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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:22.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt;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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Sept. 8</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Pass this onto a friend! - a<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I believe in energy conservation. I believe in renewable energy. And I believe in bicycles. So this all fits together.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Graham Fowler, on the Ride for Renewables from Pickering to Darlington, Ontario<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></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 lang=EN 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'>Don't Nuke Green Energy: Stop Darlington<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>2 min. video, Greenpeace</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLDwvjARjK4"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLDwvjARjK4</span></a><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'>Ride for Renewables – from the Pickering nuke plant to the Darlington nuke plant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Over thirty cyclists rode from Pickering to Darlington to demand the government replace Pickering with green energy instead of new nukes at Darlington. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Check out photos of the trip here: </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeace_canada/sets/72157624801464902/show/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeace_canada/sets/72157624801464902/show/</span></a><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"'>And watch the 4 min. video of the trip: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/greenpeacecanada?gl=CA&hl=en#p/a/u/1/o-scLOO98iw"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.youtube.com/greenpeacecanada?gl=CA&hl=en#p/a/u/1/o-scLOO98iw</span></a><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><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=50000'>Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> was published by the New York Academy of Sciences. The book is solidly based--on health data, radiological surveys and scientific reports--some 5,000 in all. It concludes that based on records now available, some 985,000 people died, mainly of cancer, as a result of the Chernobyl accident." An important lesson from the Chernobyl experience is that experts and organizations tied to the nuclear industry have dismissed and ignored the consequences of the catastrophe," it states.<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"'>The consequences on public health are extensively analyzed. Medical records involving children--the young, their cells more rapidly multiplying, are especially affected by radioactivity--are considered. Before the accident, more than 80% of the children in the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia extensively contaminated by Chernobyl "were healthy," the book reports, based on health data. But "today fewer than 20% are well."<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"'>There is an examination of genetic impacts with records reflecting an increase in "chromosomal aberrations" wherever there was fallout. This will continue through the "children of irradiated parents for as many as seven generations." So "the genetic consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe will impact hundreds of millions of people."<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"'>"Every single system that was studied--whether human or wolves or livestock or fish or trees or mushrooms or bacteria--all were changed, some of them irreversibly. The scope of the damage is stunning."<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"'>And it is a clear call for no new nuclear power plants to be built and for the closing of the dangerous atomic machines now running--and a switch to safe energy technologies, now available, led by solar and wind energy, that will not leave nearly a million people dead from one disaster.<span style='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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/New-Book-Concludes-Cherno-by-Karl-Grossman-100902-941.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/New-Book-Concludes-Cherno-by-Karl-Grossman-100902-941.html</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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:#C00000'>September 29, 2010 Public Hearing - Shipment of Radioactive Steam Generators</span></b><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'><br><b>The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) will hold a one-day public hearing to consider the application by Bruce Power for a transport license to ship 16 radioactive steam generators through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to Sweden for "recycling" in the fall of 2010, from Owen Sound, Ontario. Each steam generator weighs about 100 metric tonnes.<br></b><br>Concern has been expressed about two dangerous precedents (1) allowing the transport of radioactive wastes through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway; and (2) allowing contaminated metal from CANDUs to be melted and sold as scrap for unrestricted use. As recently as 2008, Bruce Power and CSC said the decommissioned steam generators cannot be recycled and stated that they will be stored on-site as radioactive waste.<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'>Please consider intervening at the hearing. Deadline to file the outline of your submission is <span class=apple-style-span>Sept. 13</span>. You can send in a written presentation, and/or present in person in Ottawa or via teleconference. You can file your submission via email to </span><a href="mailto:interventions@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>interventions@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> or by completing the online form available at: </span><a href="http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/intervention/index.cfm."><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/intervention/index.cfm.</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br><br>It is also important to have many spectators at the hearing, so please attend even if you are not an intervenor. The hearing will be webcast live on September 29</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>. <br><br><span style='color:black'>To find out more about the issue go to: </span><span style='color:#333333'><br></span></span><a href="http://glu.