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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span style='color:blue'>Nukes</span> <span style='color:red'>News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>May 14</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Hello OCAA contacts and volunteers…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Got a few hours to spare for the <b><span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>planet</span></b>?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As you know our most recent campaign is calling for a <b><span style='color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>ramped up coal phase-out</span></b><span style='color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> </span>in Ontario, specifically by the G-8/20 which is June 25-27. It’s the perfect opportunity for Premier McGuinty to get global and local recognition for the most progressive climate initiative on the continent, and it would show the world that Ontarians do care about the environment!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We’re distributing this leaflet, which includes a <b><span style='color:#C00000'>postcard</span></b><span style='color:#C00000'> </span>to McGuinty: <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/CoalPhaseOut-web.pdf">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/CoalPhaseOut-web.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Can you help us distribute them? </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Let me know if you can spare some time and I’ll fill you in on how you can help.<b> </b></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#000000;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><span style='color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Council: Shut Down Coal Now!</span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Hamilton City council is asking the provincial government to shut down coal-fired electricity plants in Ontario including the massive one in Nanticoke. Councillors were told this week that a sharp drop in electricity demand along with rapidly expanding sustainable energy production means the McGuinty government can accomplish its planned coal phase-out four years early.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.viewmag.com/13003-Council%3A+Shut+Down+Coal+Now!.htm">http://www.viewmag.com/13003-Council%3A+Shut+Down+Coal+Now!.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Please contact <a href="mailto:Dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org">Premier McGuinty</a> and asked him to phase-out coal now (and cc <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">me</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Coal's Toxic Sludge</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:.15pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#202020;letter-spacing:.15pt'>Big coal has spent millions of dollars over the past year touting the virtues of what the industry calls "clean coal," but it's no secret that coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. When you burn it, coal releases monstrous quantities of deadly compounds and gases — and it all has to go somewhere. The worst of the waste — heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium and mercury, all of which are highly toxic — are concentrated in the ash that's left over after coal is burned or in the dirty sludge that's scrubbed from smokestacks. Each year, coal plants in the U.S. churn out nearly 140 million tons of coal ash — more than 900 pounds for every American — generating the country's second-largest stream of industrial waste, surpassed only by mining. If you piled all the coal ash on a single football field, it would create a toxic mountain more than 20 miles high.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=%5b3351,94939%5d?RS_show_page=0">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=[3351,94939]?RS_show_page=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><span style='color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>The Crisis Comes Ashore</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Why the oil spill could change everything.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>By Al Gore<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The continuing undersea gusher of oil 50 miles off the shores of Louisiana is not the only source of dangerous uncontrolled pollution spewing into the environment. Worldwide, the amount of man-made CO2 being spilled every three seconds into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding the planet equals the highest current estimate of the amount of oil spilling from the Macondo well every day. Indeed, the average American coal-fired power generating plant gushes more than three times as much global-warming pollution into the atmosphere each day—and there are over 1,400 of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-crisis-comes-ashore">http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-crisis-comes-ashore</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>In the aftermath of the oil spill disaster, voters overwhelmingly support a comprehensive clean energy bill…. Voters understand the dangers of our dependence on oil. Now, they’re ready to hold Congress accountable.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/10/oil-spill-poll-energy-bill-climate/#more-24783">http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/10/oil-spill-poll-energy-bill-climate/#more-24783</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Left in the dust<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><b>AREVA’s radioactive legacy in the desert towns of Niger. <o:p></o:p></b></p><p>In one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking last in the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where more than 40% of children are underweight for their age, water and access to improved water sources is scarce and almost three quarters of the population are illiterate1, the French nuclear giant AREVA extracts precious—and deadly—natural resources, earning billions for its Fortune 5002 corporation, and leaving little behind but centuries of environmental pollution and health risks for the citizens of Niger.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/Left-in-the-dust/">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/Left-in-the-dust/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=marrontitulobig1><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nuclear Power Nearly as Dangerous as Weapons, Critics Say</span></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><span style='color:black'><br><span class=texto11><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The quest for nuclear disarmament is likely to fail if governments and corporations continue to promote nuclear technologies as a solution to the world's energy needs, say independent experts.</span></span><span class=texto11><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=texto11><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51354">http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51354</a> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>More delays plague N.B. nuclear plant </span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham was in Ottawa last week to ask the Harper government to help cover the estimated $475 million in cost overruns at Point Lepreau.