Send Emails to the Ministers of the Environment, Health, Municipal Affairs and Energy

We are into the end game. In a recent meeting with staff at the Ministry of Environment, there were  signs that our message was being listened to  but also that we needed to keep at it and broaden our approach.

We were told that the Minister is concerned about the public interest and that he reads a lot of the background himself and make up his own mind. Therefore we need to direct letter to him directly.

The other main point is that the decision has to go through cabinet and since our concerns are as much about health, municipal management and energy as they are about the environment we need to hit those ministers just as strongly.

If you can click your mouse, then you can send an emails to these Ministers.

Following are links to several pages with letters to the various Ministers on the subjects shown. Each page has two links. Ideally we would like you to send one letter from each page

1. will open a brief 'click and send' email for which you need oly add your name and address and click send. All the addressing* is done for you, although you can edit it if you like. 
2. will open a pre-addressed* but blank email. Below this is a number of points that can be copied and pasted into your letter. Pick the ones that you like, edit them if you want, and your name and address and click send.

NOTE: If you are using Microsoft Outlook, You may get an error saying that email addresses need to be separated by semi-colons. This is a default on Outlook which you can change. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820868.

1. Letters to the Environment Minister re Air Quality
2. Letters to the Minister of Health (Deb Matthews) on Air Quality and health implications
3. Letters to the Minister of Health on Nanoparticles and the Precautionary Principle
4. Letters to the Minister of the Environment on Nanoparticles and the Precautionary Principle
5. Letters to the Minister of the Environment on Site selection and the already polluted airshed at the Courtice site
6. Letters to the Minister of Health on the already polluted airshed at the Courtice site
7. Letters to the Minister of Environment on Inadequate Monitoring and Baseline Studies
8. Letters to the Minister of Health on Inadequate Monitoring and Baseline Studies
9. Letters to the Minister of Environment on 'EFW is Greenwashing'
10. Letters to the Minister of Energy (Brad Duguid) on 'EFW is Greenwashing'
11. Letters to the Minister of Environment on 'EFW is Dirty Energy'
12. Letters to the Minister of Energy on 'EFW is Dirty Energy'
13. Letters to the Minister of Environment on 'Lack of Proper Consultation'
14. Letters to the Minister of Municipal Affairs (Jim Bradley) on 'Lack of Proper Consultation'
    
15. Letters to the Minister of Environment on Effect of Incineration of Recycling and EPR
    
16. Letters to the Minister of Environment on Need, Cost, and long term fiscal management
17. Letters to the Minister of Municipal Affairs on Need, Cost, and long term fiscal management
18. Letters to the Minister of Municipal Affairs on Municipal Governance issues

*All are addressed to the listed Minister, the respective opposition critics and to members of Durham Regional Council (via the clerk). For the longer letters copies will go to local MPPs John O'Toole, Jerry Ouellette, & Joe Dickson and Ontario Green Leader Mike Schreiner . They are blindcopied back to DurhamCLEAR in order that we can monitor what is being sent.

Click one or all of the links. Make sure you add your name and address to the bottom of each. Feel free to add additional comments if you like.

We thank you in advance, for your participation. Help us keep the garbage out of our AIR, our taxes lower, and our politicians accountable.

Best Regards,

DurhamCLEAR
Durham Citizens Lobby for Environmental Awareness and Responsibility.

NOTE:   We are aware that some people are have difficulty getting the 'click and send' letters to work properly. This appears to be related to the length of the letter and the particular email setup you are using. If you experience this problem, please compose your letters by copy and paste.