David Miller is an executive director for the National Audobon Society. He says his organization’s policy on Great Whale is still in force. “We remain concerned about Cree culture, the wildlife and the eco-system in the James Bay,” he told us. “It seems bad ideas don’t go away. They just wait for another day. I hope that we can nip this latest one in the bud before it goes too far.”

Managing editor Jeff Jones of the Albany, NY-based Green Sheet bulletin says an alert is going out to all the U.S. environmental activists. His July issue, due at the end of the month, will be carrying a story alerting interested parties about HQ’s new plans.

Doris Delany and Shelly Cath, two other prominent U.S. environmentalists, both say the old network is still there and people are not about to let the James Bay II issue drop.