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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'>Dec. 20</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, 2010<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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Blessings of the season. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Here’s to a non-nuclear <span style='color:#1F497D'>2011</span>!<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<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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=bodycontents1><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> ‘There is, as yet, no proven technical solution for the long-term management of radioactive wastes, and in the meantime we are storing up large quantities of high level spent fuel and intermediate-level </span></span><span class=bodycontents1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/599919/eu_nuclear_waste_disposal_plans_not_safe_claim_scientists.html" target="_self"><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#384936'>radioactive waste</span></a></span></span><span class=bodycontents1><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> in interim stores at each reactor site’. - Prof Andrew Blowers, a member of the first Government Committee on Radioactive Waste Management</span></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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/NuclearHandout_v5.pdf"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=150 height=208 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBA06B.07457B50" alt="Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: NuclearHandout_v5-1 (2)"></span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Our new pamphlets have arrived: <i><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/NuclearHandout_v5.pdf">Stop a $35 Billion Nuclear Handout: No More Blank Cheques for Ontario Power Generation and its Darlington Nuclear Station</a>. </i>They contain <b><span style='color:#00B050'>postcards</span></b> addressed to Premier McGuinty and the Leader of the Opposition Tim Hudak</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>. </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'>Order</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'> <b>FREE</b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> copies <u><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets">here</a></u>. Give them to your friends, neighbours, local coffee shops, etc. Help get the word out that there are <b><span style='color:#00B050'>lower cost and safer</span></b> ways to meet all our electricity needs without investing tens of billions of $$ in nuclear energy. <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:#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><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:#4F6228'>ACTION ALERT! – Public Hearing for new nuclear reactors at Darlington</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br>The Ontario Government plans to build up to four new nuclear reactors at the site of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station near Oshawa.<br>A joint panel appointed over a year ago to conduct an environmental review of the proposal announced on December 14th that the <b><span style='color:#4F6228'>public hearing</span></b><span style='color:#4F6228'> </span>will begin March 21st, 2011 <br>The panel has declared that anyone wanting to speak at the hearing or provide written comments (or both) must register their intention to do so by January 13th.<br><br>That's right!<b> <span style='color:#4F6228'>You must register by January 13th </span></b>-- 67 days in advance of the March 21st hearing start!<b> <br><br></b>You can register on-line and the Hearing Panel secretariat will then contact you with "details" such as the hearing location and exact <br>schedule (the hearing will be held in Durham Region) - the link is <a href="http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/joint_review_panel/darlington/jrp_form/index_darlington.cfm">http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/joint_review_panel/darlington/jrp_form/index_darlington.cfm</a> <br><br>Alternatively, you can contact the Secretariat at 1-866-582-1884 or by email at <a href="mailto:darlington.review@ceaa-acee.gc.ca">darlington.review@ceaa-acee.gc.ca</a> and provide them with your contact information, an indication if you want to make an oral presentation to the panel or provide a written submission, and describe your area of interest in the proposal. <br><br><b><span style='color:#4F6228'>Don't delay! Do it today! </span><br><br></b>For more details about the hearing or information about the proposal to build up to four new nuclear reactors at Darlington please visit the following sites: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission at <a href="http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/joint_review_panel/darlington/index.cfm">http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/joint_review_panel/darlington/index.cfm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency at <a href="http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/details-eng.cfm?evaluation=29525"> http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/details-eng.cfm?evaluation=29525</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>Greenpeace at <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/end-the-nuclear-threat/">http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/end-the-nuclear-threat/</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ontario Clean Air Alliance at </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"> </a><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><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><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C00000'>Nuclear refit a huge task<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>OPG chief says industry learned from mistakes, vows overhaul will be safe, on time, on budget</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/articlePrint/167766">http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/articlePrint/167766</a></span></span><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:#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><h1><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#E46C0A'>Feds' plans to sell AECL melting down amid weak interest in Candu technology</span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#E46C0A'> <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>The Harper government's plans to sell the troubled Candu unit of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., appear at risk of unravelling, with one of the two official bidders said to be wavering in its commitment to take on the challenge of marketing new Candu reactors.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><p><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>One nuclear-industry expert said it's not surprising SNC would be getting cold feet, given the delays and massive cost overruns often associated with building new reactors.</span></span><o:p></o:p></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.montrealgazette.com/business/Feds+plans+sell+AECL+melting+down+amid+weak+interest+Candu+technology/3989860/story.html">http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Feds+plans+sell+AECL+melting+down+amid+weak+interest+Candu+technology/3989860/story.html</a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><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><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#E46C0A'>An 11th-hour bid for Candu reactor unit<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>The offer put together by Canadian entrepreneur Andrew Day is the only bid thus far focused solely on building and marketing new Candu reactors. The other two bidders, SNC Lavalin and Bruce Power, are believed to be primarily interested in AECL's refurbishment and engineering-services lines of business, which generate a steady stream of revenue through contracts to offer technical support and extend the life of reactors across Canada. Whatever the case, the winning bid is unlikely to be very impressive in dollar terms, industry sources say. The government is more interested in getting the troubled Crown corporation off its books than generating a major windfall from the sale.