ABOLITION OF COAL-FIRED PLANTS - NO NUKES!

ABOLITION OF COAL-FIRED PLANTS IN ONTARIO IMMEDIATELLY AND CANADA WIDE BY 2012

VIGIL / INFO PICKET / RALLY

TUESDAY JULY 24, 2007 - 5:30 - 6:30 pm

TORONTO - corner University and College
in front of Ontario Power Generation Building (OPG)

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance - PSEA
Contact Ivona Vujica Coordinator psea4earth@gmail.com

1. Letter to Queen's Park

2. Letter to Harper

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LETTER TO QUEEN'S PARK

We thank all people from Ontario and beyond who sent their advocacy letters.

If you have not had a chance, please write Premier Dalton McGuinty to urge him to close down Ontario Coal Plants OR take a second and email the following sample letter (below) to:

Dalton McGuinty dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

CC to

John Tory, MPP john.tory@pc.ola.org
Howard Hampton, MPP hhampton-qp@ndp.on.ca

BCC to

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance psea4earth@gmail.com

Premier Dalton McGuinty:

Your # 1 Election Promise was to close Ont.'s coal fired power plants by 2007. In fact, your exact words were, "Come hell or highwater, Ontario coal plants will close by 2007."

We are holding you to your promise.

Nanticoke is Canada's # 1 Polluter and Greenhouse Gas Emitter and N. America's largest coal plant. It's killed thousands and made even more ill. Cancer now surpasses heart disease as the # 1 killer. Please keep your promise. The health of all Ontarians demands it.

Also, we are asking you to stop the proposed giant methane plant in the Portlands that is going ahead without a full environmental assessment and is opposed by Mayor David Miller, most local politicians, the Board of Health etc.

* Greenhouse gases up 90% from Ontario coal plants from 1995-2005 (Tor Star, Feb 1/07)

* Closing down Ontario coal stacks amounts to taking all the cars and small trucks off our streets

* McGuinty government says that "the annual costs of coal-fired generation, including health and environmental costs, ... [is] significantly higher than other electricity generation options."

* The Ontario Power Authority is recommending that in 2010, Ontario Power Generation should export 93% of its coal-fired electricity to the U.S. (meaning we get all the toxins, illness and have to account for the greenhouse gasses while the US gets our power. McGuinty promised in 2003 to export zero amount of power to the US. from Ontario's coal-fired plants.

Did Premier McGuinty make his electoral promise to the Peoples of Ontario just to get him elected in 2003? He did. Every time McGuinty made the promise to phase out coal-fired plants, he said it was prudent, necessary and urgent. The Ontario coal-fired plants contain no scrubbers and should close immediately. In effect, what we have is the McGuinty government intentionally making ill and murdering prematurely Ontarians by the heavy toxins spewed by these coal-fired plants.

Sincerely,
NAME
ADDRESS OR CITY

LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER HARPER

Prime Minister, the Kyoto protocol of which Canada is a signatory and is bound to under international law is now also the law of the land in Canada as it was passed unanimously by the House of Commons and the Senate. No one is above the law prime minister Harper.

The only way Canada can keep its Kyoto obligations is by the Canada wide phase-out of coal-fired plants by 2012. It not only reduces our greenhouse gases effectively but it also protects the health and wellbeing of all Canadians young and old.

Canada's words / obligations mean something.

Sincerely,
NAME
Address or City

Prime Minister Stephen Harper pm@pm.gc.ca
Jack Layton, NDP leader Layton.J@parl.gc.ca
Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Quebecois leader Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
Dion Stephane, Liberal leader Dion.S@parl.gc.ca
Elizabeth May, Green party leader leader@greenparty.ca

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