<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv528175776"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Hi folks</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440952"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440952"><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Lots of interesting Enviro news happening. Here's a quick overview.</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440952"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440952"><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Lulu</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: small;">re: Oil</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_1325791256609115"></span></div><div
id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: small;">PEAK OIL: Oil Prices moving to Red Alert</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="yiv528175776Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660986">Despite the European crisis, near-recession in the US, recession in Japan and falling growth in China and India </span><span class="yiv528175776Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_1325791256609102">IEA's estimate shows how oil prices levered up through 2011. </span><span class="yiv528175776Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_1325791256609131">The IEA presents what it calls unfavourable scenarios able to bring $200 a barrel oil by as early as 2015-2017 - without any special geopolitical tensions or pressure.</span></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.forexpros.com/analysis/oil-prices:-moving-to-red-alert-110346" id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660952" style="font-size: small;">http://www.forexpros.com/analysis/oil-prices:-moving-to-red-alert-110346</a></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chevron looses appeal</span> and must pay $18 Billion for clean up in the Amazon: Largest fine in history for environmental infringements...so far. </span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/317330" id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_1325791256609198">http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/317330</a></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><br></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="color: rgb(68,
68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><span style="font-weight: bold;">US oil sands project folds</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> after they observed problems facing Alberta’s oil producers</span> re: regulatory approval delays, intense competition for services, supplies and staffing affecting costs.</span><br></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/04/connacher-ceo-cfo-depart-company-suspends-oil-sands-project/">http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/04/connacher-ceo-cfo-depart-company-suspends-oil-sands-project/</a></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><br></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Stop the Tar Sands UW : This brand new club just opened up! </span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: small; ">Follow them on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/180829612000248/" style="direction: ltr; ">http://www.facebook.com/groups/180829612000248/</a></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: small; ">Follow them on Twitter at: <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; direction: ltr;
">@StopTarSandsUW</span></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: small; ">To join their mailing list email <span style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "> Paisley Cozzarin <</span><a ymailto="mailto:paisleycozzarin@gmail.com" href="mailto:paisleycozzarin@gmail.com" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; ">paisleycozzarin@gmail.com</a><span style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); ">></span></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "
class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: 13px; ">_____________________________________________</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yui_3_2_0_14_132579193440972"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; ">re: Canada's rejection of Kyoto & Litigation</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;">Canada is in violation of
law with rejection of Kyoto</span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/canada-climate-criminal/blog/38567/" id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_1325791256609222">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/canada-climate-criminal/blog/38567/</a><br id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_1325791256609217"></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv528175776yui_3_2_0_14_132579125660940" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><h3 class="deck" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">Former MP Daniel Turp plans legal challenge against Conservative government</span></h3><h3 class="deck" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image:
initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/04/daniel-turp-legal-action-conservatives-kyoto-protocol.html" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; direction: ltr; ">http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/04/daniel-turp-legal-action-conservatives-kyoto-protocol.html</a></h3><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">____________________________________</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><span
style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">re: Climate Change and Harp Seal Populations</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><span style="direction: ltr; ">Harp Seals dying due to Climate Change: Thinning ice,declining 6% each year is dramatically killing off Canada's Harp Seal pups. Expert David Johnson from Duke University states entire year classes may be dying off: years when every pup dies. </span>Lack of Sea Ice means unusually short 12-day nursing periods from Harp Seal mothers in order to adapt to the spring melt.</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); font-size: small;"><a
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/04/sci-harp-seals.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/04/sci-harp-seals.html</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">______________________________________</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-weight: bold;">re: Canada's lack of Environmental Enforcement:</span> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span
style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Environment Canada took over 20 yrs to collect $2.4M in fines regarding CEPA violations. Meanwhile Toronto Public Library got $2.6M in fines for overdue books in 2009...That's pitiful.</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/federal-government-failing-to-enforce-canada2019s-environmental-laws-report" style="font-size: 13px; ">http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/federal-government-failing-to-enforce-canada2019s-environmental-laws-report</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
">______________________________________</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 30px; direction: ltr; ">Was Baupost’s Mega-Quarry Investment A Mega-Mistake?</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div><span style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; ">The most likely scenario is that community opposition combined with the record magnitude of the project will prompt the environmental audit Highland is trying to avoid. Even if the findings are benign, the exercise alone would delay approval, dashing hopes for a near-term project start. In the
(more likely) event that environmental impacts are found, it will spell more bad news for Highland. If the stakes are too high, the project may be rejected, leaving Baupost and other large investors to suffer a loss. Even if the project moves forward, any environmental citations will be costly, reducing net profits and limiting Baupost’s overall return.</span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Read more: <a href="http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/01/21634/#ixzz1icP6XmcM" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/01/21634/#ixzz1icP6XmcM</a></span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">_______________________________________</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">re: Lake Erie</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);
font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Stop fall/winter applications of fertilizer & manure, Don't add phosphorus above the level of agri. need, prohibit fertilizer 48 hours of rain were some of the suggestions voiced at a forum on the health of Lake Erie. Great tips like this should be enshrined in law. Read more here: </span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/12/09/Lake-Erie-algae-woes-heard.html">http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/12/09/Lake-Erie-algae-woes-heard.html</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; ">2011: Lake Erie suffers worst Algae Blooms in History. <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; direction: ltr; ">“People could set beer cans on the algae. It is that thick.” </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/newshound/2011/12/lake-erie-suffers-worst-algae-blooms-history" style="direction: ltr; ">http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/newshound/2011/12/lake-erie-suffers-worst-algae-blooms-history</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">That's all for now folks.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Lulu :0)</div><div
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