<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/17/11, Council of Canadians Guelph Chapter <i><CouncilOfCanadians@coc-guelph.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Council of Canadians Guelph Chapter <CouncilOfCanadians@coc-guelph.ca><br>Subject: CoC Guelph Update<br>To: CouncilOfCanadians@coc-guelph.ca<br>Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 11:46 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1123787813"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></b>
<p class="yiv1123787813MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;">ACTION
ALERT: <b><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/action/2011/MaximCoal.html">Tell
Environment Minister Peter Kent to keep his
government’s promise</a></span></b></span></b></p>
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<p class="yiv1123787813MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;">MEDIA
RELEASE: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/media/water/2011/16-Aug-11.html">TransCanada
admits
Keystone Pipeline could be used for bulk water removals</a></span></b></p>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/blog/?p=10027" title="Permanent
Link to Council of Canadians opposes approval of new coal
plant">Council of Canadians opposes approval of new coal
plant</a></span></b><br>
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By <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/blog/?author=9" title="Posts by
Scott Harris">Scott Harris</a></span></p>
<p><span>National
Chairperson Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians today
joined more than 40 organizations from across Canada in
sending an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/letter-to-minister-kent-re-maxim-coal.pdf">open
letter</a> to federal Environment Minister Peter Kent urging
him to launch an immediate review of the proposal from
Calgary-based Maxim power to build a 500 megawatt coal plant
at its Milner site near Grande Cache, Alberta. </span></p>
<p class="yiv1123787813MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/blog/?p=10025" title="Permanent
Link to CMA Releases Summary Report of National Town Hall
Meetings">CMA Releases Summary Report of National Town
Hall Meetings</a></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br>
By <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://canadians.org/blog/?author=6" title="Posts by
Adrienne Silnicki">Adrienne Silnicki</a></span></p>
<p class="yiv1123787813MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Yesterday,
the Canadian Medical Association released a summary of their
series of national town hall meetings, which occurred earlier
this year. Starting in Halifax the town halls were held in
several major Canadian cities including: Toronto, Edmonton, La
Prairie (Montreal), Vancouver (our own Ava Waxman was quoted
in the summary which starts off with “to much applause, a
representative of the Council for Canadians…”), and Ottawa. </span></p>
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