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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:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;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'>Oct. 6</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=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"'>“On top of the perennial challenges of global poverty and injustice, the two biggest threats facing human civilization in the 21st century are climate change and nuclear war. It would be absurd to respond to one by increasing the risks of the other.” - <i>Dr Mark Diesendorf, author of Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy<o:p></o:p></i></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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Speaking up about something that matters is the best recreation ever." – <i>Sharon Howarth, grassroots climate crusader</i><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"'><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/seaway+Mohawks/3606237/story.html"><span style='color:blue'><br></span></a></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=75000'>Not in our seaway: Mohawks Opposed to shipment of generators</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/seaway+Mohawks/3606237/story.html">http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/seaway+Mohawks/3606237/story.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><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'>U.S. senators oppose nuclear waste shipments </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><br></span></b><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2787096">http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2787096</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></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><b><span lang=EN-CA 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'>Plan to ship radioactive generators through Great Lakes draws protest<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/plan-to-ship-radioactive-generators-through-great-lakes-draws-protest/article1730406/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/plan-to-ship-radioactive-generators-through-great-lakes-draws-protest/article1730406/</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: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'>Nuclear spill could contaminate Canadian waters for centuries, environmentalists argue</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Nuclear+spill+could+contaminate+waters+centuries/3599525/story.html">http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Nuclear+spill+could+contaminate+waters+centuries/3599525/story.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 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:3.75pt;line-height:22.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Darlington upgrades will hike hydro rates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#343434'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#343434'>Hydro consumers could soon be zapped with another rate hike to pay for the refurbishment of the Darlington nuclear station. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#343434'>Jack Gibbons of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, a coalition of health and environmental groups, said the government needs to stop financing Darlington on the backs of taxpayers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#343434'><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'>“Consumers want the government to give them a new supply that is clean and green at a reasonable cost, and nuclear power doesn’t meet that test — the cost is way too high,” Gibbons told a Queen’s Park news conference. “It doesn’t make sense to invest up to $35 billion rebuilding an old nuclear station when we can meet our electricity needs at a fraction of a cost by energy efficiency . . . and to import water power from Quebec.”<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 pointed out Ontario has a bad history of cost overruns concerning nuclear projects. He figures the actual cost of the rebuild could be between $21 billion to $35 billion.<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.thestar.com/news/canada/article/868247--darlington-upgrades-will-hike-hydro-rates-ndp">http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/868247--darlington-upgrades-will-hike-hydro-rates-ndp</a><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/881">The Darlington Re-Build Consumer Protection Plan</a></span></u><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"'>The good news is that Ontario has much lower cost and lower risk options to keep the lights on. These options can meet our electricity needs at <span style='color:#C00000'>less than half</span> the cost of re-building Darlington. <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: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=50000'>With the click</span></b><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=50000'> of a <u><a href="http://cleanairalliance.org/letter_to_dalton2"><span style='color:windowtext'><span style='color:windowtext'>button</span></span></a></u>, please send Premier McGuinty an email telling him that taxpayers and consumers should not pay for any nuclear cost overruns. Fixed-price bids should be required. Invest in lower cost and lower risk options. </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=50000'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.org/letter_to_dalton2"><span style='color:blue;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:blue;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><span style='color:windowtext'>http://cleanairalliance.org/letter_to_dalton2</span></span></a><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><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 style='text-autospace:none'><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><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'>Write a Letter to the Editor!<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"'>Sometimes they DO get printed. Make them short and sweet (or risk getting them severely edited!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Here are 6 anti-nuke letters that were published in the Toronto Star:<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"'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/868899">http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/868899</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";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:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></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'>‘Small Modular Reactors’ No Panacea for What Ails Nuclear Power<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"'>The same industry that promised that nuclear power would be ‘too cheap to meter’ is now touting another supposed cure-all for America’s power needs: the small modular reactor (SMR). The only problem is that SMRs are not only unlikely live up to the hype, but may well aggravate cost, safety, and environmental problems, according to a new fact sheet prepared by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR).<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"'>Article here: <a href="http://www.youwb.com/2010/09/ieerpsr-small-modular-reactors-no-panacea-for-what-ails-nuclear-power/">http://www.youwb.com/2010/09/ieerpsr-small-modular-reactors-no-panacea-for-what-ails-nuclear-power/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Factsheet can be found here: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/small-modular-reactors2010.pdf">http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/small-modular-reactors2010.