<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi folks! Here's the latest in enviro news:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">International News</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 per cent of the global total </span><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;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/report-links-millions-of-deaths-to-chinese-air-pollution/article10653234/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/report-links-millions-of-deaths-to-chinese-air-pollution/article10653234/</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Oil firms tried to appeal
new stronger EPA smog regulations and the US supreme court denied the appeal. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-01/oil-industry-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-air-quality-rules.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-01/oil-industry-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-air-quality-rules.html</a><br></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;">National</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;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deepening honey be</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">e crisis creates worry over food supply </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;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57577668/deepening-honey-bee-crisis-creates-worry-over-food-supply/?tag=socsh">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57577668/deepening-honey-bee-crisis-creates-worry-over-food-supply/?tag=socsh</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;">Scientists link Alberta Tar Sands fish deformities to similar deformities seen in Gulf Spill and Exxon Valdez oil spill</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.vancouversun.com/news/Scientist+links+crude+fish+deformities+asks+Canada/8190313/story.html">http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Scientist+links+crude+fish+deformities+asks+Canada/8190313/story.html</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); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pembina Report: Canada would have to reduce oil and gas use by 42% to meet emissions targets. Article here: </span><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://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/02/carbon-emissions-canada-oil-gas_n_2999660.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/02/carbon-emissions-canada-oil-gas_n_2999660.html</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;">Full Report here: <a href="http://www.pembina.org/pub/2427">http://www.pembina.org/pub/2427</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-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px;">The time for Fort McMurray to plan for a post-oil world is now. That was the message economist Ernesto Sirolli, founder of the Sirolli institute and critic of modern foreign aid programs, brought to the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce</span><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://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2013/04/01/chamber-of-commerce-speaker-urges-decreased-reliance-on-oil">http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2013/04/01/chamber-of-commerce-speaker-urges-decreased-reliance-on-oil</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;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">A Canadian Oil Sands Project Was Just Dumped by a France investor at a $1.65 Billion Loss</span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/total-dumps-canadian-oil-sands-project-for-165bn-loss-2013-3">http://www.businessinsider.com/total-dumps-canadian-oil-sands-project-for-165bn-loss-2013-3</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The Canadian Federal Information Commissioner is going to investigate policies that muzzle government scientists. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/information-watchdog-to-investigate-policies-that-muzzle-goverment-scientists-1.1219341">http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/information-watchdog-to-investigate-policies-that-muzzle-goverment-scientists-1.1219341</a><br></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;">Provincial</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;">How Ontario is putting an end to coal powered plants. </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://e360.yale.edu/feature/how_ontario_is_putting_an_end_to_coal-burning_power_plants/2635/#.UVsWeS2rhcI.twitter">http://e360.yale.edu/feature/how_ontario_is_putting_an_end_to_coal-burning_power_plants/2635/#.UVsWeS2rhcI.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: small;">Lake Erie Algae Blooms putting people and ecosystems at risk:</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.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/lake-erie-algae-blooms_n_2994304.html?utm_hp_ref=tw">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/lake-erie-algae-blooms_n_2994304.html?utm_hp_ref=tw</a><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;"><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;">Local</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;">Sustainable Waterloo's letter of support for Region of Waterloo's Growth Plans</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;"><a href="http://www.sustainablewaterlooregion.ca/our-programs/policy-engagement/regional-smart-growth-plan/">http://www.sustainablewaterlooregion.ca/our-programs/policy-engagement/regional-smart-growth-plan/</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Enbridge Line 9 oil pipeline Telephone Townhall meeting by Ecojustice is taking place on April 9. Details here:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://environmentaldefence.ca/join-our-line-9-telephone-town-hall-april-9">http://environmentaldefence.ca/join-our-line-9-telephone-town-hall-april-9</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">April 9, Stop GM Alfalfa rally at Constituency Office of Peter Braid. 22 King St. South, Waterloo Ont. Noon til 1pm. Guelph event as well. Info here:
</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/GE-Crops-and-Foods-Not-on-the-Market/Alfalfa/Day-of-Action-to-Stop-GM-Alfalfa-April-9">http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/GE-Crops-and-Foods-Not-on-the-Market/Alfalfa/Day-of-Action-to-Stop-GM-Alfalfa-April-9</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-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Petitions</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;">Tell Suncor to bump up it's spill protection <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/suncor-spill/?sub=tw">http://action.sumofus.org/a/suncor-spill/?sub=tw</a></span></div></div></body></html>