Media Advisory

October 3, 2007

For immediate release

LOCAL GRANDMOTHER STARTS HUNGER STRIKE TO RAISE AWARENESS

On Thanksgiving Monday, Oct. 8th, Lanark area resident Donna Dillman will begin a hunger strike in a personal effort to affect a moratorium on uranium exploration and mining in Eastern Ontario. She will camp out outside the gate at the blockaded site at Robertsville, 12 km. north of Sharbot Lake on Hwy #509, or on Parliament Hill (if she is able to get a permit), and will remain until the moratorium is in place.

While on book tour last month, Donna visited several tailing sites in Elliot
Lake and came home convinced that she must act. The tailings - the waste left behind after mining - stretches on for miles, in some cases filling lakes, and rising 30 or more feet into the air. The waste remains radioactive, and turns the water passing through it into sulphuric acid. According to the environmental assessment conducted on the tailing sites, they must be looked after "in perpetuity."

"We can live for a long time without food, but clean water is essential to all life," says the 53 year-old mother of four, who last year witnessed 'hands-on' the birth of her youngest granddaughter. That further fueled her desire to act on behalf of grandchildren everywhere. "Sooner or later,"

Donna says, "we will have to learn how to live responsibly within planetary limits. I am taking this action to say that we should accept that responsibility, rather than leaving it for our grandchildren to deal with."

"I am hoping that people will get behind me and demand this moratorium, so that our future in Eastern Ontario, and elsewhere, remains viable. To help get the message out, please write to your MPP and MP, your local newspapers, talk to your friends and neighbours, blog it up, and support the groups that are dedicating their time to keeping the water we drink and the air we breath safe for generations to come."

Contact: Donna Dillman at 613-259-9988

Contact: Lynn Daniluk at 613-267-0539

Directions to the Protest Site

From Ottawa go West bound on Hwy #7.
Just past Sharbot Lake turn right on the #509.
It is ten minutes North on #509 past the Ardoch Rd.
Do not turn off the #509, you will run right into it.
You can't miss it! It is very colourful with
lots of flags, signs and tents.

From Toronto go East bound on Hwy #7.
Past the Sharbot Lake Provincial Park,
turn left on the #509.
Follow the above directions from there.

Visit the CCAMU website and Donna’s Blog at www.ccamu.ca.

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