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><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><h1><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>What We've Done to Others </span></em><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></h1><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#990000'>The Nuclear Gang Rides On </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><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"'>Few Americans have a clear memory of our nuclear history.<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.counterpunch.org/landau10012010.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/landau10012010.html</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 lang=EN-CA 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'>Phasing-out coal: the next critical step<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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://news.ontario.ca/mei/en/2010/10/moving-ontario-from-dirty-coal-to-a-clean-energy-future.html">Ontario’s decision</a> to shut down 2,000 megawatts of coal-fired electricity generation capacity today is an important step forward on the road to a coal-free Ontario that can boast cleaner air and a healthier climate.<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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But despite this step, 11 of Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) dirty coal-fired boilers will remain in operation until 2014, and under the province’s current environmental rules OPG can<b> increase</b> its total coal-fired electricity production by 14% in order to make export sales to the U.S. [<i><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/phaseout%20progress%202010%20rev4.pdf">Finishing the coal phase out</a></i>] Increasing OPG’s profits at the expense of our children’s health doesn’t make sense.<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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The good news is that Ontario’s coal-free generation capacity is now 17% greater than our peak day electricity demands. Therefore we can achieve a virtually complete coal phase-out today by simply putting our dirty coal plants on <b>standby reserve</b>, only operating them if they are absolutely needed to keep the lights on. <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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/coal_letter">Please send an email to Energy Minister Duguid<b> now</b></a> and ask him to prevent up to 137,500 asthma attacks per year by putting all of our dirty coal boilers on standby reserve today. <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><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'>Ontario nurses say shut down of coal-fired power units will save lives<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/01/c7195.html">http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/01/c7195.html</a><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><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'>National Asthma Patient Alliance (NAPA): Ontario Closes 4 Coal Plant Units<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://napa-blog.blogspot.com/2010/10/ontario-closes-4-coal-plant-units.html">http://napa-blog.blogspot.com/2010/10/ontario-closes-4-coal-plant-units.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 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><span lang=EN-CA 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"'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>U.S., EU join fight over Ontario’s green energy plan: </span></span><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"'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>Province's local-content rules seen as threat to export potential</span></span><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"'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-CA 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"'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p><span lang=EN-CA>Some of the world’s most powerful countries have joined the battle over Ontario’s green energy plan, threatening the cornerstone of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s renewable power strategy. The United States and the European Union emerged on Thursday as latest countries to say they have key commercial interests at stake and want to join the consultations on a complaint by Japan to the World Trade Organization. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/us-eu-join-fight-over-ontarios-green-energy-plan/article1736573/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/us-eu-join-fight-over-ontarios-green-energy-plan/article1736573/</a></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal'> </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-weight:normal'> </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><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 align=right style='text-align:right;background:#EEEEEE'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image001.gif@01CB658B.7C370070" alt="http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif"><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.gif@01CB658B.7C370070" alt="http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif"></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:17.25pt;background:white'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence <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"'>5 minute video<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Some national security experts believe that adhering to the theory of nuclear deterrence makes a country more secure. But does it really?<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 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB4MVVcAi9E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB4MVVcAi9E</a><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 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><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></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'>Nuclear Energy: What they tell us<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p>View this shocking slideshow (warning some images relating to the children of Chernobyl may be disturbing):<o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://www.geoffreybsmall.net/slide01logomania.html" target="_blank">http://www.geoffreybsmall.net/slide01logomania.html</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 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'>Looking at the Real Cost of Fossil Fuel<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 lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>In economics, conduct that re-allocates part of the cost of doing business upon other parties without their consent (such as pollution of public air and waters) is called an externality. To the extent that environmental impacts are not reflected in the market price of electricity, consumers are not paying the full cost of that power (i.e., their energy use is being subsidized), and energy markets become distorted, resulting in inefficient use of resources.<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.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/04-5">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/04-5</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 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