Put the "O" back in LCBO - Support Ontario Grape Farmers
Last year more than 30,000 tonnes of grape juice was imported to the province, while Ontario farmers with high quality crops were left without buyers and with local grapes rotting in their fields.
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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS & VIEWS
Home Energy Audit Experience by Sara Mathew
Read about one person's experience of a Home Energy Audit.
Read about one person's experience of a Home Energy Audit.
The Children of the Greenbelt PSA "A Promise Is A Promise"
On Monday June 1st, The Children of the Greenbelt commerical aired on television. Visit www.childrenofthegreenbelt.ca to view their video A PROMISE IS A PROMISE.
On Monday June 1st, The Children of the Greenbelt commerical aired on television. Visit www.childrenofthegreenbelt.ca to view their video A PROMISE IS A PROMISE.
Keep Terminator Seed out of Canada - actions you can take
Bill to Ban Terminator Re-introduced! Ask the Prime Minister to support Bill C-353 "Terminator Seed Ban Act"
What is Terminator? Terminator Technology genetically engineers plants to produce sterile seeds at harvest. It was developed by the multinational seed/agrochemical industry and the US government to prevent farmers from re-planting harvested seed and force farmers to buy seed each season instead. Terminator seeds have not yet been field-tested or commercialized.
In 2006, Monsanto bought the company (Delta & Pine Land) that owned Terminator. Terminator is sometimes called Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURTs) - the broad term that refers to the use of an external chemical inducer to control the expression of a plant's genetic traits.
Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko (NDP) has reintroduced his Private Members Bill (C-343) to ban the release, sale, importation and use of Terminator technology.
Actions you can take:
1. Send an instant email at http://www.cban.ca/terminatoraction
2. Organizations can endorse the call for a ban: http://www.banterminator.org/endorse
For more information: http://www.cban.ca/terminator or http://www.banterminator.org
Bill to Ban Terminator Re-introduced! Ask the Prime Minister to support Bill C-353 "Terminator Seed Ban Act"
What is Terminator? Terminator Technology genetically engineers plants to produce sterile seeds at harvest. It was developed by the multinational seed/agrochemical industry and the US government to prevent farmers from re-planting harvested seed and force farmers to buy seed each season instead. Terminator seeds have not yet been field-tested or commercialized.
In 2006, Monsanto bought the company (Delta & Pine Land) that owned Terminator. Terminator is sometimes called Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURTs) - the broad term that refers to the use of an external chemical inducer to control the expression of a plant's genetic traits.
Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko (NDP) has reintroduced his Private Members Bill (C-343) to ban the release, sale, importation and use of Terminator technology.
Actions you can take:
1. Send an instant email at http://www.cban.ca/terminatoraction
2. Organizations can endorse the call for a ban: http://www.banterminator.org/endorse
For more information: http://www.cban.ca/terminator or http://www.banterminator.org
Help Improve the Green Energy Act
Please visit www.cleanairalliance.org to what is missing from the Ontario's Green Energy Act. You can make a difference!
Please visit www.cleanairalliance.org to what is missing from the Ontario's Green Energy Act. You can make a difference!
Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman told the Ontario Power Authority to revise the 20 year plan, yet OPA continued to go ahead with RFP's for natura l gas projects...
For more information about the proposed power plant location and facts about the Holland Marsh, please visit www.megawhat.ca
But OPA delays release of new electricity plan... read the full Toronto Star Article
Sign the online petition to stop the gas-fired generator in North York Region
For more information about the proposed power plant location and facts about the Holland Marsh, please visit www.megawhat.ca
Stop the money grab
Ontario’s electricity consumers and taxpayers shelled out $2 billion in 2008... Read full article at www.cleanairalliance.org
In the News - "Green groups plan to band together"
Read full article about YREA at www.yorkregion.com
Electricity demand falls, coal exports rise
On a less positive note, Ontario’s net electricity exports doubled in 2008 more...
YREA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the