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b50150b6b71e8dcf75816ab81&id=caa135bad4&e=58a4663c5a"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#486FCE'>www.glu.org/en/campaigns/energy/nuclear/steam-generators</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cela.ca/newsevents/action-alert/action-alert-voice-your-concern-canadian-nuclear-safety-commission-cnsc-rega"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.cela.ca/newsevents/action-alert/action-alert-voice-your-concern-canadian-nuclear-safety-commission-cnsc-rega</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3670"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3670</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://oen.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=368&cntnt01dateformat=%25b%20%25d%2C%20%25Y&cntnt01returnid=75"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://oen.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=368&cntnt01dateformat=%25b%20%25d%2C%20%25Y&cntnt01returnid=75</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/publications/action-alert-stop-shipment-dangerous-nuclear-waste"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/publications/action-alert-stop-shipment-dangerous-nuclear-waste</span></a><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:#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'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><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'>Aboriginal coalition joins anti-shipping protest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Aboriginal voices have joined the growing international chorus opposing plans to ship radioactive nuclear generators along the Great Lakes.<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><a href="http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/07/27/14847431.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/07/27/14847431.html</span></a><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"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><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'>Nuclear regulator accused of prejudice</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><span class=apple-style-span>A high-profile environmental group says Canada's nuclear regulator has "prejudiced" its public hearing by already concluding that Bruce Power's plan to ship steam generators through the Great Lakes doesn't pose a significant safety risk. </span> <span class=apple-style-span>Derek Stack, executive director of the Canadian-American group Great Lakes United, said the low-level radioactive waste shipments should be halted until the plan is subjected to full community consultation. </span> <span class=apple-style-span>More than 60 non-governmental organizations have signed a petition to oppose the shipments.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2718855"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2718855</span></a><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=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><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'>Lepreau delays force Quebec to postpone work on its nuclear reactor <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mounting delays to the refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor have prompted a postponement of similar work at the Gentilly 2 station in Quebec.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.energy.probeinternational.org/nuclear-power/new-brunswick-power/lepreau-delays-force-quebec-postpone-work-its-nuclear-reactor"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.energy.probeinternational.org/nuclear-power/new-brunswick-power/lepreau-delays-force-quebec-postpone-work-its-nuclear-reactor</span></a><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"'><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"'><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:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Mining opponents camp at Quebec's National Assembly</span></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sept-Îles residents set up a mock mining camp in Quebec City, near the national assembly. </span></span><o:p></o:p></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"'> </span></span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/08/17/quebec-uranium-mine.html?ref=rss#ixzz0wtYKJcAC"><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/08/17/quebec-uranium-mine.html?ref=rss#ixzz0wtYKJcAC</span></span></a><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><h2 style='background:white'><a href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/human-rights-whats-new/2010/8/31/international-physicians-group-calls-for-ban-on-uranium-mini.html"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0;text-decoration:none'>International physicians group calls for ban on uranium mining</span></a> <span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='color:#262626'>The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) adopted a resolution at its International Council meeting on Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, </span><a href="http://www.nuclear-risks.org/en/news/artikel/ecc4386a2c/ippnw-calls-for-a-ban-on-uranium-min.html" target="_blank"><span lang=EN>calling for a ban on uranium mining</span></a><span lang=EN style='color:#262626'> and the production of yellowcake (uranium oxide). The resolution described both processes as “irresponsible” and “a grave threat to health and to the environment”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/human-rights-whats-new/2010/8/31/international-physicians-group-calls-for-ban-on-uranium-mini.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.beyondnuclear.org/human-rights-whats-new/2010/8/31/international-physicians-group-calls-for-ban-on-uranium-mini.html</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><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'>Report: Unsuccessful 'Fast Breeder' Is No Solution for Long-Term Reactor Waste Disposal Issues <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After Over $50 Billion Spent by U.S., Japan, Russia, UK, India and France, No Commercial Model Found<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>High Cost, Unreliability, Major Safety Problems and Proliferation Risks All Seen as Major Barriers to Use<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/report--unsuccessful-fast-breeder-is-no-solution-for-long-term-reactor-waste-disposal-issues-84610032.