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/more-delays-plague-nb-nuclear-plant-aecl-says-work-to-take-months-longer-92776679.html">http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/more-delays-plague-nb-nuclear-plant-aecl-says-work-to-take-months-longer-92776679.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Background:</span></i></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Originally scheduled to be finished by September 2009,</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>at a fixed price of $1.4 billion, the "refurbished" Point </span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Lepreau nuclear reactor is now not expected to be ready before the end of February 2011. This doubles the total amount of time estimated for the refurbishment, and there is always a likelihood of further delays. </span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Refurbishment is a mild term for the complete gutting of the reactor core, the removal of thousands of highly radioactive and corroded pipes both inside and outside</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>of the core, and the complete rebuilding of the core and the primary cooling system of the reactor. </span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Each day of delay costs the utility about a million dollars</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>in replacement power, for an additional $450 million at least. This does not include the added expenses associated</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>with the delays in the reconstruction work itself.</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Back in 2002, the New Brunswick Public Utility Board had</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>advised against the reconstruction project on the grounds</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>that the risks and uncertainties for the N.B. taxpayers were </span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>too great.</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> - </span><span class=apple-style-span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Gordon Edwards.</span></i></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C00000'>Radioactive Steam Generator Shipments Put the Great Lakes and Global Consumer Products at Risk <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style='color:black'>Upwards of 50 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and groups from a dozen nations, and over 150 individuals throughout and beyond the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway have signed onto a resolution opposing Bruce Power's plan to transport radioactively contaminated equipment through the Great Lakes, along the St. Lawrence River, across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Baltic Sea to Sweden for melting and release into the marketplace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'>The original resolution is posted at: <a href="http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/glresradsteamgen.pdf">http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/glresradsteamgen.pdf</a> Please sign on as an individual or as a group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Impending Environmental Disaster: Uranium Mining Begins Near Grand Canyon</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Uranium is a known cause of cancers, organ damage, miscarriages & birth defects.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18116">http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18116</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:22.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:1.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#152539'>They're ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It's cheaper that way. And the trees and the animals and the flooding? It may not be pretty, but we've got all those dishwashers to run <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.75pt;line-height:15.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>What does this have to do with you? This is where Ontario gets 40 per cent of the fuel powering its coal-fired power plants. Ontario Power Generation is a big buyer from West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Company spokesperson John Earl says 40 per cent of its coal comes from there. The coal is used to stoke burners at its two biggest coal-fired plants, Nanticoke and Lambton. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/306165">http://www.thestar.com/article/306165</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>We Need a Road Map to a Coal-Free Future<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p>In the wake of the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years, compromise and political machinations this spring have resulted in a regulatory crisis of failure; workplace safety in the mines, including the black lung scandal, has emerged as a national tragedy; toxic coal ash remains uncategorized as hazardous waste; mountaintop removal operations and devastating strip mining in 24 states continue under regulatory plunder, not abolishment; billions of taxpayers’ dollars pour down the black hole of carbon capture and storage boondoggles, increasing coal production; climate legislation hangs in the balance of political games.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Our modern-day Paine, James Hansen at the NASA Goddard Center, has issued a similar clarion call: “Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Our global climate is nearing tipping points.”<o:p></o:p></p><p>Clean energy independence, not coal, will bring more sustainable jobs. Wind, solar, hydropower and turbine manufacturing, along with weatherization, retrofitting appliances and homes, could create jobs. The Appalachian Regional Commission found that “energy-efficiency investments could result in an increase of 77,378 net jobs by 2030″ in the region.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/146763/we_need_a_road_map_to_a_coalfree_future">http://www.alternet.org/environment/146763/we_need_a_road_map_to_a_coalfree_future</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>Leachate might contain radioactive contaminants because of past uranium mining in the area<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Leachate treatment raises public concerns<b><br></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.barrysbaythisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1584171" target="_blank">http://www.barrysbaythisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e;=1584171</a><b> <br></b><br>Test water for radiation, reader urges<b><br></b><a href="http://www.barrysbaythisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1714629" target="_blank">http://www.barrysbaythisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e;=1714629</a> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Leachate from landfill treated in Barry's Bay<b><br></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.barrysbaythisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1543356" target="_blank">http://www.barrysbaythisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e;=1543356</a> <br><br>"In a telephone interview on Monday, Manning said that the leachate is not tested for uranium or radioactivity by OCWA because it is not among the required tests."