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To: Honourable Sarah Guillemard Minister of Conservation and Climate

Protect Brokenhead River; Lake Winnipeg; And SouthEast Aquifer(s)

Help us stop CanWhite Sands from polluting the Brokenhead River, the SouthEast Carbonate Aquifer and Lake Winnipeg.

Urgent! We have until August 25th to send our email letters and concerns to the Honourable Sarah Guillemard Minister of Conservation and Climate and Jennifer Winsor, P.Eng. Environmental Engineer Environmental Approvals Branch Department of Sustainable Development.

Send email
https://www.organizemanitoba.org/silicasands-letter

In support of the local activist group Our Line in the Sand. Please sign and share petition widely.

Please follow and subscribe to Organize Manitoba for Updates, Events and Relevant Campaign information.

https://www.organizemanitoba.org/

Please join What the Frack Manitoba Facebook page for more information.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/644966189238633/?ref=share

Image Above: Acid run off from sand mining Black Island Manitoba. [Photo by Don Sullivan].

Why is this important?

CanWhite Sands has applied for a sand processing plant to take out 5.5 CFL football fields squared by 26 stories high of silica sand each year for the next 25 years. The oxygenizing of this silica will produce acid of a pH of 2.44 leaching heavy metals like arsenic. The drainage is to the Brokenhead river where this acid along with a polyacrylamide which breaks down in sunlight and acid to acrylamide a potent neurotoxin. This project will pollute the Brokenhead river contaminate the carbonate aquifer and kill lake Winnipeg. This environmental assessment plan ignores key aspects of the proposal that will lead to this damage.

Link to Government EAP:

gov.mb.ca/sd/eal/registries/6057canwhite/index.html

CWS Proposed Project Impacts to Brokenhead River - Dennis Analysis.pdf

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:f4976d99-cf02-4f89-8814-0505b2f4a1f4

Dennis LeNeveu's Correction of Free Press Article

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=139593417826957&id=115584813561151

Risk Assessment of CanWhite Sands Project “Dangerous to Eastern Watershed” By “Our Line in the Sand”- a local community group

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:d9881975-18b3-45d2-8198-a8f9126fa284

Updates

2020-08-20 15:00:30 -0400

1,000 signatures reached

2020-08-18 18:56:56 -0400

To: Jennifer Winsor, Environmental Engineer
URGENT New Email Needed RE: CWS CORP. – VIVIAN SAND PROCESSING FACILITY – FILE: 6057.00

https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/urgent-email-needed-re-canwhite-sands-corp-vivian-sand-processing-facility-file-6057-00?source=facebook-share-button

2020-08-14 20:59:00 -0400

Dennis LeNeveu's Correction of Free Press Article

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=139593417826957&id=115584813561151

2020-08-12 14:11:44 -0400

500 strong! Lets keep up the support for Our Line in the Sand Campaign. Please wait patiently as folks get the Organize Manitoba website up and running for more information how to support the campaign.

2020-08-12 14:03:38 -0400

500 signatures reached

2020-08-11 23:09:12 -0400

Don Sullivans article has reached over 1100 views in two days. Thanks! Keep up the support for Our Line in the Sand Campaign.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/don-sullivan/brokenhead-river-to-become-a-possible-toxic-dumping-ground-for-canwhite-sands-co/1411988385662041/

2020-08-09 22:05:47 -0400

100 signatures reached

2020-08-09 15:15:10 -0400

50 signatures reached

2020-08-09 12:29:39 -0400

25 signatures reached

2020-08-09 11:02:47 -0400

10 signatures reached