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/report--unsuccessful-fast-breeder-is-no-solution-for-long-term-reactor-waste-disposal-issues-84610032.html</span></a><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"'><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:#00B050'>Profit in sustainable 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><span lang=EN style='color:black'>The legislation (Ontario's Green Energy and Green Economy Act) has been hugely successful, motivating thousands of ordinary people to mount solar panels on their roofs, spurring local manufacturing, and attracting international investment. The overwhelming response to the opportunity to profit from producing clean energy makes it possible to close the coal plants and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, contradicting naysayers who argue that renewable energy cannot meet demand. <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'>Gallant complains about the millions of dollars being spent on what he characterizes as subsidies for green energy, but he fails to mention the subsidies for coal or nuclear power. <br><br>Instead, he blames recent rises in electricity prices on renewables, even though the vast majority of clean electricity contracted under the Green Energy Act is not even on line yet -- and when it is, it will make up only a small portion of the province's energy. Gallant doesn't like what he sees when he looks at his electricity bill but neglects mentioning the line items for the never-ending debt we keep paying for our nuclear plants. He faults renewables for the cost of upgrading Ontario's aging grid, although the largest allocation is for a new transmission line to carry power from the refurbished Bruce reactors. <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><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/Profit+sustainable+energy/3482050/story.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.nationalpost.com/Profit+sustainable+energy/3482050/story.html</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Toronto household power use soars 18 per cent<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#152539'><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:#343434'>Electricity use has soared in Toronto and across the province this summer, driven by hot weather.<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:#343434'>But the sharp increase underscores the need for the province to push energy conservation more aggressively, says the chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. He said it’s a warning signal that the province needs to pay more attention to curbing power use rather than increasing supply. But current efforts are skewed toward producing more power rather than saving energy, Gibbons said. “For every dollar the Ontario Power Authority has spent on conservation and demand management, they’ve contracted for $40 of new supply,” he said.<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:#343434'>Gibbons said the power authority should be funding local utilities to hire students to go door to door, selling conservation programs like Peaksaver, just as energy retailers have sales staffs on the ground to sell their products. “There’s no reason why the Peaksaver program can’t be as successful as the Blue Box,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/853465--toronto-household-power-use-soars-18-per-cent"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.thestar.com/business/article/853465--toronto-household-power-use-soars-18-per-cent</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/creating-jobs-and-savings-with-energy-efficiency/"><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0;text-decoration:none'>Creating jobs and savings with energy efficiency</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h3 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Upgrading just 40% of buildings would generate 625,000 jobs and cut U.S. energy bills up to $64 billion a year<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='margin-bottom:9.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:#297700'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:9.0pt'><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/07/23/energy-efficiency-is-the-core-climate-solution-part-1-the-biggest-low-carbon-resource-by-far/" title="Permanent Link: Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution, Part 1: The biggest low-carbon resource by far">Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution:</a><span style='color:#333333'> The biggest low-carbon resource by far. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:9.0pt'><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/creating-jobs-and-savings-with-energy-efficiency/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29">http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/creating-jobs-and-savings-with-energy-efficiency/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29</a><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#297700'> <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";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:#C00000'>As Quebec bathes in electricity, money goes down the drain<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:#343434'>Quebec is by far Canada’s largest producer of electricity, largely due to its abundance of hydroelectricity sources.<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:#343434'>“We’ve got electricity through the wazoo,” says Daniel Breton, an energy activist with a group called Maîtres Chez Nous – 21st Century, which seeks independence from fossil fuels. “In a situation predicted to be in surplus until at least 2023, to launch more is completely irresponsible,” Breton says.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/quebec/article/850738--as-quebec-bathes-in-electricity-money-goes-down-the-drain"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.thestar.com/news/quebec/article/850738--as-quebec-bathes-in-electricity-money-goes-down-the-drain</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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'>We Waste How Much Water On Coal?!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></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"'>We usually give coal the stink eye for the ways it harms the earth's surface when it is extracted, and the way it harms the earth's systems when it is burned. But we also need to hone in on the way coal harms our fresh water supplies. Between 800 and 3,000 gallons of water are used to extract, process and dispose each ton of coal. And with 1 billion tons of coal used per year in the US, that equates to as much as 75 trillion gallons of water wasted on dirty energy each year. Circle of Blue has put these stats and many other jaw-dropping figures into a compelling infographic.