Dear Premier Wynne, I am…

Dear Premier Wynne,

I am writing to you as an Ontario Citizen who cares deeply for her home. I am grateful everyday to be surrounded by the beatiful lakes, forests, and wildlife of Ontario, and I am especially grateful for the health of my family and friends. Growing up across the water from the Pickering Power Plant, I would look throught the beautiful tress to see smoke barreling out of the plant. I am told that there was a time when you could fish off the dock in my backyard. And I am told that children who lived in other cities didn't have emergency school protocols involving iodine pills "just incase". I am told that there were many more birds, chipmunks, foxes, rabbits, snakes, and spiders than I have seen in my years at that home. But the thing I've been told that I remember most of all was the day my parents told me we had to move becuase my Mother's doctor told her that living so close to the plant was making her health issues worsen.

So today I write to you to ask you to make the choice to switch to 100% rebewable energy. I ask this of you so that my children will have a future in which they look through the trees in their backyard and see beautiful Windmills, wildlife, and birds in the sky. I am asking you to switch to 100% renewable energy in Ontario so my children can learn to fish. And I am asking you to switch to a 100% renewable future so that my children will get to meet their Grandmother.

We know the facts. We know the impact. It is time to stop talking about it and make the switch to 100% renewable energy in Ontario. For our forests, lakes, families, and friends. It is time to make the switch.

Sincerely,

Meghan Pistchik

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