Can John Tory save Toronto?

[Angela Bischoff]

Can John Tory save Toronto?
Next Tuesday (June 28th), Toronto City Council’s Executive Committee will debate a motion <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVAxEBwcHGlQ>  asking the Government of Ontario to close the Pickering Nuclear Station in 2018 when its licence expires.
This is a chance for Toronto City Council to show leadership where the Wynne Government has failed, by taking a stand to protect the millions of people who live in the radiation fall-out zone of one of the world’s oldest and largest nuclear plants which lies just 5 km east of Toronto.
The Pickering Nuclear Station started operating in 1971. In the 45 years since, it has been surrounded by tens of thousands of new residences, schools and businesses. The province turned a blind eye to the problem of allowing a huge metropolitan area to grow up around an aging nuclear station and it continues to turn a blind eye to Ontario Power Generation’s ill conceived plan to continue to operate the plant to 2025 or beyond.
 <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVA5EBwcHGlQ>  <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVA5EBwcHGlQ>  <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVA5EBwcHGlQ> Twice as many people now live within 30 kilometres of the Pickering Station – 2.2 million – as live within that distance of the Indian Point Nuclear Station outside New York City. Both New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have called for the shutdown of the aging Indian Point station.
We’ve outlined a myriad of reasons  <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVA5EBwcHGlQ> – from high costs and poor performance to safer and cheaper alternatives – in a new report  <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVA5EBwcHGlQ> we’ve developed to help Toronto’s Executive Committee make an informed decision.
Councillors Glenn De Baeremaeker and Gord Perks have gotten the ball rolling on this important issue by bringing the motion forward. Now it’s your turn. Here’s what you can do:
1. Send a message to Mayor Tory <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVAFEBwcHGlQ>  and ask him to request the Government of Ontario close the Pickering Nuclear Station in 2018 when its licence expires.
2. Please pass this message on to your friends. <http://cleanair.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php?id=f0wOVA9EBwcHGlQ> 
3. Consider sending your own message to one or more of the Mayor's Executive Committee members, particularly if you live in the ward they represent (full list below).

Paul Ainslie
councillor_ainslie at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_ainslie at toronto.ca>  

Ana Bailão
councillor_bailao at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_bailao at toronto.ca>  

Gary Crawford
councillor_crawford at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_crawford at toronto.ca>  

Frank Di Giorgio
councillor_digiorgio at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_digiorgio at toronto.ca>  

Mary-Margaret McMahon
councillor_mcmahon at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_mcmahon at toronto.ca>  

Cesar Palacio
councillor_palacio at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_palacio at toronto.ca>  

James Pasternak
councillor_pasternak at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_pasternak at toronto.ca>  

David Shiner
councillor_shiner at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_shiner at toronto.ca>  

Jaye Robinson
councillor_robinson at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_robinson at toronto.ca>  

Michael Thompson
councillor_thompson at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_thompson at toronto.ca> 

Denzil Minnan-Wong
councillor_minnan-wong at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_minnan-wong at toronto.ca> 

Michelle Holland
councillor_holland at toronto.ca <mailto:councillor_holland at toronto.ca>  
 
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Thank you!
Angela Bischoff, Outreach Director
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