"AIR POLUUTION DEATH TOLL CLAIMS JUST BLOWING SMOKE"

The above title is the title in today's K-W Record Opinion piece by Peter Shawn Taylor, Waterloo resident and editer-at-large for Maclean's magazine. On occasion I've had difficulty finding opinion pieces on line in order to provide a link to them. As I'm a little bit stumped on this opinion I'm very glad it's on-line and I've been able to link to it. This leaves it up to you the reader to come to your own conclusions.

Mr. Taylor is taking issue with claims two weeks ago in the Record by Derek Satnik stating that 9,000 deaths a year occur in Ontario due to coal fired plants emissions. This claim was also written up here in the Advocate on March 26/11. Although the Ontario Medical Association agrees with Mr. Satnik, Mr. Taylor is presenting different opinions as well as computer modelling which he says does not support the 9,000 deaths per year claim. Although I'm skeptical of Mr. Taylor's facts nevertheless he does make a good argument.