How much waste really gets recycled?
Here’s a fun graphic summarizing US data on household waste and recycling, courtesy of Bolt Insurance:
View the post titled How much waste really gets recycled?Drummond on environment, how helpful?
Last week, we posted chapter 13 of Don Drummond’s report, the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services, the section on the Ministry of the Environment. Here, in brief, are his recommendations. Other than the general good advice that the MOE should eliminate duplication and…
View the post titled Drummond on environment, how helpful?Ten top environmental civil cases in 2011
Dianne spoke to an attentive audience at the Ontario Bar Association’s Annual Institute on the ten top environmental civil cases of 2011 (and the first part of 2012).
View the post titled Ten top environmental civil cases in 2011WSIB benefits for traumatic mental stress: There’s good news and …
You may think that the WSIB pays benefits to a worker for traumatic mental stress only in situations where the worker was involved in a situation perceived as or actually life-threatening. And you would have been right until recently, when the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Appeals Tri…
View the post titled WSIB benefits for traumatic mental stress: There’s good news and …Punishing cost to protect natural area
How much should municipalities have to pay to preserve sensitive areas? Windsor paid so dearly in Windsor (City) v. Paciorka, 2011 ONSC 2876, that other municipalities may be loath to try. The City expropriated 267 lots to preserve an environmentally sensitive area. The developer refused the…
View the post titled Punishing cost to protect natural areaWind and health: an Australian update
Here is another comprehensive website on wind turbines and claims of adverse health effects, this time from Australia, but which follows information from around the world. Australia is also the site of a thorough literature review on the topic by the National Health and Research Council, whi…
View the post titled Wind and health: an Australian updateEcojustice victory for endangered species
Why doesn’t the federal government protect endangered species without Ecojustice* taking them to court? In December 2010, Ecojustice won their lawsuit against the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans for failing to protect killer whale habitat in B.C. In its plan to protect the w…
View the post titled Ecojustice victory for endangered speciesJail for victim of vandalism?
1197338 Ontario Inc. was fined $150,000 plus the 25% Victim Fine Surcharge for failing to comply with a Director’s Order to clean up a spill of PCBs; its president, Lawrence Brander was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the same offence. But why did the spill occur?
View the post titled Jail for victim of vandalism?Siskinds is happy to once again support the 9th Annual Courthouse Rocks in support of the London Lawyers Feed the Hungry Program.
Courthouse Rocks IX will be returning to Downtown Kathy Brown’s on March 23rd, 2012 for a night of live musical entertainment by local lawyers, judges and clerk’s. The London Lawyers Feed the Hungry Program is the initiative by local lawyers to provide meals and food security to the less fo…
View the post titled Siskinds is happy to once again support the 9th Annual Courthouse Rocks in support of the London Lawyers Feed the Hungry Program.Drummond report: doing more with less
The Ministry of the Environment will have to do less, charge more and become much more efficient in a time of government constraint, according to today’s Drummond Report:
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