<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_1430167210387_7273" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7375">Lots of great info in this news release including a quick sign petition with David Suzuki re: Neonics</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7273" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7273" dir="ltr"><span>Lulu </span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7276"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7275"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7274"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7277"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) <dali@cela.ca><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> butterflybluelu@rogers.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 27, 2015 10:05 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> CELA's latest news for April 2015<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430167210387_7278"><br><div id="yiv7695747175">
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<span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:24px;">Welcome to CELA’s April 2015 Bulletin</span></span></span></strong></span><br>
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<div style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;"><div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">ACTION ALERT: Show your support for restricting neonic pesticides in Ontario</span></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">May 7th is the deadline for responding to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=88d35b0685&e=1d9682cf38" style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">Ontario's consultation</a> on a regulation to restrict neonicotinoid ("neonics") pesticides. </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">CELA </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=b967452f87&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">supports this regulation</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"> that </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">will classify treated seeds as pesticides and aims to dramatically reduce the use of three neonic pesticides on corn and soy crops. </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">You can show your support by using this </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=1946b0a8ab&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">handy online form</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"> created by our colleagues at the David Suzuki Foundation.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p2"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">CELA reacts to 2015 Ontario provincial budget</span></span></strong></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">CELA welcomed confirmation of the Ontario Electricity Support Program in the </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=04c815caa8&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">2015 Ontario budget</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">. This program will provide relief to low-income families suffering from “energy poverty” where too much family income is eaten up by energy costs. Other highlights of the budget include confirmation of the province’s plan to put a price on carbon and fight climate change, major progress in funding transit infrastructure and increased support to the Ontario Legal Aid program.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p1"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">Canada misses UN deadline for carbon reduction efforts</span></span></strong><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">As part of the ongoing United Nations climate negotiations, Canada should have announced its carbon pollution reduction plan in March. Alas, it did not. As a member of the Climate Action Network, </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=67fc3fd35a&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">CELA wrote Prime Minister Stephen Harper to offer recommendations</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"> on what a Canadian plan could look like. We made a number of recommendations such as calling for carbon pricing for polluters and halting subsidies to the fossil file sector. Ideally, the plan would be ready for the upcoming Paris climate negotiations. </span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p2"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Groups urge Ontario leaders to pass proposed regulations</strong><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;">Along with a coalition of environmental organizations, CELA urged <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=d3ba2fc168&e=1d9682cf38" style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">Ontario Premier Wynne</a> and other political party leaders to pass</span></span><span style="font-size:14px;"> key environmental legislation currently before the House. The proposed legislation includes </span>Bill 9, <em>Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act</em>, 2015; Bill 52, <em>Protection of Public Participation Act</em>, 2015; Bill 66, <em>Great Lakes Protection Act</em>, 2015; and Bill 37, <em>Invasive Species Act</em>, 2015.</span></span></div>
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<div style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;"><div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">40 organizations call for stronger Great Lakes protection</span></strong></span></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">Forty tourist, health, faith-based and environmental organizations are collectively </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=71b42c293b&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">showing their support for the proposed <em>Great Lakes Protection Act</em></a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">. The groups sent a submission to the Ontario government calling for the quick passage of the proposed Act. If passed, the new law would allow government to set science-based targets to address the most severe threats to the Great Lakes and would empower local groups to develop solutions to protect their community’s water.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">Environmentalists concerned about Bruce Power's ties to CNSC</span></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) </span><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=6c9c91ce8a&e=1d9682cf38" style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">ambiguous regulatory requirements put Ontarians at risk, said environmental groups </a></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">including CELA. The organizations recently presented their concerns at hearings on Bruce Power’s request to continue operating the Bruce nuclear station. Both CELA and Greenpeace made detailed submissions at the hearings that chronicled the gaps and loopholes in CNSC safety standards. </span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p2"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">CELA files formal request to limit Bruce Power’s licence</span></span></span></strong><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">CELA and Greenpeace Canada formally asked the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to drop the five-year licence requested by Bruce Power for the Bruce A nuclear station, and </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=a098232608&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">instead grant them a licence for only two years</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">. Bruce Power has yet to provide the needed safety reviews to support extending the lives of the Bruce A reactors. Using a mechanism in the CNSC’s rules of procedures, CELA and Greenpeace filed a request for ruling which requires the CNSC to either accept or reject the groups’ request and provide reasons to support their final decision on the Bruce Power application.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p2"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">Tribunal holds public hearing on leaking landfill</span></span></span></strong><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">A three-week public hearing on the </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=4556a502e0&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">leaking Richmond Landfill Site started in April before Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">. The hearing was initiated by an appeal filed in 2012 by the Concerned Citizens Committee of Tyendinaga and Environs (CCCTE), which raised concerns about the inadequacy of environmental monitoring, contingency plans and reporting obligations regarding the landfill site. The landfill was closed in 2011, but will continue to generate contaminated liquid (called “leachate”) for decades. CELA is representing the CCCTE in this matter.</span></div>
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<div style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;"><div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong>North American groups demand global ban on toxic chemicals</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">A coalition of health, human rights, environmental justice and conservation organizations across North America are </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=b96507bd68&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;"><span class="yiv7695747175s1">calling on the governments of Mexico, Canada and the United States to ban the use of pentachlorophenol (PCP)</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">. PCP has been used throughout the world as an insecticide, fungicide and defoliant. It is currently used as a wood preservative pesticide for utility poles in the U.S. and Canada. Due to its high toxicity and persistence in the environment, PCP has already been banned in many countries. Coalitions in each of the three countries are </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=5c26346723&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;"><span class="yiv7695747175s1">sending letters</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"> in advance of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in May 2015 demanding support for a global ban on PCP, as well as two additional substances recommended for global elimination by a UN expert committee(also known as the POPs Review Committee). [Photo by Axel Drainville/Flickr/Creative Commons License]</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong>BLOG: The alternative fuels environmental three-step: One step forward, two steps back</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">On our blog, CELA counsel Joe Castrilli </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=4178d4e3fd&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;"><span class="yiv7695747175s1">explores how mandate letters from Ontario’s Premier could be a recipe for bad environmental law</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"> and even worse environmental policy. The Premier's September 2014 mandate letter is a case in point. In this particular circumstance, there is a high probability the alternative fuels mandate conflicts with another mandate set out in the letter: “safeguarding people from toxics”.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong>BLOG: A balanced federal budget over the long-term</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">Annie Bérubé, Manager of the Green Budget Coalition (GBC), wrote about the </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=17cff45290&e=1d9682cf38" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', 'lucida grande', 'lucida sans unicode', 'lucida sans', tahoma, sans-serif;color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;"><span class="yiv7695747175s1">GBC's timely advice to make the necessary investments in protecting Canada’s environment </span></a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">and securing balanced federal budgets over the long-term.</span></div>
<div class="yiv7695747175p1"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><strong>SPOTLIGHT: Acting globally by banning asbestos</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;">Despite the health affects of asbestos, Canada is still a major exporter of the substance. CELA advocates for the integrity and strength of domestic environmental law in light of regional, bilateral and multilateral agreements. We also monitor and respond to international agreements that may affect the different levels of governments in Canada to enforce environmental laws. We have an extensive collection of materials in </span><span class="yiv7695747175s1" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms, lucida grande, lucida sans unicode, lucida sans, tahoma, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cela.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=061b2906efcd710becc433e36&id=c3e0321d7c&e=1d9682cf38" style="color:#336699;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;">support of a world-wide ban on all forms of asbestos</a>.</span></div>
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