<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15043">Hi folks</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18546">Let me start with the BIG news: </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135"><b><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11762"></font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11773"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18545">Standing Rock Victory in the Courts! </font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18544">A US Federal Judge ruled the approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline approval was <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_38371">illegal.</span> Orders were given for the completion of Environmental Assessments. Details here: </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15306"><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/judge-orders-review-of-dakota-access-pipeline-in-victory?utm_term=.pcJz4qBq1g#.yoa60gZgom" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10226" class="">https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/judge-orders-review-of-dakota-access-pipeline-in-victory?utm_term=.pcJz4qBq1g#.yoa60gZgom</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20682"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20681"></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18543">And now the rest of the news:</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font color="#cd232c" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24734"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24733">Local News </b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><b><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24736"></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_32037">World Environment Day with Blue Dot</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr">Waterloo Regional Blue Dot celebrated World Environment Day featuring various guest speakers. Amoung them was GREN's Susan Bryant and there is a lovely photo of Kitchener Councillor Yvonne Fernandes with Blue Dot member Tracy Rayner. Videos and photos of the day can be viewed on the facebook page at <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24513"> <span style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(205, 35, 44); font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24514"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/waterloobluedot/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24515">https://www.facebook.com/waterloobluedot/</a></span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19309"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20221">Highlights from Waterstock in Erin Ontario</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20979">The event was well attended and featured displays from many advocacy groups. Here are some issues I learned about at this event: </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: medium;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24844">-New Numbers from Food and Water First regarding the alarming loss of farmlands in Ontario. See photos of their display which provides the current statistics</span><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19106"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19222" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">-A proposed quarry expansion by CBM is proposed for Hillsburgh Ontario over 123 acres of farmland, 90 feet below existing ground level & 5 ft above water table. Folks are encouraged to send emails to HillsofErin@gmail.com to oppose the rezoning. The Hills of Erin Residents' Group has formed to oppose the project. (Search for them on Facebook) </font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_21017">-<span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19992">Concerned Residents Coalition (CRC) working to stop Hidden Quarry, a 30m below water table quarry pit near Rockwood. Groups website and details of the project are online here: <a href="http://sg.crcrockwood.org/" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20118">http://sg.crcrockwood.org/</a></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_32509"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_38289">Water is Life at UW: Quick Summery</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_32077"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_32254">Guest speaker Dr. Shiv Chopra helped to stop the use of bovine growth hormone in beef in Canada but he warns that milk products from US are still coming into Canada in powdered forms. The risks of free trade is the erosion of our own food security. We need to stop bottled water, put an end oil and fracking and say no to these free trade deals that puts food and water security at risk. </font></span><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36016"><font color="#14171a" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_32945"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_32944">Chief Leslee White_eye of Chippewas of the Thames states </span></font><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33045">Elders are gathering on water source protection. </span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33216"> We need Rights for Water not just to Water. </span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33217">No longer should water be cheap.</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33218"> Let's price them out of the industry. </span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36745"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36015"><font color="#14171a" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33475"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33474">Maude Barlow states </span></font><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33346">1. Human Rights to water has to be a goal. 2. It is a public trust, not to be commodified. 3. Water has rights.</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_33546">We need Navigables Water Act, Canadian Fisheries Act and Canadian Enviornmental Assessments back.</span></font><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36093"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36180"> </font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36262"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36408"> 99.9% of our water supplies are at risk now that deregulation happened under Harper. We need a new water ethic. </font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36411"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36531"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36530">The head of Nestle is the water adviser for the World Bank. </font></font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36437"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36528">Water is a tradable good under GATT. Current trade agreements are a direct threat to water security. We </font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_36608">lack of watet policy as the world approaches. The Ogallala aquifer will be gone in our lifetime.</span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_37892"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_37370">Dr. Vandana Shiva helped shut 4 Coca-Cola plants down using science and peaceful protests for 2 years. On average the plants use</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_37371"> 1.5 to 5 million litres of water each day.</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_37372"> She also protected the Forests for soil and water conservation relaying the fact that forests contributes to both water and air. The</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_37373"> right kind of farming preserves water. She said "</span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_37801">Humas is soil. It is the root of the word Human and I think humility and humidity." </span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20992">. </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19814" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24793"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24794"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24795"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24911">June 22: Standing Rock to Six Nations Land defence across Turtle Island at University of Guelph.