<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6218">GREN News</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6939"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7493">Local</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6800">Puslinch upset about being left out of the Waterloo Regional Water Supply Masterplan discussions. They are concerned </font><span style="line-height: 18.8999996185303px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6836"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6843">Puslinch residents may lose their wells because of a draw down from a well in Cambridge.</font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6937"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6936"><span style="line-height: 18.8999977111816px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6935"><a href="http://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/comments/index.cfm?articleID=24609" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6886">http://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/comments/index.cfm?articleID=24609</a></span><br></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6403">Warmer than usual winter leads to unusual bird finds in Waterloo Region during annual bird count.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/warmer-climate-yields-unusual-sightings-in-kitchener-bird-count-1.2930078" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6543">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/warmer-climate-yields-unusual-sightings-in-kitchener-bird-count-1.2930078</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3699"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6219">Provincial News </font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6348"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6347">Ontario Beekeepers final submission in regards to Ontario Neonicotinoid Ban. </font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6234"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6233"><a href="http://www.ontariobee.com/sites/ontariobee.com/files/Consultation-response-Jan22-final.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6235">http://www.ontariobee.com/sites/ontariobee.com/files/Consultation-response-Jan22-final.pdf</a><br></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6220">Wildlands League, Ontario Nature & Ecojustice vs. Ontario Government re: Provincial weakening of Species At Risk Act. Case has been heard. Just awaiting final judgement. Summery here: </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/anna-baggio/ontario-endangered-species_b_6531998.html?utm_hp_ref=tw" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3550"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6225">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/anna-baggio/ontario-endangered-species_b_6531998.html?utm_hp_ref=tw</font></a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); letter-spacing: 0.259999990463257px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3773"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6221">Ontario waste blamed for Ohio algae issues </font></span><a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/25/ontario-waste-blamed-for-tainted-ohio-drinking-water" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7041" style="font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.259999990463257px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/25/ontario-waste-blamed-for-tainted-ohio-drinking-water</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5322" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5321">Ontario Energy Board admits TransCanada Energy East applicarion is "incomplete"</span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></font><a href="http://www.nugget.ca/2015/01/21/provinces-efforts-fail-to-satisfy-crowd" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5251" style="line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.nugget.ca/2015/01/21/provinces-efforts-fail-to-satisfy-crowd</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5797" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5796">Sierra Club Lawsuit Targets Enbridge Line 5 Oil Pipeline heading to Sarnia Ontario</span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></font><a href="http://mynorth.com/2015/01/sierra-club-lawsuit-targets-massive-oil-pipeline/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5841" style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://mynorth.com/2015/01/sierra-club-lawsuit-targets-massive-oil-pipeline/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6986"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6985">National</font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6224">Over 30 Canadian Universities now have divestment campaigns. Great info on page 2 of successes. </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7386"><a href="http://ht.ly/HVkry" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7125">http://ht.ly/HVkry</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7047"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7046">International </font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><b><font size="3"><br></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6159"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); letter-spacing: 0.259999990463257px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5885">Bank of England, Goldman Sachs, Standard and Poor’s & Axa IM,warn of climate change & fossil fuel prices</span><b><br></b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6158"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/bp-challenged-confront-climate-change-risk-by-shareholders?CMP=share_btn_tw" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6055">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/21/bp-challenged-confront-climate-change-risk-by-shareholders?CMP=share_btn_tw</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6180"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); letter-spacing: 0.259999990463257px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3751">Goldman Sachs: falling oil will move 1.6 trillion in savings to other sectors </span></font><a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/falling-oil-prices-will-help-consumers-and-goldman-sachs-gary-cohn-says/?_r=0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_4701" style="font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.259999990463257px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/falling-oil-prices-will-help-consumers-and-goldman-sachs-gary-cohn-says/?_r=0</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font class="" style="" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6157"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); letter-spacing: 0.259999990463257px; line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_4418"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_4419">Boston's leaky natural gas pipelines release 15 BILLION cubic tones of gas each year = 90 million annually yet l</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_4736">eaks of natural gas from distribution have not been analysed in US climate policy strategy. </span><br></span><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150123110758.htm" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_4561">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150123110758.htm</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6156"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5410">Ocean warming is occurring so rapidly that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has had to remake its graphs.</span><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6155"><font color="#292f33" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5371"><span style="line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5370"><a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/oceans-are-warming-so-fast-they-keep-zooming-off-science-charts/article/424328" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5367">http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/oceans-are-warming-so-fast-they-keep-zooming-off-science-charts/article/424328</a></span></font><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font color="#292f33" class="" style=""><br></font></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><font color="#292f33" class="" style=""><br></font></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7238"><font color="#292f33" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7237"><b>Take Action:</b></font></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font color="#292f33" class="" style="" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_6181"><font color="#292f33" class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5602"><span style="line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5628">Petition Ontario government to require mandatory labeling of products containing carcinogens (Environmental Defence)</span><br></font><a href="http://action.environmentaldefence.ca/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11966" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_5735">http://action.environmentaldefence.ca/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11966</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Stop Energy East (Council of Canadians) <a href="https://secure.canadians.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1899&ea.campaign.id=31200" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7387">https://secure.canadians.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1899&ea.campaign.id=31200</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Support Climate Fee and Dividend for Ontario (Green Party) <a href="http://www.gpo.ca/issue-campaign-active/carbon-fee-and-dividend-petition" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_7440">http://www.gpo.ca/issue-campaign-active/carbon-fee-and-dividend-petition</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif" class="" style=""><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Upcoming Dates 2015</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Feb. 13 & 14: 350.org's Global Divestment Day</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">April 14: Premiers meet in Quebec</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">April 22: Earth Day/World Water Day</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">May 10: Pope Francis Encyclical on Climate Change</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">May 31-June 6: Canadian Environment Week </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">July 7-9: Summit of the Americas/Climate Change Meeting </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Oct. 19: Fed Election</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Nov. 30-Dec 11: Paris COP </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Have a good one!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422327707378_3372" dir="ltr">Lulu :0)</div></div></body></html>