Premier Dalton McGuinty
Main Legislative Building, Room 281, Queens Park
Toronto, ON
M7A 1A1
Dear Mr. McGuinty,
I am writing to you to indicate my support of Donna Dillman’s hunger strike calling for a moratorium on uranium mining in Eastern Ontario.
This crisis represents both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is the ever increasing world energy demand while preserving ecosystem integrity, bridging the conflict between settlers and First Nations and maintaining healthy communities. The opportunity is a sane energy policy, one focused on energy efficiency, renewable forms of energy and the capacity of taxpayers to sell back to the grid. May I refer you to an article in the May 31st 2007 edition of The Economist which reported a study by Vattenfall, a Swedish power utility. The study reviewed abatement costs of energy efficiency and production measures. It found that, at a macroeconomic level, energy efficiency measures would produce savings and economic growth whereas energy production measures would not. (more…)
As Donna moves through the fourth week of her hunger strike, (started October 8th) some of us are starting to worry. What of Donna’s four children and three grandchildren? Does she not sense the tremendous loss they would feel if there is no progress toward a moratorium on uranium mining and their
mother/grandmother comes to harm?
For thirty years Donna has looked out for things that might hurt her off-spring. Saying NO to uranium mining is more of the same. The danger she sees in uranium poses a far greater risk than falling off a fence or playing with sharp knives. It is a threat to her children and grandchildren and, is an example of what threatens all children and grandchildren. I am moved to tears as I read some of the letters of admiration and gratitude that are flowing in,
thanking Donna for making her stand.
Letters supporting Donna’s call for a moratorium on uranium mining can be sent to:
Premier Dalton McGuinty
Main Legislative Building
Room 281, Queens Park
Toronto, ON, Canada
M7A 1A1
The Green Party of Canada released today its Vision Green. The policy document lays out the plan for the kind of Canada we want in 2020 and how we get to that point. It is a breath of fresh air and provides visionary leadership, not for the next four year, but for the next forty years. Here are some of the solutions addressing the various issues it covers: (more…)
An article on Live Journal uses a house as a metaphor to describe the situation from the point of view of First Nation people. A reasonably good thread follows. Note that the strange family from out of town is our ancestors, the European colonialists.
‘They ask: “Why are you so angry?”
You realize, with a sense of horror, that they really have no idea.’