</b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24796"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24797"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24798">Speakers will include:</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24799"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24800">Vanessa Gray, Aamjiwnaang </span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24801"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24802">Myeengun Henry, Chippewa of the Thames</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24803"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24804">Todd Williams, Six Nations</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24805"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24806">Kayla Sutherland</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24807"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24808">This event is FREE for everyone. Soup and bread will be provided. </span><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24809">This event is apart of the Summer Institute Guelph series, hosted by OPIRG-Guelph and Guelph Anti-Pipeline.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24810"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24811"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24812"><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);">Info here</span>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1118223071656352/?ti=cl" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24813">https://www.facebook.com/events/1118223071656352/?ti=cl</a></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_19554"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13424"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18985" color="#cd232c">Provincial News</font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font color="#14171a" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11326"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11368"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11763">St. Lawrence River Emergency Dam Release</b></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11653" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11561">International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board agreed to increase the flow rate over the Moses-Saunders Power Dam near Cornwall, Ont. – from 10,200 to 10,400 cubic metres a second. That’s the equivalent of four Olympic-sized swimming pools draining into the river every second. This is an</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11604"> emergency measure that began yesterday. More water from Lake Ontario will flow into the St. Lawrence River than ever before to reduce the high water levels. </span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15041"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11382"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11381">The captain of a 225-metre vessel carrying 29,000 tonnes of iron ore to Hamilton Ontario spoke of the strong currents of the St. Lawrence saying “It almost turned us around.” Due to the recent floods, the water levels in the river rose </font></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11454"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11472">75.88 metres above sea level on May 29. This is the same river where oil vessels ship Line 9's tar sands products to the East Coast. </font></span><font color="#14171a"><br></font></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14108"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14107" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14117">Ontario Carbon Tax Success! </b></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14081" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">The Second Carbon Tax Auction in in Ontario has just raised 504 Million! <a href="http://environmentaldefence.ca/2017/06/13/second-success-ontarios-cap-trade-makes-grade/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14116">http://environmentaldefence.ca/2017/06/13/second-success-ontarios-cap-trade-makes-grade/</a></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31032">Enbridge Line 5 has HUGE issues</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_30802">Enbridge's own documents shows years of noncompliance for Line 5's pipeline structural support spacing. </span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font color="#14171a" face="Arial, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_30902"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_30903"><a href="http://www.petoskeynews.com/featured-pnr/pnr_topgallery/enbridge-document-shows-years-of-noncompliance-for-pipeline-supports/article_3c8da526-464f-11e7-915b-4f402df502a2.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_30904" class="">http://www.petoskeynews.com/featured-pnr/pnr_topgallery/enbridge-document-shows-years-of-noncompliance-for-pipeline-supports/article_3c8da526-464f-11e7-915b-4f402df502a2.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share</a></span></font><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_30914"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_30986"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11733"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11732" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11757">Ontario Helps First Nations & Environment</b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11682"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15033" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11683"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11684">Here is a list of 25 different First Nation communities that qualify for Ontario grants to end diesel dependency. All they have to do is apply to get the funds. (I'm working with a group to help centralize this kind of data and hopefully we can create support mechanisms to help support their applications) <a href="https://www.ontario.ca/page/power-grid-connections-first-nations" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11685">https://www.ontario.ca/page/power-grid-connections-first-nations</a></font></span><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11686"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11687"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11688"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11689"></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11690"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15034" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11691">Ontario is also offering economic development funds to First Nation communities which can go a long way to delivering clean water, better waste management programs and safer infrastructure </span><font color="#14171a" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11692"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11693"><a href="https://www.ontario.ca/page/funding-indigenous-economic-development" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_11694">https://www.ontario.ca/page/funding-indigenous-economic-development</a></span></font></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13441"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_20765" color="#cd232c">Federal News</font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15377"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15376">Tar Sands Decline</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15309"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15354">Energy companies wrote down nearly 8 billion barrels of Canadian oil sands reserves last year. <a href="http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/energy-companies-wrote-down-nearly-8-billion-barrels-of-canadian-oilsands-reserves-last-year" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15420" class="">http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/energy-companies-wrote-down-nearly-8-billion-barrels-of-canadian-oilsands-reserves-last-year</a></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27654"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27724">New Report shows flaws of Kinder Morgan's Oil Pipeline</b></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27452"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27583">Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report reveals the case for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline is built on faulty assumptions, including tidewater & price fiction including </font></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27892"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_28170">overestimated oil supply by 43 per cent in 2038 and </font></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27980"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_28060">13 per cent surplus of export pipeline capacity now that Line 3 and Keystone XL are approved. (Kinder Morgan assumed they wouldn't be) </font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27718"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27717"><a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/case-kinder-morgan%E2%80%99s-trans-mountain-pipeline-built-faulty-assumptions#sthash.CgcX8GS9.fWZM6Mwh.dpuf" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27481">https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/case-kinder-morgan%E2%80%99s-trans-mountain-pipeline-built-faulty-assumptions#sthash.CgcX8GS9.fWZM6Mwh.dpuf</a></font></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27493"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13296"></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13453" size="3"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13467">CAPP