Bridging the Gulf highlights the connection between the choices made by commuters in Ontario, and the negative impacts of oil extraction in North America in light of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and ongoing ecological impacts from oil sands development. It focuses exclusively on personal transportation — how Ontarians get around every day — and presents five key actions to reduce oil use based on policy changes that are already underway in the province.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda, Simon Dyer

Topic Area: Ontario Smart Growth

Cherise Burda, Ontario Policy Director for the Pembina Institute, responded to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario's (ECO) annual greenhouse gas progress report. The Pembina Institute applauds the report and supports its five main recommendations.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Ontario Smart Growth

Canada's six largest urban areas must do more to promote green urban design and low-carbon transportation choices.

Media Contact: Alison Bailie

Topic Area: Ontario Smart Growth

Making key improvements to personal transportation policies would result in greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to taking one million vehicles off the road and also reduce driving time for commuters, according to a new report by the Pembina Institute.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Ontario Smart Growth

The Samsung consortium's investment in renewable energy production in Ontario and promise to support local manufacturing demonstrates how the province's commitment to clean energy can attract clean energy companies and create new job opportunities.

Media Contact: Marlo Raynolds

Topic Area: Ontario Electricity, Renewable is Doable Campaign

Dans une déclaration commune publiée aujourd’hui, un groupe unique d'industries et d'organismes environnementaux a annoncé l’élaboration des éléments clés pour un système canadien efficace de plafonds et d'échange de crédits pour les émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

Media Contact: Matthew Bramley

Topic Area: Ontario Electricity

Cherise Burda, Ontario Policy Director for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Ontario government's decision today to suspend the procurement of two new nuclear plants at Darlington:

"Today's delay which was made on the basis of pricing, should not be resolved through more federal subsidies"...

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Ontario Electricity, Renewable is Doable Campaign

Conditions have changed and the McGuinty government should support its own Green Energy Act by deciding against buying new nuclear reactors this summer, say thirteen prominent environmental organizations in an open letter to the Premier.  

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Ontario Electricity, Renewable is Doable Campaign

The federal nuclear regulator should not allow the Pickering B nuclear station to be rebuilt because the agency's badly flawed review does not assess the significant hazards the plant poses to the environment and the public, environmental groups told the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission today at its public hearing in Ajax.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Ontario Electricity, Renewable is Doable Campaign

Energy Minister George Smitherman's goal of increasing the amount of green energy in the province's electricity plan can only be met by replacing ageing nuclear stations with new green sources says a new report released by a coalition of environmental groups today.

Media Contact: Cherise Burda

Topic Area: Ontario Electricity, Ontario Nuclear, Renewable is Doable Campaign

Investment analysts say the cost of building Dalton McGuinty's nuclear reactors has more than doubled in the last three years but the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) refuses to re-evaluate its original estimates amidst a global financial crisis.

Media Contact: Greenpeace

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign