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<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" color="#0043d1" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman; color: #0043d1"><b>No</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman"><b> </b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" color="#317778" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman; color: #317778"><b>Nukes</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman"><b> </b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" color="#ea7c57" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman; color: #ea7c57"><b>News</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Aug. 28, 2009</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#ea7c57" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman; color: #ea7c57"><b>Quote of the Week:</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">"What a disaster -- billions of dollars pissed away on nothing."</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Washington-based Nonproliferation Policy Education Centre, said of the Nevada Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository option which has been derailed.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#237b7c" style="font: 21.0px Times New Roman; color: #237b7c"><b>Calling all Torontonians!</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> Help us leaflet blitz the riding of St. Paul’s – central Toronto – with our new leaflet. <a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/OntarioOption_0709_v3.pdf"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/OntarioOption_0709_v3.pdf</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Let me know if you’ve got 3 hours to spare and I’ll set you up with a map/leaflets/direction. Do democracy!</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#237b7c" style="font: 21.0px Times New Roman; color: #237b7c"><b>Calling all Canadians!</b></font> Order multiple quantities of our new leaflet – for free! <a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/OntarioOption_0709_v3.pdf"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/OntarioOption_0709_v3.pdf</u></font></a> Help us put the pressure on the feds to not subsidize ON nukes – unless you want your taxes to go up.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Thank you!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">- <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 19.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#35c7f2" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #35c7f2"><b>Nuclear energy on downward trend worldwide</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" style="font: 21.0px Times New Roman"><b>There is no renaissance of nuclear energy</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">The share of nuclear energy in worldwide energy consumption is marginal and has been declining for several years. This is revealed in a study by independent experts of the energy and nuclear sector which was published by the German Federal Environment Ministry today.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">As Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said: "The renaissance of nuclear energy, much trumpeted by its supporters, is not taking place. The only thing frequently revived is the announcement. The study shows: the number of old nuclear power plants which are decommissioned worldwide is greater than the number of new ones taking up operation. Available resources, engineering performance and funds are not even enough to stop the downward trend, let alone increase the number of reactors. All the facts are in favour of phasing out this technology while at the same time expanding the use of renewable energies and energy efficiency, as this is a promising option for the future."</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.bmu.de/english/current_press_releases/pm/44840.php"><u>http://www.bmu.de/english/current_press_releases/pm/44840.php</u></a></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="7" color="#ee4fef" style="font: 32.0px Times New Roman; color: #ee4fef"><b>The search for a nuclear graveyard</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial"><b><i>40,000 metric tonnes of radioactive waste is stored at sites across Canada.</i></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><b>Wanted</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">: Friendly, open-minded community in need of jobs and a whack of infrastructure cash. Must be willing to play host to nuclear waste, perhaps until the end of time.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">More than six decades after joining the nuclear club, Canada is home to 22 nuclear reactors, 18 of them in operation, producing about 15 per cent of the country's electricity. Canada also has 40,000 metric tonnes of radioactive waste -- and counting.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">Now, Canada is preparing to get rid of its nuclear detritus once and for all -- by burying it.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-search-for-a-nuclear-graveyard/article1263189/"><u>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-search-for-a-nuclear-graveyard/article1263189/</u><u></u></a></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#ee4fef" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman; color: #ee4fef"><b><i>Background</i></b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">The human race has never successfully disposed of anything. The word "disposal" is undefined in scientific terms and should not be used. The only way we know to truly get rid of dangerous material is to destroy it, or to neutralize it. <b>We do not have the ability to do either with radioactive waste....</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Without a nuclear phase-out plan, burying nuclear waste under-ground can NOT make the world safe from the threat of a massive nuclear catastrophe caused by the dispersal of unburied waste. To understand why, see <a href="http://ccnr.org/K-9_syndrome.ppt"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>http://ccnr.org/K-9_syndrome.ppt</u></font></a> .</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Plans to bury irradiated nuclear fuel are really motivated by two desires: (1) to solve the industry's public relations problem so it can continue to produce more and more of the stuff, and (2) to get the irradiated fuel into one centralized location for reprocessing -- which means dissolving the irradiated fuel in nitric acid to allow for the extraction of the small percentage of plutonium contained in the irradiated fuel, leaving millions of gallons of high-level liquid radioactive waste behind to be re-solidified and eventually buried as radioactive waste.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">In my view, geologic disposal is not a plan to make the world safer from nuclear wastes, but a pretext to give the nuclear industry a chance to expand for centuries to come, making the world less safe by creating horrific security problems through the "plutonium economy", and making the radioactive waste problem more intractable.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">- By Dr. Gordon Edwards.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#772778" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #772778"><b>US's Yucca Mountain nuclear project in meltdown</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">In the Nevada Desert, the US Federal government has spent the last 22 years hollowing out the inside of a mountain – but the whole project has been a complete waste of time. In a staggeringly expensive about turn, the Yucca Mountain project is about to be canned.