NTREE adds economic facts to the fire
The federal government’s Clean Air Agenda has received another blow with the release of the Interim Report of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy. This eminent multi-stakeholder group, one member of which has just been nominated for a Nobel Prize, was asked for R…
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The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) has announced substantial new regulations and related guidance documents, as they continue to build towards the October 10 election. The long-awaited Environmental Penalties Regulations will, as expected, come into force August 1, 2007. These are the fir…
Continue reading the post titled ActsMaking money from climate change
One of the fascinating things about last week’s EECO conference was that no one was there to debate the terrifying science of climate change. Everyone at the leading edge has moved on to economics: who will make money from climate change, and how? Public and institutional interest in the iss…
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If You Love Our Children Productions has released its second documentary on children’s health and the environment, Toxic Trespass. The film explores frightening links between pollution and childhood cancer, focusing on high rates of illness in Windsor and in the Aamjiwnaang First Natio…
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In yet another miscarriage of justice, Gemtec and Robert Lutes have lost their appeal from conviction under the Fisheries Act. His case now stands as a Canada-wide precedent that consultants can be convicted for their clients’ discharges, and that you must confirm in writing anything the gov…
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The Ministry of the Environment made two significant waste management policy announcements this week First, the Ministry has issued a proposed Policy Statement on Waste Management Planning. This is apparently esoteric topic will give direction to municipalities in the contentious and diffic…
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The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) has announced substantial new regulations and related guidance documents, as they continue to build towards the October 10 election. The long-awaited Environmental Penalties Regulations will, as expected, come into force August 1, 2007. These are the fir…
Continue reading the post titled New EP RegulationsLead Pipes and Drinking Water, #2
The Ministry of the Environment has responded to the furore over lead in drinking water with new regulations, and a proposal for more. Most of the resulting financial burden will, as usual, fall on the municipalities. • O.Reg. 243/07 (Schools, Private Schools and Day Nurseries – EBR posting …
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The Ontario Ministry of the Environment is releasing today data from tests of lead in drinking water in 36 municipalities. S. 11 of the Safe Drinking Water Act now requires municipalities to deliver safe drinking water “to the point where the [municipal] system is connected to a user’s plumb…
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Earlier this year, Stan Berger and I published our first annual Environmental Law, Year in Review, sold by Canada Law Book. One of the chapters has now been cited (and quoted) in a brief filed with the United States Supreme Court! The chapter, Beyond Trail Smelter: Assessing the Changes in I…
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