<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv6922645165"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_2497"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_2496"><div id="yiv6922645165"><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_16841"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_16840" dir="ltr"><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3737" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hi folks</div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3737" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3737" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Lots happening. Here's the latest: </div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3737" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3737" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18291">Local/Provincial News</b></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3736" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9855"><br id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9847"></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5278"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6864">Amazing success reducing intersex fish in the Grand</font></b></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6487">At the discharge points of effluent in the Grand, up to 100% of the male Rainbow Darter fish had eggs in their testes in one of the highest incidents of endocrine disruption at the global level. Once new measures were implemented to reduce effluent and ammonia, the levels fell to just 29% in the first year. The region changed the aeration tank to reduce toxic ammonia in 2012. After 3 years the numbers dropped below upstream levels of less than 10%. The treatment plant upgrade is part of $320 million in work expected to be completed in late 2018 to 2019. Thanks to Mark Servos, the Canada Research Chair in Water Quality Protection and his team from the University of Waterloo for making this possible. Thanks as well to our Municipal and Regional agencies who had the good sense to act on this. This gives great hope to communities at the International level experiencing similar issues.</font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6486"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.therecord.com/news-story/7061621-cleaner-water-means-fewer-intersex-fish-in-grand-river/" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_4606" class="yiv6922645165">http://www.therecord.com/news-story/7061621-cleaner-water-means-fewer-intersex-fish-in-grand-river/</a><br></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_4672" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_4672" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5273"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6558">Alarming tax cuts for Wellington County Quarry Pits. </font></b></div><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6485" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Changes to how gravel pits are assessed for property taxes is removing millions from public funding. In Wellington County alone they saw a $6 million dollar loss. <br>“The bottom line is that most County pits were valued between $40,000 to $50,000 an acre and now the same pits would be valued at less than $10,000 an acre,” said County Councillor Pierre Brianceau.<br>The total assessed value of Erin’s four active pits has been cut from $97.2 million to $68.1 million. That translates to a tax loss of $559,323, including $257,615 in County taxes, $103,516 in Town taxes and $198,190 in education taxes. <br>Puslinch, with 14 pits, was hit the hardest with $2.4 million less in tax revenue.<br>The overall write-off for municipalities county-wide is $6 million, including $221,484 spent so far on legal and consultant fees to fight the change. The County itself is out $3 million.<br><font id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5021">“A one-acre residential lot and mid-sized home will now pay more tax than a 94 acre gravel pit,” said Town Councillor Jeff Duncan, referring to the presentation in the Jan. 9 County agenda, available at </font><span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5036" style="color:rgb(90, 90, 90);">wellington.ca.</span> <br></font><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5733" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.southwesternontario.ca/news-story/7061731-wellington-takes-6-million-hit-on-gravel-taxes/" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_4888" class="yiv6922645165edited-link-editor" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6555">http://www.southwesternontario.ca/news-story/7061731-wellington-takes-6-million-hit-on-gravel-taxes/</font></a></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5734" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5734" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6588"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6593">Arctic Energy Solutions from Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Energy</b></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5705" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6484"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5766">The Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Energy partnered with the WWF and found that investments in a</span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5767"> mix of renewable energy "can lead to immense carbon dioxide emissions reductions," as well as millions in operation and maintenance savings.for Arctic communities. They examined</span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5768"> Baker Lake, Sanikiluaq, Arviat, Rankin Inlet, and Iqaluit, calculating that the highest rate of potential greenhouse gas emissions reduction was 74 per cent in Baker Lake, with the highest potential cost savings being $29.7 million saved over 20 years in Iqaluit.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5705" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6483"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6056">Related news story; </span><font color="#333333" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5889"><span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5890"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wwf-renewable-energy-1.3920028" class="yiv6922645165" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5893">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wwf-renewable-energy-1.3920028</a></span></font></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6482">The report "Fueling Change in the Arctic - Phase II" is online here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://assets.wwf.ca/downloads/full_report___feasibility.pdf" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_6012">http://assets.wwf.ca/downloads/full_report___feasibility.pdf</a>: 4</font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18299"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18300"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18301">All Charges Dropped</b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18302">Aamjiwnaang's Vanessa Gray. Stone Stewart and Sarah Scanion participated in an act that shut down Line 9. They were charged with endangered life with possible life sentences. The reason for the lock down is because they believe line is not safe and that it violates Treaty Rights. .They callled Enbridge before the lock down happened. For Enbridge to prove their claims were reasonable, they would have to prove endangerment of life and admit their pipe can't handle backflow. It was a Catch 22. Enbridge dropped all charges and a peace bond was set in place for 18 months to keep the three away from Enbridge property. . </div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18303"><a href="http://blackburnnews.com/sarnia/sarnia-news/2017/01/13/charges-enbridge-pipeline-protesters-dropped/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18304">http://blackburnnews.com/sarnia/sarnia-news/2017/01/13/charges-enbridge-pipeline-protesters-dropped/</a></div></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_6205"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18248">Federal News </b></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_9039"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_9502">The passing of Arthur Manuel</b></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_5905" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_12550"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_11288">Arthur Manuel was a spokesperson for the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade and Defenders of the Land network. As former chairperson of the Interior Alliance of BC First Nations, Manuel was a leading voice of opposition to the Canadian government's agenda to "extinguish" Aboriginal and Treaty rights and assimilate Indigenous peoples into the Canadian body politic. He understood that the</span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_12460"> economy views environment and Indigenous Rights as externalizations. When the Canadian Government ignores Treaty Rights, these acts are serving as an illegal trade subsidy. He dedicated his life to working on solutions to restore Indigenous Sovereignty as a means to implement greater social equity with Canada and First Nation's people and to prioritize environmental protections. He wrote many books voicing concerns that Canada is still taking a colonial approach by setting terms without our input and working without regard for the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) To foster a true partnership it is important to recognize self determination and ratify UNDRIP and start building the future based on our shared values to close the gaps of social inequities. It is do-able. </span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_5229"></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_7561"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_7560"></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8558"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9968">Converting to LED streetlights saves money.</b></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9174">Nice savings to be found with LED streetlights. Folks who like seeing the math will enjoy this article. Here is one of the two given examples of the cost savings. </font></div><ul dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9505" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><li id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9508"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9944">250 street lights in Black Diamond Alberta is expected to save around $1,278 annually.<br></font></li><li id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9506"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9945"> <span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9322" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A municipal multiplier will be applied to the Town's bills to pay for the conversion and, once recovered, the annual savings are expected to swell to around $5,750 </span><br></font></li><li id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9504"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9946">Implimentation saves 120,000 kilowatt hours per year – the equivalent of operating 15 homes.</font></li></ul><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9947"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8177"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.westernwheel.com/article/LED-lights-to-save-money-for-communities-20170111#.WHb5abGEzIA.twitter" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8196" class="yiv6922645165"><font id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8560"></font></a><font id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8560"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.westernwheel.com/article/LED-lights-to-save-money-for-communities-20170111#.WHb5abGEzIA.twitter" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9549">http://www.westernwheel.com/article/LED-lights-to-save-money-for-communities-20170111#.WHb5abGEzIA.twitter</a></font></b></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9610" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">(Lulu Note: I've been told When it comes to LED street lights, one must make sure that the colour temperature is right. Too blue, and it creates more light pollution. Make sure 2700 or lower.</span><span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_9675" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Blue must be minimized, shielded, low brightness.) </span><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_21540"><span style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.26px;white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_21533"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_21548">Enbridge Line 3 has a new stream of oil but no buyers due to oil glut </b></span></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22179"><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22212">A</span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_21979"> company spokeswoman stated </span><span style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22048">Enbridge is always looking for more space on its pipeline system and has talked before about needing more heavy crude capacity, but could not speak to specific products or lines as that was client information and commercially sensitive, </span></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19987"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19984"><span style="letter-spacing:0.26px;white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19985"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/refiners-shun-new-canadian-crude-blend-offer-from-enbridge-line/article33561469/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+&service=mobile" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19986" class="yiv6922645165">https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/refiners-shun-new-canadian-crude-blend-offer-from-enbridge-line/article33561469/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+&service=mobile</a></span></font><br></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_25754"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_25753"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_25759">The price of WCS</b></font></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22484"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22483">Rystad reports show the break even price for Alberta oil sands sits at $69 per barrel (April 2016 values) : <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.rystadenergy.com/NewsEvents/PressReleases/global-liquids-cost-curve-an-update" class="yiv6922645165" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22622">http://www.rystadenergy.com/NewsEvents/PressReleases/global-liquids-cost-curve-an-update</a></font></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22644" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Alberta Government Dashboard values for Tar Sands aka WCS per barrel from Jan-Nov, 2016 averages $<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-line;" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22932">$31.89. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/OilPrice" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_24129" class="yiv6922645165">http://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/OilPrice</a> </span></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_22644" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18397"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18390"></b></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18388"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18387"><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18400">International News </b></span></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr"><font color="#292f33" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19664"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19665"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19666">Study re: Natural capital infrastructure for cleaner water</b> </font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19667"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19668">A recent study released by the Nature Conservancy Canada shows 4 out of 5 of the 4000 largest cities in the world could improve water quality using nature based solutions. For a cost of just $2 per person per year the benefits include food and water security, biodiversity, improved health and well being, reduced emissions and greater climate resilience and much more. </font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19669"><font color="#333333" size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19670"><span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19671">Related article by National Geographic <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/12/its-time-to-give-nature-the-credit-it-deserves/#.WHe7rn6xK9M.twitter" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19672">http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/12/its-time-to-give-nature-the-credit-it-deserves/#.WHe7rn6xK9M.twitter</a></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19673"><font color="#333333" size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19674"><span id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19675"><font id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19676">The study "A Natural Solution to Water Security" is online here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://global.nature.org/content/beyond-the-source?src=r.global.beyondthesource" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19677">https://global.nature.org/content/beyond-the-source?src=r.global.beyondthesource</a></font></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19678"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19679"><br id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19680"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19681"><font size="3" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19682">(Lulu Note: Big cities are the low hanging fruit because they have the concentrated numbers of people to keep the system affordable to implement but for areas with less populations over a larger territory of land, we could explore ideas like watershed wide tax formula.)</font></div></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19239"><b><br id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19238"></b></span></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_3735" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19173"><b id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19246">Using solar and wind instead would save New Yorkers $6.5 billion on their electricity bills over 12 years</b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19174">Mark Jacobson is the director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University.co-authored a report with Dr. Felix Cebulla of the German Aerospace Center, this alternative would save New Yorkers $6.5 billion on their electricity bills over the next 12 years. But we also found that it was $5.2 billion cheaper to replace the nuclear with both onshore wind and utility-scale solar.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19175">Related article: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170110/OPINION/161229954" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19245">http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170110/OPINION/161229954</a></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19176">The study <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stopthecuomotax.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/New_York_Energy_Analysis.pdf" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_19181">http://www.stopthecuomotax.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/New_York_Energy_Analysis.pdf</a></div></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_18012" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283622769_18242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><h2 style="color: rgb(46, 41, 37); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 19px; outline: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 10px;" id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_10225">Have a great week everybody! </h2><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_18519">Lulu :0)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484504438304_8758"><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8205" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div id="yiv6922645165yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484283890368_8255" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>