Federal Vancouver Green Party candidates hold press conference today in Vancouver to discuss English Bay fuel spill

(OTTAWA) - Federal Vancouver Green Party candidates, Claire Martin, Lynne Quarmby and Ken Melamed will host a press conference today in Vancouver to discuss the impact of the English Bay fuel spill.

Speaking at the Conference are:

· Claire Martin, Green Party candidate for North Vancouver

· Lynne Quarmby, the Green Party’s Science Policy Critic and candidate for Burnaby North – Seymour

· Ken Melamed, the Green Party’s Finance Critic and candidate for West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country

Councillor Adriane Carr, Leader of the Vancouver Green Party, will also attend.

 

Event Details

Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015

Time: 9:30 a.m. (PDT)

Location: English Bay, 1700 Beach Ave., Vancouver, B.C.

 

For additional information or to arrange an interview, contact:

Julian Morelli
Director of Communications
Green Party of Canada
cell: (613) 614 4916
office: (613) 562 4916 (224)
julian.morelli@greenparty.ca

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Backgrounder 

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“In the last few years, over a chorus of outrage and objections by British Columbians, Stephen Harper closed the Kitsilano Coast Guard station, the Vancouver Environment Canada station of Environmental Emergencies and the Marine Mammal Contaminants Programme within DFO,” – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich – Gulf Islands.

“Let's hope that this is a wake up call. However bad this might be, a bitumen spill would be worse, much worse.” – Lynne Quarmby