Published
October 20, 2006
Keywords
- Elizabeth May,
- Green Party,
- Sierra Club,
- Environmental Issues,
- Free Trade,
- NAFTA,
- Canadian Alliance,
- Climate Change,
- Biodiversity,
- Toxic pollutants,
- trade and environment
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Abstract
For more than 30 years, Elizabeth May has been a leading environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer. In the mid-1970s, Elizabeth successfully fought to protect Cape Breton forests from insecticide and herbicide spraying. In 1986, she served as a senior policy advisor to then federal Environment Minister Tom McMillan where she played a central role in the creation of several parks, including South Moresby. In 1989, after becoming the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada, Elizabeth May has worked on issues ranging from climate change, biodiversity, forests, toxic pollutants, and trade and the environment. She was awarded the UN Environment Program's Global 500 Award in 1990. She is the author of four books: Budworm Battles (1982), Paradise Won: The Struggle to Save South Moresby (1990), At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada's Forests (1998) and with Maude Barlow, Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada's Love Canal (2000).