<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi folks</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">INTERNATIONAL NEWS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Report from Australia's Sydney University states wind turbine syndrome is bogus. </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://grist.org/news/researchers-find-that-wind-turbine-syndrome-is-bogus/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=mill">http://grist.org/news/researchers-find-that-wind-turbine-syndrome-is-bogus/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=mill</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FEDERAL NEWS</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">German scientists are leaving the Tar Sands and boy they are not pulling any punches. Here are some excerpts</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">: </span></span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“As an environmental research centre we have an independent role as an honest broker and doing research in this constellation could have had reputational problems for us, especially after Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol,” he said. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> ‘tail ponds’- toxic lakes that now cover up to 176 square kilometers of Alberta.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Canada’s energy and climate policy is not accepted by the international community, especially Germany,” Messner said.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Environmentalists say that by 2020, a planned expansion in Alberta’s tar sands operation would sprawl to an area the size of Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland
combined. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">in 2011 an EU report from Adam Brandt, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University found oil sands are between 12-40% higher than conventional crude, with the most likely barrel being 22% more carbon intensive. Link to that report is here: <a href="https://circabc.europa.eu/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/db806977-6418-44db-a464-20267139b34d/Brandt_Oil_Sands_GHGs_Final.pdf">https://circabc.europa.eu/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/db806977-6418-44db-a464-20267139b34d/Brandt_Oil_Sands_GHGs_Final.pdf</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> “A number of high level EU decision makers have stated that the Canadian lobbying effort goes beyond what is considered acceptable,” Darek Urbaniak of Friends of the Earth told EurActiv. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FULL ARTICLE
HERE: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/german-research-institute-pulls-news-518608#.UUiIhToF8VI.twitter">http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/german-research-institute-pulls-news-518608#.UUiIhToF8VI.twitter</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To view what <span style="font-weight: bold;">appears to be a <span>censored</span></span> CTV version, visit here: <a
href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/german-scientists-quit-oilsands-project-over-climate-concerns-1.1202087#commentsForm-379478">http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/german-scientists-quit-oilsands-project-over-climate-concerns-1.1202087#commentsForm-379478</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Environment Canada observed Diluted Bitumen does sink but...Harper killed their study before completion.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130314/tar-sands-dilbit-sinks-enbridge-oil-spill-floats-its-lab-study" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px;">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130314/tar-sands-dilbit-sinks-enbridge-oil-spill-floats-its-lab-study</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 23px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Emails reveal Environment Canada officers can't do their jobs to enforce air pollution laws due to budget cuts.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 23px; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a
href="http://o.canada.com/2013/03/17/federal-budget-cuts-undermine-mandate-of-environmental-enforcement-branch-emails/">http://o.canada.com/2013/03/17/federal-budget-cuts-undermine-mandate-of-environmental-enforcement-branch-emails/</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 23px; font-weight: bold;">“The government’s clean air mandate has clearly been compromised by their ideological hack-job of federal scientific </span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px;">capacity.”</span><span style="line-height: 23px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 23px;">says </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 23px;">Halifax MP Megan Leslie, the NDP’s environment critic.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 23px;"> </span><a href="http://o.canada.com/2013/03/19/ndps-megan-leslie-says-emails-confirm-ideological-hack-job-at-environment-canada/#.UUjz1zAB_A-.twitter" style="background-color: transparent;">http://o.canada.com/2013/03/19/ndps-megan-leslie-says-emails-confirm-ideological-hack-job-at-environment-canada/#.UUjz1zAB_A-.twitter</a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It cost 25 times the operating costs to close the Experimental Lakes project.</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;"><a href="http://canadians.org/media/water/2013/15-Mar-13.html#.UUMrvbfjhow.twitter" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">http://canadians.org/media/water/2013/15-Mar-13.html#.UUMrvbfjhow.twitter</a><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span>Idle</span><span><span> No More UPDATE</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0,
0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The founders and its chapters across the country have issued a call to build mounting pressure, including through mass non-violent direct actions to be joined by non-natives, to challenge “the Harper government and the corporate agenda.” Details here: </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.defendersoftheland.org/story/318">http://www.defendersoftheland.org/story/318</a><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PROVINCIAL NEWS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ontario's Supreme Court says Ontario has the right to take up First Nation's treaty lands for mining and forestry</span>, </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Court says that the province
doesn't need Federal permission to do this.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/court-rules-ontario-has-right-to-take-up-treaty-land-for-mining-forestry/article9913990/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/court-rules-ontario-has-right-to-take-up-treaty-land-for-mining-forestry/article9913990/</a><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOCAL NEWS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ClimateActionWR has a new website!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ClimateActionWR is discussing ways to build a more resilient Waterloo Region. Official website here: </span><a href="http://www.climateactionwr.ca/">http://www.climateactionwr.ca/</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Forum 1 took place today at Knox Church encouraging NGO's, industry and public to collaborate with municipal officials in coming up with local climate change solutions. It was an overview of the program, an introduction into a new Climate Change Policy for the Region and a workshop on ways to move towards greater sustainability objectives. Next sessions are on Thursday at the Museum in Kitchener and on Monday at Cambridge City Hall. Pre-registrations can be done online here: </span><a href="http://www.climateactionwr.ca/participate/community-forums/" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">http://www.climateactionwr.ca/participate/community-forums/</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PERSONAL OPINION: The program </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;">appeared to be geared towards "marketing the region"</span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">as being sustainable. It is working with provincial growth targets as being absolute rather than optional. (50% population growth anticipated) It seemed very clear the staff were seeking comments based on a list of "pre-designated issues" rather than opening up dialogue on "should we grow" or "what is our geological carrying capacity" approach but none the less, people are given a form to give comment on the new strategy and there is room to tuck in ideas in there.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px;">One of the key issues that was not discussed was the Lake Erie pipeline but there was strong support for the Region's current battle to support the official plan at the OMB. That was very good to see but experts on the panel did admit if that OMB process fails, we're pretty much screwed. That's not what they said verbatim but it is what it is. Either way, it was good to see GREN folks there and I think we really need to send the message that sustainability within geological carrying capacity should be given top priority. A Similar message to what was shared with the GRCA's water budget masterplan would be good: Plan within carrying capacity and protect source areas and farmlands for generations to come. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PETITIONS</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Support Great Lakes protection with Environmental Defence </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><a href="http://environmentaldefence.ca/take-action-twenty-cent-world%E2%80%99s-freshwater-needs-you" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px;">http://environmentaldefence.ca/take-action-twenty-cent-world%E2%80%99s-freshwater-needs-you</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Avaaz petition to Ban Shark Fin Trade in Canada <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Canada_Time_to_Ban_the_Shark_Fin_Trade/?wSvafab">http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Canada_Time_to_Ban_the_Shark_Fin_Trade/?wSvafab</a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Have a good one everybody! </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-size:
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