removed Proposed Pipeline Info</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15035" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13051"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13093"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13158">The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has dropped proposed pipelines from their demand vs. Pipeline Capacity figures! This was mentioned by Greenpeace's Keith Stewart on Twitter. He shows the two charts here: <a href="https://twitter.com/climatekeith/status/874634272803573760" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13163">https://twitter.com/climatekeith/status/874634272803573760</a></font></span></span><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13170"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13170"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14112"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15259">TSX, Fossil Fuels and Pension Risks</font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13170" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15149">Chief Economist Jeff Rubin wrote a report: The Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels in Canada.. At a recent CIGI forum he warns 20% of the TSX is bound to fossil fuels. Former Bank of Canada rep Mark Carney advised that this figure should have only been 5% exposure to secure a more resilient system. We are fiscally vulnerable in Canada unless we can divest Pension Funds and Investments from that 20% risk. The solution would be to get banks to offer tar sands free portfolios. Jeff Rubin's report is here: : </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15185"><a href="https://www.cigionline.org/publications/case-divesting-fossil-fuels-canada" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13720">https://www.cigionline.org/publications/case-divesting-fossil-fuels-canada</a><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13452"></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14440"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15258">Enormous Ice Bridge Melted for the Last Time</font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15062"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14293">An Ice Bridge stretching across 187 kilometres of frozen Mackenzie Delta and Arctic Ocean in the Northwest Territories, linking Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk has melted and will not come back. It was a vital link for Northern Communities, Mining operations, the shipment of goods, fuel and much needed infrastructure. </span><a href="https://www.desmog.ca/2017/05/17/famous-canadian-ice-road-melts-last-time" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14168" class="">https://www.desmog.ca/2017/05/17/famous-canadian-ice-road-melts-last-time</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25730"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23526"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23802">Auditor Speaks on Sask. Pipelines</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23457"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23494">Saskatchewan government lacks written policies & procedures to evaluate province's existing pipeline systems. They must do more says Auditor. </font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23645"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23644"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-pipelines-auditor-1.4148024" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23674" class="">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-pipelines-auditor-1.4148024</a></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13229" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14261" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15063"><font color="#14171a" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14514"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14513"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18355">Here is the first national assessment<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_17952"> of Canada’s freshwater ecosystems in decades</span></b><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18285"> </span></span></font></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14261" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18307"><font color="#14171a" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18309"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18308">World Wildlife Fund reports </span></font><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14512">93 out of 167 sub-watersheds have experienced habitat loss. Freshwater Is at Risk. Handy video with maps to show the distribution of the issues doing the damages is online here: <a href="http://blog.wwf.ca/blog/2017/06/12/canadas-freshwater-risk-heres/?hootPostID=ea73c19ed6de48403b7412ce1c9f9df4" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14537" class="" style="background-color: rgb(245, 248, 250);">http://blog.wwf.ca/blog/2017/06/12/canadas-freshwater-risk-heres/?hootPostID=ea73c19ed6de48403b7412ce1c9f9df4</a></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14261" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18387">Full PDF report is here; <a href="http://assets.wwf.ca/downloads/WWF_Watershed_Reports_Summit_FINAL_web.pdf?_ga=2.247247181.891394252.1497266572-984777005.1497266572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_18489">http://assets.wwf.ca/downloads/WWF_Watershed_Reports_Summit_FINAL_web.pdf?_ga=2.247247181.891394252.1497266572-984777005.149726657</a></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14261" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: medium;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22486"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22498"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22485"></b></span></div><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22497">Canada has a new Marine Protected Area off Cape Breton </b><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22546">The 4,364-square-kilometre area east of Scaterie Island, N.S., will now be off limits to oil and gas activities and bottom-trawling. It's roughly three-quarters the size of Prince Edward Island.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22550"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/st-anns-bank-protected-area-cape-breton-1.4151602" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_26060">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/st-anns-bank-protected-area-cape-breton-1.4151602</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_22559"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14559"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15096" color="#cd232c"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15104">International</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" color="#cd232c"><b><br></b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25780"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25779">EU commissioned Pesticide Report & BRAIN DAMAGE</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25988"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25989">Pesticides can cause brain damage and organic food is the future, EU report says. </font></span><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25990"><span style="color: rgb(40, 30, 30);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25991"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25992">California data shows links to attention deficit issues and </font></span></font><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25993"><span style="color: rgb(40, 30, 30);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25994">poorer intellectual development. Another </span></font><span style="letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25995"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25996"> report states a</font></span><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25997"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25998"><span style="color: rgb(40, 30, 30);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25999">n estimated 13 million IQ points a year are lost as a result </span></font><span style="color: rgb(40, 30, 30);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_26000"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_26001">of pesticides, which represents a loss of approximately €125bn (£109bn) across the European Union. </font></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25295"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25294">News Article