<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Hi folks</font></span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">The Royal Society of Canada has published their tar sands report online that can be viewed here:<br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.rsc-src.ca/expertpanels_reports.php">http://www.rsc-src.ca/expertpanels_reports.php</a></div></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Criticism of the report came swiftly. Clayton Thomas-Muller, Tar Sands Campaigner of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "This situation violates International Human rights
laws and Canada's own constitutional laws pertaining to First Nations rights." To view the press release in full, visit here:</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/node/3554">http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/node/3554</a></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pembina's response: "Now we are anxiously awaiting the report of a federal panel, also set up to review Alberta's monitoring of pollutants downstream from the oilsands. The report is also due this week." They go on to state: Peer reviewed studies </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">by David Schindler, an internationally renowned water expert, and his team found elevated levels of toxins downstream from oilsands operations.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.pembina.org/blog/450">http://www.pembina.org/blog/450</a></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If I catch wind of the link to the federal panel's report, I'll be sure to relay. </font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Have a good one everybody.</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Lulu :0)</font></div></td></tr></table>