Media Advisory

November 14, 2007

For immediate release

McGuinty Has Yet to Answer Letters From Uranium Hunger Striker

After 40 days without eating, Donna Dillman remains camped out at the side of the road just north of Sharbot Lake, ON. 30,000 acres have been staked for uranium exploration 20 km west of her home. Her conviction that “We can go a long time without food, but that clean drinking water is essential to all life” encouraged her to begin a hunger strike on Thanksgiving Monday, October 8th. The 53 year-old grandmother remains positive that support from the general public, for an end to uranium exploration and mining in Eastern Ontario, is growing.

Dillman has mailed ten handwritten letters to McGuinty since October 22nd, most of them registered. Her letters to McGuinty and her blog can be found at www.ccamu.ca.
In an effort to conserve energy, she has chosen to end correspondence with the Premier, due to his lack of response.

“I wrote the letters so that McGuinty would be aware of my concerns for my family and the larger community and I know that they have achieved their objective. McGuinty knows I have written, he’s just not talking. What the citizens of Eastern Ontario need is an answer. ‘Premier McGuinty, do you support a moratorium on uranium exploration and mining in Eastern Ontario? If not, why?’”

Her final letter to McGuinty will be presented to his constituency office in Ottawa on Friday, November 16th at 11am. A Christian Peacemaker Team delegation will be holding a day of action from 9am-5pm. Handwritten letters, addressed to McGuinty, will be delivered one by one throughout the day.

Dillman will continue to not eat. She asks that concerned citizens write and call McGuinty to tell him about their concerns regarding uranium exploration and mining.

Contact person: CCAMU Lynn Daniluk 613-267-0539