Ontario May Sue Over Smog: McGuinty--Toronto Star

[Gloria]

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5//The Toronto Star, Canada Jun. 16, 2005. 05:49 PM

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ONTARIO MAY SUE OVER SMOG: McGUINTY

Premier warns court action possible to cut U.S. smog coming into Ontario



From Canadian Press


The Ontario government will try to talk the United States out of burning coal to generate power but is prepared to go to court over the issue, Premier Dalton McGuinty said today as the province released a study showing more than half of the province’s smog comes from south of the border.



McGuinty said he plans to warn American political leaders who attend the province’s Shared Air Summit on Monday that Ontario will consider going to court if necessary to try and prevent the U.S from opening new coal-fired power plants.



“That’s something that we’re going to talk about at the shared air conference,” he said of the prospect of legal action.



“What I’m hoping to do with our first Shared Air Summit is to invite American leadership to begin to recognize that we have a shared responsibility when it comes to our shared air.”



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Deputy NDP leader Marilyn Churley called the government’s strategy “laughable” and urged McGuinty to take a more aggressive approach.



“They’re just going to do it by sitting down and (having) conversations,” she said. “That’s laughable. That is just a P.R. exercise. They should take the U.S. to court.”



Doing so could involve joining one of two lawsuits that are already in progress challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s position on coal, a government source said.



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[getmeouttahere]

1. I like that NDP leader's moxy!

Coal is so 19th century!!!

[Lisa]

2. as an Ontarian, I think they should team up with the New England states

Aren't NY, Connecticut, etc. already taking legal action against the White House?

The other thing is -- Ontario Hydro (or whatever it's called now) needs to do a lot more with alternative power generation, and conservation. Some of that coal is being used to generate power that's sold to Ontario, so the sooner the province weans itself from dirty power, the better.

[getmeouttahere]

3. See, at least Canadians can see...

that their are still things they can do themselves to make our air cleaner...BushCO would never submit themselves to that kind of self-examination