Sludge Watch ==> June 19/20 Protest AntiSmog GlobalWarming ShutDown Ont Coal plants

[Paradigm Shifters]

Please circulate widely

 Let's keep holding Mcguinty's feet to the coal-fired heat

Please come out to very important PSEA upcoming Direct Actions.
We have together done a lot -much more  needs doing.  Premier McGuinty will
be at the Ontario-US  largest conference on  Environment/Energy June
19-20 http://www.eeco2007.com/index.cfm?section=events#omb

We will be there to greet them. Details below.

Dalton McGuinty will be giving keynote speech during lunch hour on June 20
'07 - Energy Minister Dwight Duncan will be giving keynote speech lunchtime
June 19th as well as Environement Minister Laurel Broten will be there.

Also don't forget Tuesday June 12 Vigil 10-11am - see below.

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance - PSEA
Contact Person: Ivona Vujica, Coordinator
psea4earth at gmail.com

Tuesday June 19 @12PM
Protest Coal-Fired & PEC plants
Anti-Smog/Global Warming/Shut Down Ont. Coal-fired plants
metro toronto convention centre, Front Street
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance


 Wednesday June 20 @12PM
Protest Coal-Fired & PEC plants
Anti-Smog/Global Warming/Shut down Ont. Coal-fired plants
metro toronto convention centre, Front Street
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance




  ANSWERS ARE NOT IN SMOKESTACKS

 "We want ... Better Solutions to Global Warming and Climate Change than
Nukes and Fossil Fuels. "

 It's Tuesday - Time to Protect the Planet  Toronto Star, May 23, '07
B6 http://www.thestar.com/News/article/216687



 Terminator Gunning to Save Lives, Toronto Star, May 31, '07
  http://www.thestar.com/article/219810

 Idling vehicles belie green commitment,  Toronto Star June 3, '07
 http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/220673


A short history of smog in Toronto, Toronto Star June 10, '07
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/223619 ,


Please come out to
 VIGIL / INFO PICKET
and/or send a letter (sample below)
Re: GLOBAL WARMING AND SHUTTING DOWN ONTARIO COAL PLANTS
http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/GLOBALWARMINGANDSHUTTINGDOWNONTCOALPLANTS

McGuinty, -----  shut them down!!!

TUESDAY  JUNE 12   10 - 11am
Ontario Power Authority building
SW corner of University and College, Toronto
(Check NOW listings*)


   -

   *Greenhouse gases up 90% from Ontario coal plants from 1995-2005 (Tor
   Star, Feb 1/07)*
   -

   *Closing down Ontario coal stacks amounts to taking all the cars and
   small trucks off our streets *
   -

   *McGuinty government says that "the annual costs of coal-fired
   generation, including health and environmental costs, ... [is] significantly
   higher than other electricity generation options."*


   - The Ontario Power Authority is recommending that in 2010, Ontario
   Power Generation should export 93% of its coal-fired electricity to the
   U.S. (meaning we get all the toxins, illness and have to account for
   the greenhouse gasses while the US gets our power.  McGuinty promised in
   2003 to export zero amount of power to the US. from Ontario's coal-fired
   plants.)

  Premier Dalton McGuinty's # 1 Election Promise was to close Ont.'s coal
fired power plants by 2007. *In fact, his exact words were, "Come hell or
highwater, Ontario coal plants will close by 2007."* Let's hold him to that
promise. *Nanticoke* i*s Canada's # 1 Polluter and Greenhouse Gas
Emitter*and N.
America's largest coal plant. It's killed thousands and made even more
ill. Cancer
now surpasses heart disease as the # 1 killer. Tell McGuinty to keep his
promise. The health of all Ontarians demand it.

Also tell Premier McGuinty to stop replacing smokestack with a smokestack.
Tell him  to stop the proposed giant methane plant in the Portlands that is
going ahead without a full environmental assessment and is opposed by Mayor
David Miller, most local politicians, the Board of Health etc.


LETTER TO QUEEN'S PARK

We thank all people from Ontario and beyond who sent their advocacy letters.


  If you have not had a chance, please write Premier Dalton McGuinty to urge
him to close down Ontario Coal Plants OR  take a second and email the
following lsample letter (below) to:

Dalton McGuinty  dmcguinty.mpp.co at liberal.ola.org

*CC* to

John Tory, MPP    john.tory at pc.ola.org
Howard Hampton, MPP   hhampton-qp at ndp.on.ca

*BCC* to

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance  psea4earth at gmail.com


 Premier Dalton McGuinty:

Your  # 1 Election Promise was to close Ont.'s coal fired power plants by
2007. In fact, your exact words were, "Come hell or highwater, Ontario coal
plants will close by 2007."

We are holding you to your promise.

Nanticoke is Canada's # 1 Polluter and Greenhouse Gas Emitter and N.
America's largest coal plant. It's killed thousands and made even more ill.
Cancer now surpasses heart disease as the # 1 killer.  Please keep your
promise. The health of all Ontarians demands it.

Also, we are asking you to stop the proposed giant methane plant in the
Portlands that is going ahead without a full environmental assessment and is
opposed by Mayor David Miller, most local politicians, the Board of Health
etc.

   -

   *Greenhouse gases up 90% from Ontario coal plants from 1995-2005 (Tor
   Star, Feb 1/07)*
   -

   *Closing down Ontario coal stacks amounts to taking all the cars and
   small trucks off our streets *
   -

   *McGuinty government says that "the annual costs of coal-fired
   generation, including health and environmental costs, ... [is] significantly
   higher than other electricity generation options."*


   - The Ontario Power Authority is recommending that in 2010, Ontario
   Power Generation should export 93% of its coal-fired electricity to the
   U.S. (meaning we get all the toxins, illness and have to account for
   the greenhouse gasses while the US gets our power.  McGuinty promised in
   2003 to export zero amount of power to the US. from Ontario's coal-fired
   plants.

 Sincerely,
NAME
ADDRESS OR CITY

*
*

***Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance  - PSEA*

*Contact: Ivona Vujica, Coordinator
*

* unpaid / non-funded network of activists, students, academics, Aboriginal
etc. *
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