<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Windmill Boom Curbs Electric Power Prices for RWE (renewable wind energy)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Twice this year, the nation’s 21,000 wind turbines pumped out so much power that utilities reduced customer bills for using the surplus electricity. Since the first rebate came with little fanfare at 5 a.m. one October day in 2008, payments have risen as high as 500.02 euros ($665) a megawatt-hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Wind’s impact on prices results from its “low marginal costs,” which pushes more expensive technologies including natural gas and coal out of the market, the Poeyry study said. Fossil-fuel burning relies on fuel, which can boost the price of electricity from those sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGDZMpv5Y9Vo&pos=13">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGDZMpv5Y9Vo&pos=13</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Living Downstream</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Canadian Premiere of documentary feature film, <i>Living Downstream</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Bloor Cinema, Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Tues. May 18, 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>General admission: $10.<b> </b>Advance tickets available via Brown Paper Tickets (<a href="http://ca.brownpapertickets.com/event/109106">http://ca.brownpapertickets.com/event/109106</a>) and in person from all Book City locations. Remaining tickets available at the box office one hour before the screening. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Co-presentation of Planet in Focus and Women’s Healthy Environments Network<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Living Downstream</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> is an eloquent feature-length documentary that charts the life and work of Sandra Steingraber: a biologist, author, cancer survivor and cancer prevention advocate. Like the book on which it is based, <b><i>Living Downstream </i></b>documents the growing body of scientific evidence that links human health with the health of our environment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.livingdownstream.com/" target="_blank">http://www.livingdownstream.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>CANSEC is Canada's largest and most important War-Industry Trade Show</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>– held June 2-3 in Ottawa.<br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Please join the <b>Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)</b> in opposing it this weapons bazaar. Be part of this campaign. <br><br><b>What is CANSEC, and why do we oppose it?</b><br><a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/CANSEC2010article.htm">http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/CANSEC2010article.htm</a><br><br><b>"CANSEC: War is Business" </b>(50-page COAT publication. Get the nitty gritty)<br><a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm">http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm</a><br> <br><b>"Rally for Peace,"</b> <b>June 2, 5-7 pm, Ottawa</b> (Our main antiCANSEC event)<br>Includes a list of speakers, poets and musicians, and links to their websites.<br><a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/Rally.htm">http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/Rally.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Peace Bus" from Toronto to Ottawa, June 2: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>All aboard for the anti-CANSEC rally<br><a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/TOPeaceBus.htm">http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/TOPeaceBus.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Coal Facts: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In 2009, coal-fired electricity generation in Ontario caused the <b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>deaths of 246 people</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> </span>and led to 342 hospital admissions, 406 emergency room visits and almost 123,000 minor illnesses. If we wait till 2014 before shutting down our coal plants, that’ll mean the <b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>death of 1000 Ontarians</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> </span>plus hundreds of thousands of <span style='color:black'>asthma attacks. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Coal-fired power plants are a major contributor to <b><span style='color:#4F81BD'>smog</span></b>, producing a significant percentage of Ontario’s nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide emissions, as well as airborne mercury emissions, lead and arsenic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Coal-fired electricity is no longer profitable for Ontario Power Generation (OPG). In 2009, OPG received a <b><span style='color:#C0504D'>$412 million subsidy</span></b><span style='color:#C0504D'> </span>from electricity consumers to compensate for operating losses at the Nanticoke and Lambton coal-fired power plants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0D0D0D'>In 2009, coal was responsible for only 6.6% of<u> </u>Ontario’s total electricity production. Ontario’s coal-free electricity generation capacity is now 23% higher than the forecast peak demand for the summer of 2010 and this excess coal-free capacity is expected to grow. This means that </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>we don’t need to burn coal</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0D0D0D'>to meet our electricity needs!</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0D0D0D'>We should continue ramping up green energy procurement such as </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#8064A2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>wind, solar, geothermal and hydro imports from Quebec</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0D0D0D'>. We should be burning cleaner natural gas rather than dirty coal. And most importantly, we should be reducing demand through aggressive </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>energy conservation and efficiency programs</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0D0D0D'>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Angela Bischoff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Outreach Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ontario Clean Air Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tel: 416 926 1907 x 246<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>625 Church Street, #402<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/">www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/">www.cleanairalliance.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6'>Our Facebook Group</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition.php"><span lang=EN-CA style='color:purple'>Sign Our Petition</span></a></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/nonukesnews.php"><span lang=EN-CA style='color:purple'>No Nukes News</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.healthpower.ca/"><span lang=EN-CA>Health Power</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><img border=0 width=127 height=27 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CAF5B5.DFA48FB0"></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>