<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: teal; ">No</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> <span style="color: blue; ">Nukes</span> <span style="color: red; ">News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Mar. 12, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); ">Increasing the risk of nuclear war brings us back to climate change. Recent scientific research details the climatic impacts of nuclear warfare. The use of 100 weapons in nuclear warfare — just 0.03 per cent of the explosive power of the world's nuclear arsenal — would result directly in catastrophic climate change with many millions of tonnes of black, sooty smoke lofted high into the stratosphere. Needless to say the social and environmental impacts would be horrendous.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "> – </span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nuclear-does-not-have-the-answers-we-need-20100309-puao.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">Scott Ludlam</span></a></span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">Whether we like it or not, we all live near nuclear power plants. The mining of uranium and its processing and usage raises the background levels of radioactivity and this causes genetic damage worldwide. The good news is that nuclear is too expensive and too slow and the P.R fiction of the so-called "nuclear renaissance" put out by the industry will never happen. Real clean renewable energy will bypass the reactors, Obama's political decision notwithstanding. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">- <i>Wolfe Erlichman<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); ">Federal green strategy goes from bad to worse<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Thud. You hear that sound? That’s the sound of nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars landing on the doorstep of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Rudolph said the throne speech talked about the need to become a clean energy superpower and lead in green job creation, but the government is moving in the opposite direction. And nuclear power, he said, won’t achieve either objective in the near term. “There is nothing ‘shovel ready’ about investing in nuclear technology,” said Rudolph, pointing out the long timeframes required for regulatory approvals.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">… Still, as the Pembina Institute points out, the United States plans to outspend Canada 14-to-1 per capita on renewable energy and 2-to-1 on energy efficiency in fiscal 2010. Even then, there’s concern by some south of the border that the United States isn’t doing enough compared to China and some countries in Europe.<o:p></o:p></p><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/cleanbreak/article/776536--hamilton-federal-green-strategy-goes-from-bad-to-worse" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.thestar.com/business/cleanbreak/article/776536--hamilton-federal-green-strategy-goes-from-bad-to-worse</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; font-weight: normal; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(33, 88, 104); font-style: normal; ">Federal Budget takes the wind out of clean energy sails<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">"Basically it means the federal government has no policy to encourage renewable energy whatsoever," Estill said. "That's shocking, isn't it?"<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">The throne speech this week said the government will continue investment in clean energy technologies, but the federal budget suggests the Tory vision relies on nuclear energy, which will receive $300 million this year, and cutting emissions from the oil and gas sector.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">Critics say that nuclear power plants and technology to trap carbon emissions from the oilsands underground, an $800 million initiative announced in 2009, will take years to produce tangible environmental benefits. Renewable energy projects, in contrast, can be up and running just months after project approvals are completed.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/federalbudget/article/775909--budget-takes-the-wind-out-of-clean-energy-sails" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/federalbudget/article/775909--budget-takes-the-wind-out-of-clean-energy-sails</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(95, 73, 122); ">Tory budget ‘walks away' from renewable energy, environmentalist says<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">When the Canadian government put money into environmental initiatives to stimulate the flagging economy, it focused on capturing the carbon emissions from the oil and gas industries and building “green” infrastructure like hydro transmission lines, landfills and sewage systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">Other governments around the world, meanwhile, channelled their investments into the commercial development of renewable energy technologies. For some of them, this was not a new venture.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/budget/tory-budget-walks-away-from-renewable-energy-environmentalist-says/article1496915/?cid=art-rail-politics" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/budget/tory-budget-walks-away-from-renewable-energy-environmentalist-says/article1496915/?cid=art-rail-politics</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(79, 98, 40); font-style: normal; ">Greenwash of the Week: Going Nuclear</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(79, 98, 40); font-style: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">5 minute youtube video - </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">Bria and Robin take on the nuclear power industry. (a RAN Video)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tub1ROKTmzo&feature=channel" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tub1ROKTmzo&feature=channel</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); ">N.B. reactor upgrade delayed again</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">The $1.4-billion refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor in New Brunswick is continuing to miss deadlines set by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd<br>The federal and provincial governments have been locked in a war of words over who should cover the costs of the delays, which the New Brunswick government says are the fault of AECL.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">The Point Lepreau project is the world's first refurbishment of a Candu-6 facility, and AECL had hoped it would act as a model process that could be sold to other countries that purchased the same kind of reactor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/03/10/nb-aecl-point-lepreau-refurbishment-delay-258.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/03/10/nb-aecl-point-lepreau-refurbishment-delay-258.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); ">Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energy's Limits</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">In making the case for a rapid conversion away from heavily polluting energy sources like coal and nuclear power to cleaner generation, renewable energy advocates often confront the argument that their scheme is impossible due to the intermittent nature of sun and wind.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span lang="EN" style="color: black; ">But a groundbreaking <a href="http://www.ieer.org/reports/NC-Wind-Solar.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">study</a> out of North Carolina challenges that conventional wisdom: It suggests that backup generation requirements would be modest for a system based largely on solar and wind power, combined with efficiency, hydroelectric power, and other renewable sources like landfill gas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/08-3" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/08-3</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h3 style="margin-top: 10pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: red; ">B.C. fuels fight with Ontario over bioenergy<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="first-letter">B</span>ritish Columbia's quest to replace Ontario as the top destination for clean-energy investment dollars will now be headed up directly by Premier Gordon Campbell.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Ontario's new energy pricing strategy has left B.C. behind, with new contracts expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks under its "feed-in tariff" policy guaranteeing prices and long-term contracts for green power.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The B.C. Premier plans to introduce a new Clean Energy Act this spring to exploit his province's beetle-killed forests as a bioenergy alternative, and to open up new energy trading opportunities across Western Canada and into the U.S.