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Since 2006-7, the federal government has plowed $1.74 billion in public funding into AECL. Last year, the Candu division lost $331 million, even after receiving $124 million in parliamentary appropriations. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=95d0e584-1d8d-46cd-9fd6-71255142bd33">http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=95d0e584-1d8d-46cd-9fd6-71255142bd33</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><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 lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><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:#7030A0'>Have your say Ontarians <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:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ask Tim Hudak to tell Ontario Power Generation that a Hudak Government will not allow it to pass its cost overruns associated with its proposed Darlington Re-Build Project on to Ontario’s electricity consumers and taxpayers. Scroll down to the <b>Environment</b> section, and then scroll down to the <b>Yourself</b> section where you can expand with a few sentences. Thanks. <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:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://haveyoursayontario.ca/">http://haveyoursayontario.ca/</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:#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><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:17.25pt'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#31859C'>The government isn’t telling us the true cost of nuclear waste disposal</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#31859C'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=subheading1><span class=apple-style-span><i>The Ecologist<span style='color:#1F497D'> - </span></i></span><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>UK plans for ten new nuclear power plants will create £80 billion worth of radioactive waste that </span>we still have no secure way of disposing<span style='color:#1F497D'><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:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/691982/the_government_isnt_telling_us_the_true_cost_of_nuclear_waste_disposal.html">http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/691982/the_government_isnt_telling_us_the_true_cost_of_nuclear_waste_disposal.html</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:#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><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#00B050'>Nuclear power plant to be mothballed<o:p></o:p></span></h1><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"'>Even though it will shut down in nine years, the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant — including its reactor and tons of radioactive waste — will remain part of the Lacey landscape for perhaps decades to come. Plants can take up to 60 years to decommission, he noted. <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:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.app.com/article/20101209/NEWS03/12090331/Oyster-Creek-s-nucler-power-plant-to-be-mothballed">http://www.app.com/article/20101209/NEWS03/12090331/Oyster-Creek-s-nucler-power-plant-to-be-mothballed</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:#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><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.75pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>Into Eternity </span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>This jaw-dropping documentary tackles a subject almost beyond comprehension – radioactive nuclear waste</span></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>Madsen's film is about Onkalo, a colossal underground tomb being built in Finland, 500 metres below the earth – supposedly impervious to any event on the surface and far away from any possible earthquake danger: its purpose is to house thousands of tonnes of radioactive nuclear waste.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>The point is that, to be safe, this gigantic bunker has to last 100,000 years. Are we humans capable of even conceiving this, let alone actually guaranteeing it? Our own history spans a few paltry millennia. We have, of course, created nothing that has lasted anything like this length of time. And yet Onkalo has to do it – there is no question about this. Finland is building something that must outlast every institution humans have ever conceived.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>This is nothing less than post-human architecture we are talking about. Why isn't every government, every philosopher, every theologian, everywhere in the world discussing Onkalo and its implications? I don't know, but they should see this film.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/11/into-eternity-film-review">http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/11/into-eternity-film-review</a></span></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'>----------------------------------------------------------------</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><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#E46C0A'>Recklessness with Nuclear Waste<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Hanford remains one of the most contaminated zones in the western Hemisphere.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA 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"'><a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/recklessness_with_nuclear_waste">http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/recklessness_with_nuclear_waste</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:#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><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><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:#1F497D'>Stand up for Solar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:.2in;margin-right:.2in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Stand Up For Solar is a <span style='letter-spacing:.1pt'>new advocacy effort to showcase public and industry support for solar energy in Ontario and </span>Canada. <span style='letter-spacing:.1pt'>Our website portal provides one location for interested individuals to show their support for </span><span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>solar energy and the need for continued government support that helps to make Ontario and </span><span style='letter-spacing:.1pt'>Canada a positive environment for investment in solar energy production.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Send an email to your MPP here, and learn more about solar energy.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><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:#1F497D'><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:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.standupforsolar.ca/">http://www.standupforsolar.ca/</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:#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"'> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><h2><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#77933C'>ecoENERGY shutdown is killing Ontario jobs<o:p></o:p></span></h2><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"'>“Home energy efficiency retrofits is a billion dollar industry in Ontario and we’re about to lose it,” warned Clifford Maynes, Executive Director of Green Communities Canada.<br>Government incentives for home energy efficiency investments are slated to end in March 2011, and so far neither Ottawa nor Queen’s Park have announced plans to keep the industry alive beyond the expiry of current programs.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>“Energy efficiency is the most effective way to create green jobs and business opportunities. 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