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0032e6" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6074701/USs-Yucca-Mountain-nuclear-project-in-meltdown.html"><u>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6074701/USs-Yucca-Mountain-nuclear-project-in-meltdown.html</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#277726" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #277726"><b>A New Sound: Green For All</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">2 min. video</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">The dirty-energy economy has brought pollution and poverty to too many. But a clean-energy economy can bring opportunity, health, and wealth to struggling communities.<b> </b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#277726" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #277726"><b>Clean-energy jobs such as weatherizing homes, installing solar panels, and manufacturing wind turbines will put people to work in their own communities.</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNszFwmSg2Y"><u>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNszFwmSg2Y</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 19.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#001974" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #001974"><b>Coal plant closures minister's priority</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Renewable energy projects can create 50,000 jobs in Ontario and help the province finally shut down its coal power plants, Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman told municipal leaders here on Wednesday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">"In every community you find people who are opposed," said Smitherman. "Some will express opposition. But support for green energy is very, very, very high."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Ken Kozlik, chief operating officer of the Independent Electricity System Operator, said power consumption has fallen so dramatically at industrial plants that some power suppliers have had to pay the operator to continue pumping power into the grid.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Ontario's all-time high power use was 27,000 megawatts, but this year it has fallen to as low as 10,700 megawatts, where the province's power consumption was in 1997.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=3bba87c4-33ba-452f-a607-8bec9041903d"><u>http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=3bba87c4-33ba-452f-a607-8bec9041903d</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#f13934" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #f13934"><b>'Dirty timebomb' ticking in Russian nuclear dump threatens Europe</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">20,000 discarded uranium fuel rods stored in the Arctic Circle are corroding. The possible result? Detonation of a massive radioactive bomb experts say could rival the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. <br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><br> <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/dirty-timebomb-ticking-in-russian-nuclear-dump-threatens-europe-14465525.html"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><u>http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/dirty-timebomb-ticking-in-russian-nuclear-dump-threatens-europe-14465525.html</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#772778" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #772778"><b>Going solar to heat water a way to beat energy price woes</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">In countries like Greece and Israel, Barber says, solar water heating systems are mandatory. He's encouraged by a pilot project in Markham where some are being installed with the municipality picking up half the cost.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">"China is the number one producer and user of these systems. They have enough of these on houses over there to eliminate the need for 40 nuclear reactors."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Barber thinks the $26 billion it will cost to build a new nuclear reactor in Ontario could be better spent on alternatives,</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">"For $26 billion you could put one of these on almost every house in Canada and you'd be further ahead than nuclear. There are some government incentives but not nearly enough to make them attractive yet. They will definitely save a lot of money and greenhouse emissions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">"It's a pretty simple design, a new design made for colder climates."</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.shieldmedia.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=18477&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1944&hn=shieldmedia&he=.ca"><u>http://www.shieldmedia.ca/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=18477&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1944&hn=shieldmedia&he=.ca</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#f13934" style="font: 27.0px Times New Roman; color: #f13934"><b>Radioactive cows: vandals hit ads touting nuclear power in Alberta</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Bruce Power, an Ontario company exploring nuclear development in the province, has put up billboards pitching the power source as a clean energy alternative in four Alberta communities.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">But one of the company’s ads recently was painted over with a glowing, dead cow with a nuclear symbol branded on its rump and the slogan “A New Brand of AB Beef.” There was also a radioactive symbol painted in the “o” in Bruce Power’s name.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><a href="http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/alberta/2009/08/13/10452671.html"><u>http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/alberta/2009/08/13/10452671.html</u><u></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier New" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier New"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#ee4fef" style="font: 24.0px Times New Roman; color: #ee4fef"><b>PEDAL FOR THE PLANET WELCOMES RIDERS TO TORONTO! </b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">This Thursday, September 3rd Pedal for the Planet welcomes riders from across the country to Toronto at 4 pm at Queeen's Park. The event includes speakers, entertainment, Oxfam Canada stunts, and an energetic send off for riders heading on to Ottawa to carry on our climate change message.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Pedal for the Planet is a chance for individuals, organizations and communities to join together, to ensure that Canada does its fair share to tackle the climate crisis. Using bikes, trains and other modes of green transport, Pedal for the Planet will demonstrate our personal commitment to change, and relay our expectations for a fair Copenhagen climate treaty on to Ottawa.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#ee4fef" style="font: 24.0px Times New Roman; color: #ee4fef"><b>SISTERS ON THE PLANET</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">KYOTOplus and Pedal for the Planet present <b>Sisters on the Planet</b>, an inspiring new film by Oxfam on the impact of climate change on women in developing countries. 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