<o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-fuels-fight-with-ontario-over-bioenergy/article1495726/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-fuels-fight-with-ontario-over-bioenergy/article1495726/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240); ">First FIT Projects cleared to proceed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The OPA has just announced its first release of approved FIT (feed-in-tariff) applications for capacity allocation exempt facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> 510 projects approved range from 10 kilowatts to 500 kilowatts and have a total generating capacity of 112 megawatts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">About 95 percent of the projects are for solar generation. The remaining projects are biogas (20), water (4), onshore wind (3) and biomass (1).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Notable on the list was Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada’s largest grocery retailer, which has been approved for FIT applications for rooftop solar installations on 136 of its Ontario stores. The grocery retailer will initially launch four pilot projects in select stores across the province and then evaluate the next phase of rollouts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The list of approved projects is available here:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/Storage/100/10900_Listing_of_CAE_FINAL.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/Storage/100/10900_Listing_of_CAE_FINAL.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The OPA press release is available here:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/Storage/100/10898_FIT_-_CAE_Event_News_Release_-_FINAL.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/Storage/100/10898_FIT_-_CAE_Event_News_Release_-_FINAL.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/loblaw-to-tap-ontario-program-with-solar-panels/article1495770/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/loblaw-to-tap-ontario-program-with-solar-panels/article1495770/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); font-style: normal; ">Ontario Reaches 46 MW of Solar PV in 2009<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) reports that 40 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) contracts were in commercial operation by the end of 2009 – about enough electricity for some 4,000 typical Ontario homes for the next 20 – 30 years. In a few short months Ontario has become a major market for solar PV in North America. <br><br><a href="http://www.altaterra.net/members/blog_view.asp?id=511177&post=93720" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.altaterra.net/members/blog_view.asp?id=511177&post=93720</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">--------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h1 style="margin-top: 24pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-left: 0cm; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-weight: bold; line-height: 26.25pt; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">Solar panel startup to lease residential rooftops<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">A Toronto startup has come up with a way to put solar power systems on the rooftops of new homes at no cost to the owners. In fact, the homeowner would get paid to let it happen.<o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/articlePrint/777492" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/articlePrint/777492</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(118, 146, 60); font-style: normal; ">Forget Nuclear</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(118, 146, 60); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">By Amory B. Lovins, Imran Sheikh, and Alex Markevich<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">Isn’t it time we forgot about nuclear power? Informed capitalists have. Politicians and pundits should too. After more than half a century of devoted effort and a half-trillion dollars of public subsidies, nuclear power still can’t make its way in the market. If we accept that unequivocal verdict, we can at last get on with the best buys first: proven and ample ways to save more carbon per dollar, faster, more surely, more securely, and with wider consensus. As often before, the biggest key to a sound climate and security strategy is to take market economics seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 102, 0); font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid467.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid467.php</a></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 102, 0); "></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 102, 0); "><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 102, 0); "><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">For those of you interested in learning more about nuke power, here are some </span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(49, 132, 155); font-style: normal; ">highly recommended books</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(49, 132, 155); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">In Mortal Hands</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "> - a cautionary history of the nuclear age by Stephanie Cooke, Bloomsbury, New York, 2009.<br><br><u>Atomic Accomplice</u> - how Canada deals in deadly deceit, by Paul McKay, privately published, 2009 (You can order this through <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a> - $20 plus $3 postage)<br><br><u>Uranium</u> - war, energy and the rock that shaped the world, by Tom Zoellner, Viking, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">Order them from a book store or better yet, get your local library to order them.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; ">Ontario’s </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); ">Green</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; "> Future: How Ontario Can Move Towards a 100% Renewable Electricity Grid<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; ">With keynote speaker Jack Gibbons of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; ">Monday March 15<sup>th</sup>, 5 - 6 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Room GB120 in the Galbraith Building, 35 St. George St. (just above College), U of T, Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Sponsored by: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; 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"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(112, 48, 160); ">The Power of Activism<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">A public forum on effective social change. Learn from successful social movements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Thursday March 18, 7:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, (St. George subway station) Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">With Lyn Adamson, Angela Bischoff and others<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Free. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">For more info: <a href="mailto:peaceworks@primus.ca" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">peaceworks@primus.ca</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; ">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(49, 132, 155); ">We can stop burning coal today! - <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/CoalPhaseOut-web.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(49, 132, 155); ">New leaflet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/phaseout%20progress%202010.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Ontario now has a large surplus of coal-free electricity</a> and according to the Independent Electricity System Operator it will stay that way between now and the official coal phase out deadline of 2014. That means that Ontario can stop burning coal today and avoid releasing millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases and air polluting emissions simply by putting our remaining dirty coal plants on standby reserve. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">This would be an excellent way to demonstrate to the world at the G20 Summit in June that Ontario is serious about meeting its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and that Canadians do care about climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">By not operating our coal plants except in the case of a true power emergency, we can proudly point to a major climate achievement when the world gathers on our doorstep in June!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Help us get the word out about this magnificent climate opportunity – order pamphlets, with postcards addressed to Premier McGuinty, to distribute to your friends, family and community calling for Ontario’s coal plants to be put on standby reserve immediately.<b> </b><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Order now</a> – <b><span style="color: rgb(95, 73, 122); ">they’re </span></b><span style="color: rgb(95, 73, 122); "> <b>FREE! </b></span> And thank you so much for helping us help the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; 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