<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><a href="http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/infographic-coal-and-water-%E2%80%93-a-resource-mismatch/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Check out the Full Sized infographic on Circle of Blue</span></a><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><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'>Wind farms making coal phase-out easier<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>New wind farms in Chatham-Kent-Essex are helping Ontario phase out coal production while adding renewable hydro to the grid, says Chatham-Kent Essex MPP Pat Hoy. <o:p></o:p></p><p>"Ontario has sufficient electricity generation and transmission resources available to maintain reliability over the next year-and-a-half, according to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in its latest 18-month outlook," Hoy says in a news release. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://ckdp.ca/2010/08/25/making-coal-phase-out-easier/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://ckdp.ca/2010/08/25/making-coal-phase-out-easier/</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Blowing in the wind; Planned wind turbines in South Cayuga causes debate<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"'>As the number of wind farms increases in Ontario, so does the controversy that surrounds them. It seems people either love them or hate them.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"I'm for wind turbines because we have to go with the future. The future means we have to go with different energies. Some are saying people get sick with wind turbines, but this is not proven yet. What is proven is that people who live close to nuclear power stations have gotten cancer. I don't like to think about if we had nuclear power at Nanticoke and there was an accident. It would run into Lake Erie where we have all our drinking water.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Wind turbines do not pollute. They might kill the odd bird, but most birds get used to them and fly around them. We're also killing birds with our cars, but no one is saying we should quit driving our cars." Seitz said some neighbours have said the swooshing noise the turbine blades make can be bothersome. He believes people will get used to the noise, just as they get used to other noises, such as traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.dunnvillechronicle.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2737672"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.dunnvillechronicle.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2737672</span></a><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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4F81BD;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>France to Have 3,000 MW of Offshore Wind by 2015</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p>According to Agence France Presse (AFP), the French government will launch next month a tender for contracts of 10 billion euros ($12.6 billion) to build 3,000 MW of offshore wind capacity. This may be only the beginning as the government wants to produce up to 6,000 MW via offshore wind by 2020.=<o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS138434765620100830">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS138434765620100830</a> <o:p></o:p></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 class=apple-style-span><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:9.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#297700'>Climate Reality: A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen, Naomi Klein & Clayton Thomas-Muller</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:black'>Science for Peace</span></b><span style='color:black'> and <b>The Centre for Global Change Science</b> welcome to Toronto the world’s foremost climate scientist and author of <i>Storms of My Grandchildren</i>, <b>Dr. James Hansen</b>, for 2 days of public talks, meetings with students and political lobbying.</span></span><b><span style='color:#308700'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span class=apple-style-span>Wednesday, September 15 <b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=apple-style-span>McMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Bldg (North), 80 Queens Park, Toronto</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span class=apple-style-span>5:30 pm 6:30pm <b>Science presentation</b> by Dr. James Hansen</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>6:30 pm 7:00pm Intermission</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>7:00 pm to 8:45pm <b>Climate Reality: A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen, Naomi Klein & Clayton Thomas-Muller</b>, moderated by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p><span class=apple-style-span>Admission free.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></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:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Help us push the Ontario coal phase out this year!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><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=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Visit </span><a href="http://coalmustgo.ca/"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CoalMustGo.ca</span></a><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> to <b><span style='color:#C00000'>send a letter</span></b><span style='color:#C00000'> </span>to Ontario’s political leaders. 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They contain postcards to Ontario’s political leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanks for helping get the word out!<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: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 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"'>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><a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>angela@cleanairalliance.org</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>www.cleanairalliance.org</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <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><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition.php"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:purple'>Sign Our Petition</span></a><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><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/nonukesnews.php"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:purple'>No Nukes News</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.healthpower.ca/"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Health Power</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><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><a href="http://cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_donate"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0032E6;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=127 height=27 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01CB4F61.37BAC480" alt="donate now"></span></a><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>