media Advisory - Sept. 25, 2012

VANCOUVER – Ecojustice will be joined by the Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club B.C. for a media briefing Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 10:30 a.m. PT. The groups will announce the launch of a new species at risk litigation against the federal government.

The case focuses on four species — the Pacific Humpback Whale, Nechako White Sturgeon, Marbled Murrelet and Southern Mountain Caribou — that live along the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and shipping route.

Ecojustice is bringing the case before the Federal Court on behalf of five environmental groups: the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace Canada, Sierra Club B.C., Wilderness Committee and Wildsight.

WHEN

September 26, 2012 10:30 a.m. PT

WHERE

Olympic Village seawall Athletes Way at Manitoba Street Vancouver, B.C.

Note: The briefing will be done scrum-style (no audioboard plug-in).

WHO

Devon Page, executive director | Ecojustice

Sean Nixon, staff lawyer | Ecojustice

Gwen Barlee, policy director | Wilderness Committee

George Heyman, executive director | Sierra Club B.C.

For more details, please contact

Kimberly Shearon, communications coordinator | Ecojustice