Fwd: [cleanair-l] You have a right to be heard

[Guest guest]

>

> The Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten has

> been advancing some very

> interesting logic about why you cannot have any say

> in the McGuinty

> government's plan to put the coal phase-out on

> permanent hold and increase

> the use of nuclear power. If we follow the

> minister's logic correctly (and

> this is admittedly a bit difficult given its odd

> leaps of logic), the

> government has passed a regulation exempting itself

> from the need for an

> environmental assessment of its energy plan because

> the plan was already

> exempt, but they needed to make that clear.

>

> Confused? It gets even stranger. The government

> has now posted its

> exemption regulation on the Environmental Bill of

> Rights for comment

> (http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envregistry/028017ex.htm).

> The only problem is

> that the regulation has already been passed, so it's

> kind of like commenting

> on what you wished you had received for Christmas

> (perhaps a better energy

> plan?).

>

> Please email Minister Broten at

> lbroten.mpp and tell her to

> give herself a break from the contortions. Simply

> submit the full McGuinty

> dirty energy plan to a complete provincial

> environmental assessment, just

> like Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller has

> called for. Simple,

> straightforward and meets the Premier's commitment

> for full public

> consultations before committing the province to more

> nuclear power.

>

> Please pass this message on to your friends.

>

> Thank you.

>

> Jessica Fracassi

> Communications & Membership Manager

> 402-625 Church St, Toronto M4Y 2G1

> Phone: 416-926-1907 ext. 245

> Fax: 416-926-1601

> Email: info

> Website: www.cleanairalliance.org

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