NOTE: If anyone would like a copy of this fax, please email Essential Action ([email protected]) your mailing address. Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard on this for so long! -- Ann Leonard
Ministere De L' Environnement
Republique D' Haiti
181, Haut Turgeau, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Expedie par Telecopie
TO: Mr. Kenny Bruno, Greenpeace
FROM: Ingenieur Carlo Lafond, Directeur General, Ministere de l' Environnement
DATE: 9 Octobre 1998
MESSAGE:
Dear Mr. Kenny Bruno,
This correspondence is written to congratulate you and all the courageous collaborators for the permanent combat to the REMOVAL OF THE DEPOSITED WASTE IN GONAIVES, HAITI (PHILADEPLHIA INCINERATOR ASH) since 1998.
We are very pleased and grateful to you and we inviter you to participate as an expert to these operations of removal, according to the following Agenda:
* Equipement mobilized and Start of Excavation: by 10/8/98
* Projected Excavation completion: by 10/15/98
* Estimated Time of arrival, Virginie USA Port: by 10/25/98 [NOTE:
destination is now unconformed - A.L.]
* Discharge completeion in Virginie landfill site: by 10/30/98
We are still keeping in mind all the very relevant efforts you made to permit this dream coming true. We look forward to working with you in the future for the safeguard of the Environment: ours!
Best regards and thanks a lot,
Carl LAFON, Ing. Gest.
Directeur General
CC: Ms Deborah Rephan
Ms Anne Leonard, Essential Action
Ms Wendy Grieter, Environmental Agency
Ms. Beatrice Francis, Mairie Philadelphia, Tel. (215) 242-0777 [NOTE:
This is a mistake; Beatrice isn't from the Mayor's office! - A.L.]
Mr Ehrl Lafontant, HCP
Ar Alex Beauchamps, COHPEDA