Millvale – The Green Party of PEI is shocked that Premier Ghiz is giving close to $2 million to a company that was all but run out of the province in 2008.
Atlantec Bioenergy tried to set up a sugar beet ethanol plant in PEI but faced strong public opposition and a government that wouldn’t agree to mandating 10% ethanol content in PEI gas without public hearings. The company walked away saying it would try Ontario instead.
Since then, said Green party leader Sharon Labchuk,...
Millvale - Green Party of PEI leader Sharon Labchuk extended congratulations to the New Zealand Greens today on their best election result ever. With 13 Members of Parliament, up from 9, and 11% of the vote, the Greens are firmly established as New Zealand’s third party.
In a referendum on the voting system, New Zealanders today affirmed they will keep proportional representation (PR), and in particular they chose to retain the Mixed Member (MMP) system. In 1996 New Zealand...
Milvale – The Green Party of PEI congratulates the newly-formed P.E.I. Reproductive Rights Organization for bringing attention to the province’s denial of abortion services and how this penalizes Island women.
Anti-abortion laws were ruled unconstitutional and struck down in Canada in 1988 but Island women have never had access to abortion services in the province. PEI is the only province in Canada that forces women to leave the province to have an abortion. While abortions are...
Millvale – Building bypass highways to improve safety is the least cost effective response to preventing traffic accidents, charges the Green Party of PEI. Transportation Minister Robert Vessey is proposing that bypass highways through Strathgartney Provincial Park, and in Crapaud and Tryon, are necessary to improve highway safety and speed up traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway.
The Green Party has reviewed reports on rural road safety from Transport Canada, the World Health...
Millvale – The Green Party of PEI is calling on Premier Ghiz to abandon plans to build a highway through Strathgartney Provincial Park. The province released for the first time maps and other information yesterday confirming the route for the controversial “re-alignment” of the Trans Canada highway will plough right through the popular natural area, splitting the park in two.
“I’m in shock,” said Green leader Sharon Labchuk. “We expect the worst from this government when it...
Charlottetown – The Green Party of PEI announced today its policy on health promotion and illness prevention. PEI governments have focused on treating acute health problems after they arise, said the Green Party, and failed to place sufficient priority on preventing illness in the first place. Greens subscribe to the World Health Organization’s definition of health as “a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
The...
Charlottetown - The Green Party today released a policy statement on Animal Welfare.
“We believe all species have inherent worth irrespective of their value to humans,” said Green Party leader Sharon Labchuk. “Our goal is to make PEI a province where we can be proud of the respect and empathy that we show not only to each other but to all living beings.”
The party believes this is best achieved through a combination of education at all levels, incentives and support...
Charlottetown – The Green Party of PEI announced today that a Green government would enact a Drinking Water Protection Act.
The aim of the Act is to protect groundwater from pollutants by controlling the direct and indirect discharges of known contaminants into groundwater. The party said government must do a better job of protecting drinking water in a province that is 100% dependant on groundwater. Virtually all PEI groundwater is contaminated with nitrates, mainly from...
Charlottetown – The Green Party of PEI is calling on both Premier Robert Ghiz and former Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning Richard Brown to hold public meetings in their districts to answer questions from voters about allegations of bribery and fraud. Brown was removed from this position in 2009 in the midst of a firestorm of accusations.
The RCMP’s Commercial Crime Unit is investigating claims by three former civil servants that senior government officials managing the...
Charlottetown - Marion Pirch will represent the Green Party of PEI in District 5 Vernon River - Stratford. Born in Earnscliffe and living in Hermitage, Marion has witnessed the transition of her community from a group of families, caring for their own farms and each other, to one dominated by an agriculture industry focused on intensive monoculture.
“In days past, we would send cream from the farm, and my husband Karl would supplement our income by hauling cream for our...
Charlottetown – Donald Killorn will represent the Green Party of PEI in District 6 Stratford - Kinlock
Born and raised on Prince Edward Island, Donald received his B.Sc. in Biology from UPEI in 2004. While working towards his degree, he was employed by the Town of Stratford as a Watershed Improvement Officer. It was his first exposure to the destruction of Island waterways.
“The eutrophication was already at an unhealthy level, excess...
Charlottetown – The Green Party of PEI is calling on Islanders to lobby CBC to change a decision that, for the first time, would exclude all party leaders from the televised leader debate except the Liberal and Conservative leaders. The Greens are also calling on Premier Robert Ghiz and Opposition Leader Olive Crane to boycott the debate unless all parties are included.
Green Party leader Sharon Labchuk said a CBC producer informed her that only two parties meet new...
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