| Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA): Ongoing Updates and VIDEOS |
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See also MIRANET articles: C4CA website: www.C4CA.org NEWSLETTER: Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Newsletter #4 (May 2010). PRINT AD 2: Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA): Full-page print ad in Toronto Star (March 2, 2010): Connecticut had the Foresight Not to put a Gas Fired Power Plant in a Community. UNLIKE ONTARIO. VIDEO 2: Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), YouTube video (released Dec. 17, 2009): Stop the Oakville Power Plant. Features statements by Oakville Mayor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and Mississauga Mayor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it along with This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , a Mississauga resident who has been a longtime citizen advocate on health concerns in the Clarkson-Oakville Airshed. Background: Click here for Dr. Upper's critique of the Jacques Whitford health report commissioned by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA).
PLUME MODELING: Preliminary modeling being done on the path of the emissions plume from the proposed Oakville Generating Station, using wind readings from four surrounding airports, shows emissions travelling directly over Southwest Mississauga within our unique lakeside microclimate. C4CA has released this initial aerial depiction (click). RALLY: An Outdoor Rally took place at Queen's Park on March 2, 2010 to demonstrate against the proposed 900MW gas-fired power plant to be sited in the stressed Clarkson-Oakville Airshed. Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA) organized the Rally. Click here for the MIRANET article which includes a summary of all media coverage and a photo/quote montage. Following the government's decision, MIRANET reps attended the community strategy session in Oakville on Oct. 6, 2009 in order to discuss next steps in this process. Oakville residents' associations then initiated a broadly based alliance called Citizens For Clean Air (C4CA), which is a coalition of volunteer citizens from Oakville and Mississauga. The C4CA President is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it in Oakville. MIRANET maintains contact with C4CA and publishes C4CA events and documents on our website which are of interest to our member RAs and Mississauga residents living in the Clarkson-Oakville Airshed community. MIRANET does not vet any statements or publications issued by C4CA. NOTE: Click to view the MIRANET Presentation to C4CA: December 9, 2009 at a public meeting held in Oakville regarding the power plant issue. Approximately 400 people attended. The presentation includes the "Top 10 Myths" about the supposed need to locate a natural gas-fired power plant in the densely populated and already stressed Clarkson-Oakville Airshed, and summarizes MIRANET's goals in opposing the plant. Click to view the C4CA FLYER National Post opinion column, by Doug MacKenzie, president of C4CA (May 11, 2010): Gas power plant needs buffer zone. Excerpt: "While cleaner than the coal they replace, gas-fired plants burn fossil fuels and emit thousands of tons of greenhouse gas pollution every day they operate. Further, natural gas power plants are not without risk, as the explosion at one such facility in Middletown, Conn., sadly illustrated two months ago. That accident killed six workers and injured 26, blowing out windows in homes and a hospital three kilometres away. ... Oakville's MPP, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , has proposed a private member's bill [Bill 8] that would require a 1,500-metre buffer zone between natural gas power plants and land zoned for homes, schools or hospitals". Click here for the MIRANET article and comments about Bill 8. Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), News Release (April 22, 2010): C4CA Calls for All-Party Support for Power Plant Buffer Zones. Excerpt: "Citizens for Clean Air today called on all Ontario Members of Provincial Parliament to vote in favour of Bill 8, which would prohibit the construction of a natural gas power plant within 1,500 metres of land zoned residential or for a school, day nursery or health care facility." Click here for the MIRANET article and comments about Bill 8. Toronto Star opinion column, by Doug MacKenzie, president of C4CA (April 5, 2010): Why is Oakville's new power plant so close to residents? Excerpt: "Beyond fears in the community about safety, Mississauga and Oakville residents raise concerns about the health impact emissions will have on those living in an airshed that has already been deemed excessively polluted by federal and provincial environment studies. ... And this gas plant, while cleaner than coal, is still a fossil fuel burning plant. It will emit several thousand tonnes of sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and 2.5-micron particulate matter every year. ... As we race to embrace green energy, everyone agrees that phasing out coal is good for our health and our planet. The problem is that the Ontario Power Authority, the agency responsible for ensuring future power needs are met, does not count health or safety among its priorities." MIRANET comment: The logical solution is to convert the Nanticoke plant. Click for the MIRANET article about the Nanticoke option. Hamilton Spectator opinion column, by Doug MacKenzie, president of C4CA (March 20, 2010): Gas generation, communities shouldn't mix. Excerpt: "Why put a power plant that will emit sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and dangerous particulate matter 2.5 microns in diameter, as well as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, into an airshed that both federal and provincial environment studies have determined is already overly polluted and 'stressed'?" North Oakville Today article (Feb. 18, 2010): The fight moves north. Excerpt: "The fight against the proposed gas-fired power plant in South-east Oakville is moving North as Councillor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it asks residents to join the battle. 'We're trying to build some awareness of the whole power plant issue in North Oakville,' said Knoll. ... [who] along with the activist group Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), believes that what happens in South-east Oakville will affect North Oakville." Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), News Release (Feb. 10, 2010): C4CA Calls for Moratorium on Proposed Oakville 945-Megawatt Gas-Fired Power Plant. Excerpt: "A public meeting regarding the project will take place at the Oakville Conference and Banquet Centre at 2515 Wyecroft Road this evening. Representatives of C4CA and associated members of the community will attend the meeting beginning at 7 p.m." Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Letter to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , President and CEO of TransCanada Corporation (Feb. 9, 2010): Proposed Oakville Gas-Powered Electricity Generating Station. Excerpt: "We trust that TransCanada will honour its commitments, including to the local communities, and engage in a proper environmental assessment with full public consultation. By copy of this letter to the Premier, the Minister of Environment, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, and the OPA, we hope that government of Ontario will intervene and put a stop to this unacceptable process, which otherwise would result in a very negative legacy for many decades to come." Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Letter to Environment Minister John Gerretsen (Dec. 15, 2009): "Re: TransCanada Energy Ltd.'s Proposed Electricity Generating Plant at Ford of Canada's Oakville Site". Excerpt: "We respectfully request that you immediately order the proposed plant to undergo an Individual Environmental Assessment to determine the plant's impact on the environment and the health and safety of Mississauga and Oakville residents." PRINT AD 1: Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA): Full-page print ad in recent media (Dec. 11-12, 2009): A LITTLE PM2.5 NEVER HURT ANYBODY. Oakville Beaver article (Dec. 11, 2009): "C4CA turns up the heat on power plant". Excerpt: "It just doesn’t make sense. This was the new campaign slogan unveiled by Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Wednesday night, as they prepared to step up their fight against a 900-megawatt gas-fired power plant proposed for the Ford-owned lands of 1500 Royal Windsor Dr." Canada News Wire (CNW Group), News Release (Dec. 10, 2009): Oakville group urges all Ontarians to question proposed placement of a private natural gas power plant. Excerpt: "Among the checkered processes highlighted by C4CA is the questionable mandate from the Ontario Power Authority to build at the Ford plant; followed by an owner/operator self-assessment process that allows such a massive power plant to go ahead based only on an operator's own environmental review. This is in contrast to an individual environmental assessment, which would involve proper direction and decision-making by the Ministry of the Environment." PUBLIC MEETING: Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Notice: Oakville Power Plant Information Night. Public Meeting in Oakville on December 9, 2009. Approximately 400 people attended. Excerpt: "We invite you to attend this Information Night to meet the C4CA Steering Committee and its Sub-Committees and learn more about the power plant, plans to show opposition to this plant, and most importantly how you can help as a concerned citizen." Click here for the MIRANET presentation to C4CA. Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Open Letter to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and TransCanada, 1-page ad in the Oakville Beaver (Nov. 27, 2009): "The Current Process Makes no Sense. We Need an Individual Environmental Assessment. It's Time to do the Right Thing". Excerpt: "We believe that this is a reasonable request given the dramatic and long lasting impact the development of this plant would have on Oakville, Mississauga, and the citizens of Ontario." Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Letter to Environment Minister John Gerretsen (Nov. 24, 2009): "Re: TransCanada Energy Ltd.'s Proposed 900MW Natural Gas-Fired Electricity Generating Plant at Ford of Canada's Oakville Site". Excerpt: "We respectfully request that you require an Individual EA be completed for TransCanada's Proposed 900MW Plant, including for the reasons described above." 16 pages. Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), Notice (Nov. 21, 2009): "POWER PLANT RALLY: TRANSCANADA ENERGY WILL BE IN TOWN, Tuesday Nov 24th". Excerpt: "This is an important opportunity for you to let TransCanada and the Ontario Government know how you feel about their power plant proposal and process. The proposal has not received critical permits and approvals. It is not too late for you to make a big difference, and to show TransCanada and the Ontario Government what you think of their plans." Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), 2-page ad in Oakville Beaver (Nov. 13, 2009): "An Open Letter ... Re: Proposed Oakville Gas-Fired Power Plant". Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), News Release (Nov. 13, 2009): "Liberal MPP’s Proposed Law Separating Power Plants and Homes is Endorsed". November 13, 2009: C4CA has filed Freedom of Information requests with the following departments, concerning the SWGTA power plant decision-making process. Click here to view the letters sent to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MEI), Environment Canada and the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). VIDEO 1: Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), YouTube video (released Oct. 2009): Oakville Power Plant 900MW. Shows the similar-sized 840 megawatt Goreway Power Plant operating in Brampton, Ontario.
Powerpoint presentation: Mississauga and Oakville joint citizen statement, Sept. 30, 2009: TransCanada's presentation at their 2nd Open House, June 22, 2009: TransCanada's Proposed Oakville Generating Station (OGS). 34 slides. Includes detailed aerial photographs, diagrams, environmental models and depictions of the ground-level views of the plant. How close will the TransCanada power plant be to your home? This Power Plant will be: • One of the largest natural gas power plants in Canada Citizens for Clean Air will develop a focused plan and response for the pending Environmental Assessment (EA) review pertaining to the plant. Citizens For Clean Air will be building on all the work that the CMGRA, MIRANET and others have been doing over the past year to oppose any such facility being located within the stressed Clarkson-Oakville Airshed Study area. The East Oakville Residents' Associations collaborating in C4CA include: Chartwell-Maple Grove Residents Association (CMGRA) |