<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Happy Earth Day! Lots of interesting things happening.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>International News</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:
16px;"><span><br></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Over 1 million people wrote to the US president to say no to the Keystone XL</span></span></span></span><br><a href="http://priceofoil.org/2013/04/22/1-million-comments-to-stop-the-keystonexl-pipeline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OilChange+(Oil+Change)">http://priceofoil.org/2013/04/22/1-million-comments-to-stop-the-keystonexl-pipeline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OilChange+(Oil+Change)</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has once again rebuked the State
Department over its positive environmental assessment of TransCanada's
proposed Keystone XL pipeline.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/once+again+criticizes+State+Departments+review+Keystone/8279283/story.html?cid=dlvr.it-twitter-edmontonjournal">http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/once+again+criticizes+State+Departments+review+Keystone/8279283/story.html?cid=dlvr.it-twitter-edmontonjournal</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">National News</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:
16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span>Manitoba strengthens laws to protect rare species and habitats. </span></span></span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The Manitoba government is increasing fines against those who tamper with endangered species in this province.</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><br>"The fines are going, for example from 50-thousand to 250-thousand for a corporation. As well we're
increasing from 5-thousand to 50-thousand for an individual. Those will be maximum fines."</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><br>Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh tells CJOB new legislation being introduced today will also allow courts to seize any profits made by collecting endangered wildlife.</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 13px;"><br>The legislation would allow for entire ecosystems to be classified as endangered, not just specific plants and animals. Mackintosh says that would be a first in North America. <br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cjob.com/news/winnipeg/story.aspx?ID=1942790" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px none;">http://www.cjob.com/news/winnipeg/story.aspx?ID=1942790</a></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Message from Governor General</span><br>The governor general delivered an unusually blunt environmental message
for Earth Day Monday, calling on Canadians not be “plunderers of the
earth.”<br><a href="http://www.canada.com/plunder+nature+governor+general+warns+Earth/8276689/story.html#ixzz2RD4lvFUk">http://www.canada.com/plunder+nature+governor+general+warns+Earth/8276689/story.html#ixzz2RD4lvFUk</a><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">National Energy Board Strengthens Rules for Oil Pipelines</span><br>Nathan Lemphers of the Pembina Institute, an environmental policy
think-tank, said the new regulations are a clear improvement that will
force companies to better manage their pipelines. The old rules lacked clarity and accountability around safety and environmental management, he said. <a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/National+Energy+Board+says+strengthened+rules+make+pipelines/8273705/story.html#ixzz2RFhPnnCY">http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/National+Energy+Board+says+strengthened+rules+make+pipelines/8273705/story.html#ixzz2RFhPnnCY</a><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><br>FIPA UPDATE</span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span><span>Both the Liberals and Tories voted against an NDP motion to quash the China-Canada free trade agreement. </span><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="http://www.vancouverobserver.com/tags/china-canada-fipa/parliament-votes-against-ndp-motion-stop-fipa">http://www.vancouverobserver.com/tags/china-canada-fipa/parliament-votes-against-ndp-motion-stop-fipa</a></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">but...</span><span> The Hupacasath First Nation filed affidavits for its case against FIPA, which the band maintains will infringe on preexisting aboriginal rights to resources.</span><br><a href="http://www.vancouverobserver.com/world/canada/dont-expect-canada-china-fipa-anytime-soon-sinofile">http://www.vancouverobserver.com/world/canada/dont-expect-canada-china-fipa-anytime-soon-sinofile</a><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Canadian Federal Government Reveals Oil Sands Monitoring Info</span><br>Here is the link folks: <a href="http://www.jointoilsandsmonitoring.ca/pages/latestdata.aspx?lang=en">http://www.jointoilsandsmonitoring.ca/pages/latestdata.aspx?lang=en</a><br><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>Provincial News</span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner wrote an editorial for Huffington Post to help protect Ontario farmland and water resources</span>. <br>He states "Only 5 per cent of Ontario’s land mass is suitable for growing food. Even Less--0.5%--is prime farmland. <span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet from 2006 to 2011, Ontario lost 636,000 acres of farmland. Ontario cannot sustain an annual loss of 127,000 acres of Land per year: an area larger than the City of Toronto. Full article here: <br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mike-schreiner/ontario-farmland_b_3131272.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mike-schreiner/ontario-farmland_b_3131272.html</a></span></span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Local Food Act</span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">MPP's debated the second reading of Bill C36 Local
Food Act.</span> To view the bill visit here: <a href="http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=2754&detailPage=bills_detail_the_bill">http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=2754&detailPage=bills_detail_the_bill</a> Catherine Fife is the only local MPP who has participated in the debates. To view her comments visit here: <a href="http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2013/04/22/mpps-debate-local-food-act">http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2013/04/22/mpps-debate-local-food-act</a><br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>Local News</span></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>A list of local Earth Day events is posted on the KW Record's website here:</span> <a
href="http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/920371--earth-day-activities-abound-across-region">http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/920371--earth-day-activities-abound-across-region</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></body></html>