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isotopes</span></a> Move over nuclear isotopes – Edmonton’s new particle accelerator can generate a wider range of isotopes without producing nuclear waste, and at much lower cost.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cb3a5669dd&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Europe’s heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down</span></a> In the past few weeks, French utility EDF shut four reactors</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'> Swedish utility Vattenfall shut one, and nuclear plants in Finland, Germany, and Switzerland have <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=979e6c7618&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>cut back</span></a>. Scientists warn that thermal power interruptions <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4bd21a3987&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>will worsen</span></a> because of climate change, heatwaves and droughts.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=acfc3c2d39&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>California’s Wildfires and Nuclear Radiation</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>This land use attorney in California has been monitoring for radiation in and outside his home since spring. Readings have peaked during the wildfires. Has the vast bulk of the 40 million population of California just been unknowingly exposed to high concentrations of radioactive particles released in the fires?<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=31c5cb9435&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Smokescreen</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Watch this 2 min. animation by Fairewinds on why building new nukes is no climate solution, but rather is a lost opportunity for humankind with precious time and money wasted on the wrong choice.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=10865985db&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>US Federal health officials agree radioactive waste in St. Louis area may be linked to bone, lung and other cancers</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Radioactive wastes persist in the soil; a US federal agency reports that they could cause cancers. News video and article.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=34afc920a5&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Nuclear waste could be buried underneath UK national parks</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>A select committee has suggested putting nuclear waste from power plants under beauty spots in the country.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=547708410b&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Great Lakes bad choice for nuke waste shipments</span></a> High-level nuclear waste could be hauled from Illinois through Port Huron, Michigan, and across the border into Canada. The spent fuel bundles could very possibly end up at OPG’s Bruce nuclear station. Or they could be loading the waste onto ships to cross the Great Lakes, which the authors claim would be suicidal. More <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a7d7925697&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=0 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'>Ontario</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=193951c269&e=45743fde61">Is algae the new nuisance neighbour for the Pickering nuclear station?</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Ontario’s 18 working nuclear reactors are heating the Great Lakes. None use cooling towers (like US stations), so warm water feeds the algae and the algae blooms endanger the stations. Last month 4 Pickering reactors were offline when algae blooms blocked cooling water intakes (requiring natural gas back-up).<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f846cbbf8f&e=45743fde61">OPG’s misleading carbon-free claim</a> Excellent letter to the editor by Pickering resident Michael Borie about OPG's disingenuous claims that its nukes are carbon-free.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7883acfff0&e=45743fde61">Lending OPG employees to ministry raises safety and conflict of interest concerns</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Greenpeace called the practise "outrageous" and "akin to letting Kinder Morgan determine pipeline emergency response… The province let the fox prepare the hen house protection plan."<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=0 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>Renewables and Conservation</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ab7bb30d2c&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Solar, Wind Hit Trillion-Watt Milestone as Prices Continue to Fall</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>The next trillion watts will cost half of the price and could be in place in 5 years.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c32589a0c1&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Iowa to ditch nuclear energy for wind power</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>The state’s only nuclear reactor will be shuttered 5 years early (and immediately decommissioned) to make way for 4 wind farms. More <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1dfb94ef82&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>here</span></a>.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7b99aab318&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Why modern renewable power doesn’t need a breakthrough in energy storage</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>5 min. Ted Talk with energy and conservation guru Amory Lovins. More Americans work in the booming solar or wind power industries than in the coal industry, yet renewables are often claimed to be unreliable, needing vast and costly energy storage. Amory Lovins explains why that’s a myth.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c55582a0e6&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>The way humans get electricity is about to change forever – batteries</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>4 min. video about how batteries are about to alter the electricity landscape, allowing renewables to take over nuclear and fossils.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c18f9c0864&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>EU builds solar powered desalination plant in Gaza</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>to provide drinking water.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f52c7cdffe&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>US Renewables Are Closing In on Nuclear Generation</span></a> Renewables produced more electricity than nuclear for the first five months of 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><hr size=0 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'>Take Action!</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7e9f077dc2&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:purple'>Tell Doug Ford: Save green jobs in Ontario!</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Doug Ford’s gov’t is scrapping 758 renewable energy projects across the province, threatening over 6,000 middle class, green jobs, costing billions in lost revenue and trashing our climate targets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.75pt;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'> Sign our petitions to </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=dc95bbd27c&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Close Pickering</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>and to </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5b3ca281a6&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Buy Quebec Power</span></a><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b6d5974875&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>.</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>And share them with your friends. Watch our <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8b61c89ef2&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>2 min. video</span></a> here.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.75pt;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ae9e889854&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes?</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org"><span style='color:purple'>angela@cleanairalliance.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.75pt;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=3023a60919&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:purple'>Support Saugeen Ojibway Nation's right to prior consent on the Bruce nuclear rebuild </span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Petition opposing the Bruce nuclear rebuild.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1fc5a7cabf&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Stop OPG's Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late</span></a> Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d1dae6f473&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Petition</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fbf83f66b9&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Order your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond. <a href="https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=389baf5379&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters here</span></a>to post in your office, school, or local cafe.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span 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