<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi folks</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Wow. Lots happening folks. GREAT news happening in Ontario.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Here's the update on Global, Canadian and Provincial issues as well as links to online petitions.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b>Global news: </b></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Cadmium discharge from a mining company in two rivers in southern China 3.7 million in Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water. The emergency is sparking a demand for bottled water. </span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.canada.com/health/China+cadmium+spill+threatens+drinking+water+millions/6062731/story.html">http://www.canada.com/health/China+cadmium+spill+threatens+drinking+water+millions/6062731/story.html</a><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Doctors in the US are
calling for a moritorium on "fracking" until health studies can be conducted to see if the practice is safe.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-18/fracking-moratorium-urged-as-doctors-call-for-health-study.html">http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-18/fracking-moratorium-urged-as-doctors-call-for-health-study.html</a><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">In Obama's state of the nation speech, he wants to expand natural gas extraction, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-energy-20120127,0,5852352.story" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';
">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-energy-20120127,0,5852352.story</a> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">On CBC radio I heard the US is working with covert trucking from diesel to cleaner natural gas. The </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">US trucking fleet uses 30% of the US diesel and if they can convert the vehicals to US sourced natural gas, it will negate the need to secure </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">petroleum </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">products from Saudi Arabia. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">California successfully passes new car
emission regulations. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/car-makers-support-califs-clean-car-regs-15454269#.TyMuLTj3Wn0.twitter">http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/car-makers-support-califs-clean-car-regs-15454269#.TyMuLTj3Wn0.twitter</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">A comprehensive review of public health studies conducted near wind turbines in the United States and Europe was released recently in Massachusetts. T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; ">he report ably demonstrates, wind turbines are safe and the health-related claims of project opponents are unsubstantiated.</span></div><div><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><a href="http://www.awea.org/newsroom/pressreleases/statement_Massachusetts_health_study.cfm">http://www.awea.org/newsroom/pressreleases/statement_Massachusetts_health_study.cfm</a><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">2% of the heat from Volcanoes taken six miles below the ground could provide 2,500 times as much energy as the US currently uses!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><a
href="http://www.energydigital.com/renewable_energy/volcanos-new-source-of-geothermal-energy">http://www.energydigital.com/renewable_energy/volcanos-new-source-of-geothermal-energy</a><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>Canadian News</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; ">On Twitter: MP Linda Duncan tweeted that the National Energy Board tells the Dene First Nations: they will NOT be considering impacts of tar sands as impact of gateway pipeline</span></font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Oil Sands conflicts with PM Harper's promises to reduce green house gas by 65% by 2050</span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Pipeline+supporters+need+remember+elephant+room/6060005/story.html">http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Pipeline+supporters+need+remember+elephant+room/6060005/story.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div>Documents secured by Freedom of Information shows the Federal Government views First Nations groups, NGO's and environmentalists are
"ADVARSARIES" to the oil sands. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">.</span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/26/pol-oilsands-campaign.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/26/pol-oilsands-campaign.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Canadian CEO told by Prime Minister’s Office, ForestEthics is an “Enemy of the Government of Canada,” and an “Enemy of the people of Canada. The whistle blower who worked with the Prime Minister's office, put his sworn statements online so the public could see what was happening behind the
scenes. </span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/79228736/Whistleblower-s-Open-Letter-to-Canadians">http://www.scribd.com/doc/79228736/Whistleblower-s-Open-Letter-to-Canadians</a><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>MP Joe Oliver earlier this week stated Foreign interests and radicals were "hijacking" planning projects. Since then the groups he mentioned, aka Friends of the Environment and Greenpeace, <b>have had overwhelming support by way of public donations</b>! <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/01/27/pol-cp-radical-environmental-groups.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/01/27/pol-cp-radical-environmental-groups.html</a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Provincial News - VERY GOOD NEWS!!!</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div>Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Liberals are cleaning up our province with green energy and the proof is in the latest Ontario Progress Report. Here are the highlights: <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; ">The Liberals are on schedule to eliminating Ontario emissions from coal-fired power plants by 2014 which will remove emissions equal to 7 million cars. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">There will no longer be coal-fired power generation in Ontario.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Ontario’s coal-fired electricity generation in 2011, just 2.7% of our
electricity generation was coal-fired, our lowest level since 1961.<br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Shutting down coal in Ontario will save health care $3 billion/year by preventing illness costs of smog.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Ontario introduced more than 2,000 megawatts from sustainable, renewable sources in 2011<br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);
font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Green Energy Act, Ontario has created more than 13,000 clean energy jobs in Ontario currently and will generate</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "> 50,000 jobs by the end of 2012 </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Green Energy Act in Ont: 21,000 contracts for small, medium & large clean energy projects & about $13 billion in private sector investment,<br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial,
'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ontario is Canada’s leader inwind power, going from 10 turbines in 2003 to over 900, enough to power 350,000 homes</span><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Ontario has more than 200 MW of solar capacity online, producing enough electricityeach year to power more than 30,000 homes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Ontario has saved over 1,700 megawatts of electricity since 2005; enough to power more than half a million homes!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">To view the report in full visit here: </span><a
href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/77028509/Ontario-Progress-Report-2011">http://www.scribd.com/doc/77028509/Ontario-Progress-Report-2011</a></div><div>To view an info graph regarding the report visit here: <a href="http://stephaniepoce.carbonmade.com/projects/3806899">http://stephaniepoce.carbonmade.com/projects/3806899</a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><b>Hydro Power in Ontario and the Niagara Tunnel</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height:
19px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Since 2003, more than 100 megawatts of new/refurbished water power projects have come online in Ontario - enough power for about 50,000 homes. More hydroelectric power will be added to Ontario's electricity system in the next eight years than over the previous 40 years. The main source of it is the Niagara tunnel which is being established at Niagara Falls. The four story facility will gather hydro power right at the falls. The project has</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "> employed 400 people and created $1 billion in economic benefits
to the region. System lasts at least 100 years! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; ">The Niagara Tunnel will power 160,000 homes with renewable hydro power. To be finished in 2013. Read more about this project here: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); "><a
href="http://www.altenergymag.com/news/2012/01/19/ontario39s-niagara-tunnel-project-reaches-construction-milestone/22916#.TyJdtc1NTBw.twitter">http://www.altenergymag.com/news/2012/01/19/ontario39s-niagara-tunnel-project-reaches-construction-milestone/22916#.TyJdtc1NTBw.twitter</a><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b>Online petitions </b></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Canada is about to spend billions on new oil sands projects, pipelines, nuclear and fossil-fuel power stations, hydroelectric dams, solar projects, and wind farms. But as
we prepare to generate more energy, it makes sense to </span><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; "><b>save energy first</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; ">. To support a conservation of energy first plan, sign this online petition here: </span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande',
tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; "><a href="http://saveecoenergy.ca/save-energy-first">http://saveecoenergy.ca/save-energy-first</a><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Lead Now has a petition telling MNR MP Joe Oliver to put Canada's best interests before oil industry profits. (This petition is getting enormous support online.) </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><a href="http://leadnow.ca/canadas-interests">http://leadnow.ca/canadas-interests</a><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size:
15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(146, 166, 68, 0.0898438); ">Want CBC in Waterloo Region? Call your MP! If you live in Waterloo it's MP Peter Braid at 519-746-1573 & Kitchener MP Woodworth 519-579-240</span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Have a great weekend folks!</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Lulu :0)</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div></div></body></html>