here; <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/environment-report-eu-pesticide-link-brain-damage-lower-iq-billions-of-pounds-lost-organic-food-a7771056.html" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25181">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/environment-report-eu-pesticide-link-brain-damage-lower-iq-billions-of-pounds-lost-organic-food-a7771056.html</a></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25187" dir="ltr">Here is the link to the full report <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/581922/EPRS_STU(2016)581922_EN.pdf" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_27356">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/581922/EPRS_STU(2016)581922_EN.pdf</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15088"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15129">US Energy Report: Renewable Milestones Made! </b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15222" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15195"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15196">Renewable Energy Outproduces Nuclear In the US with Wind and Solar providing over 10% of energy needed. </span></font><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15197">Non-Hydro Renewables exceeded 12% </span><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15198"> <a href="http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Renewable-Energy-Outproduces-Nuclear-In-The-US.html" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15251">http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Renewable-Energy-Outproduces-Nuclear-In-The-US.html</a></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29160"><b><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29159"></b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_28766"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_38588">Faith Groups Vs. Fossil Fuels</b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(99, 99, 99); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.68px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_28906">The day of ExxonMobil’s AGM, a coalition of faith and non-faith groups are staging events to call for the Church of England to divest from the company. Faith based divestment are pulling millions away from fossil fuels but want more action. </span><a href="http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/32697" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_28765" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/32697</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><b><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31743"></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31749">Exxon Shareholders have spoken!</b> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr">On a related matter, 62% of ExxonMobile's shareholders voted for Exxon to disclose their corporate risks regarding climate change. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052017/exxon-shareholder-climate-change-disclosure-resolution-approved" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31544">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052017/exxon-shareholder-climate-change-disclosure-resolution-approved</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31658"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_14621" dir="ltr"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.17px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23227"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23265"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23378">Families can easily build solar biodigesters themselves</b></font></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23901">T.H. Culhane, founder of the international nonprofit Solar C.³I.T.I.E.S., turns garbage into biofuel & compost using low tech affordable means as featured in National Geographic here: <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/sponsor-content-coors-light/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23149">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/sponsor-content-coors-light/</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23945"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24024"><font size="3"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24018"></font></b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23946"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_25054"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23879"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24023">India Commits to Sell Only Electric Cars by 2030 </b></span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23938"><font color="#14171a" face="Arial, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23933"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23934"><a href="https://futurism.com/an-end-to-fossil-fuels-india-commits-to-sell-only-electric-cars-by-2030/" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23937"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24058"><a href="https://futurism.com/an-end-to-fossil-fuels-india-commits-to-sell-only-electric-cars-by-2030/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29420">https://futurism.com/an-end-to-fossil-fuels-india-commits-to-sell-only-electric-cars-by-2030/</a></font></a></span></font><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23938"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23938"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29590">California Ending Fossil Fuels</b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23938">California <span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29477">Senate Bill 100, was approved with a 25-13 vote to commit to </span>100% Fossil Fuel Free California by 2045. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_23947" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/california-sb-100-renewable-energy-2429029310.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29315" class="">https://www.ecowatch.com/california-sb-100-renewable-energy-2429029310.html</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29324"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31334"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31329"></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29324"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31333">Bloomberg's new Climate Change Website</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29324">Bloomberg has just opened their new website dedicated to Climate Issues. Money and Climate Change are all linked! </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29324" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_31254">https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_29377"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_24008"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15082" color="#cd232c"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15099">Take Action! </b></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15065">Please Sign the official Parliamentary Petition e-880 to secure an Environmental Assessment for Site C. Signing requires an email confirmation</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15081"><a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-880" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10428" class="edited-link-editor">https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-880</a></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15066">Take Action to help BC Salmon stay healthy. <a href="https://www.support.ecojustice.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1943&ea.campaign.id=65485&ea.tracking.id=twitter" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_12970">https://www.support.ecojustice.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1943&ea.campaign.id=65485&ea.tracking.id=twitter</a></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10135" dir="ltr"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_15092">Protect consumers from Big Banks who misbehave (The root of many bad environmental projects ) <a href="https://act.leadnow.ca/protect-consumers/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13568" class="">https://act.leadnow.ca/protect-consumers/</a><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13578"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13637"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13107"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">Have a great day folks! </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13107"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_13107"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">Lulu :0)</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_12977"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10294"><font size="3" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497537544856_10293"><br></div></div></body></html>