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To: Public Health Officers

e Conduct comprehensive health surveys in coastal municipalities and regional districts
where there are pulp mills, and explore possible pollution-associated linkages.

® Lobby Health and Welfare Canada to expand its research into the effects that various
compounds used in the production of pulp and paper have on hurnan health and the
environment.

To: schools and youth groups

* Undertake intertidal quadrat studies on a longitudinal basis in each school district on
Georgia Strait, sharing the results with Environment Canada and the BC Ministry of the
Environment.

To: BC Federation of Labour and its affiliate members

° Consider funding graduate, undergraduate and privaie studies into the impacts of pulp
mill pollution.

* Lobby Environment Canada and the BC Ministry of the Environment to conduct an
environmental impact stucly on the toxicity of chlorates and other compounds in puip mill
effluent and emissions, and their effects on human health and the marine ecology.

To: pulp and paper industry

° Work with government agencies to initiate retraining and job placement programs for
workers facing job loss due to the costs of implementing environmentally-sound produc-
tion techniques.

* Take immediate steps to move towards organochlorine-free pulp and paper products.
Set a precedent: become the first to offer a full range of unbleached and recycled products.

SEWAGE

The discharge of raw and inadequately treated sewage into the coastal waters of BC and
into the rivers, creeks and streams that flow into them, is ecologically unacceptable and
should be prohibited. Since jurisdiction over BC coastal waters is the responsibility of two
governments, they must work in accord to enforce existing regulations, and where these
are inadequate, to develop new and improved regulations. Since the Straits of Georgia and
Juan de Fuca are contiguous with US waters, it is vital that close cooperation also be
established between Canada and the US.

To: BC Ministry of the Environment and Environment Canada

° Establish and enforce legislation governing the treatment of all sewage discharges into
coastal waters and into rivers and streams that flow into coastal waters.

¢ Establish receiving water quality standards designed to maintain coastal waters in a
healthy state for marine organisms, and where applicable, to recreational standards.

° Following the success of solar-aquatic septic sewage treatment systems which use
plants, snails and fish to treat sewage in Maine, develop a cost-sharing formula which will
encourage the development of a pilot solar-aquatic plant here in BC.