Zephyr Wind REA Appeal dropped
To date, every Renewable Energy Approval for a wind farm has been appealed to the Environmental Review Tribunal. The Environmental Review Tribunal rejected the first appeal, for the Kent Breeze wind farm, but ruled that it will allow the same or similar evidence in subsequent cases.11-208 MI…
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Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment issued 10 environmental penalty orders in 2011, for 32 violations, all against MISA companies for discharging too much contamination to water. The total penalty value associated with these orders was $167,642.95.How does this compare to previous years?
Continue reading the post titled 2011 Environmental penalty ordersPrenatal /child toxics and chronic disease
The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) has released a video to help families reduce child health risks associated with common household toxics. Their top five priorities:
Continue reading the post titled Prenatal /child toxics and chronic diseaseBizarre rules on Record of Site Condition
Here’s another bizarre rule about Records of Site Condition for contaminated sites where land-uses change:
Continue reading the post titled Bizarre rules on Record of Site ConditionAir Quality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Transportation
Environmental Guide for Assessing and Mitigating the Air Quality Impacts and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Provincial Transportation Projects. To provide a more defensible evaluation of the air quality/ greenhouse gas impacts of highway projects, used in environmental assessments, the Ministry…
Continue reading the post titled Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of TransportationGreen transition scoreboard
Now, for some good news: The latest report on the Green Transition Scoreboard® describes $3.3T of private investments in the green economy since 2007. This is a significant jump since last year and shows that, while the traditional global economy is quite stagnant, the green economy is grow…
Continue reading the post titled Green transition scoreboardConstruction accident spill
Balterre Contracting Limited was fined $200,000 for rupturing a natural gas pipeline during road construction, spilling natural gas into the environment, causing an adverse effect.
Continue reading the post titled Construction accident spillSoot: another path to climate action… if we take it
What’s the best way to slow climate change? Governments have mostly wasted the last twenty years, conspicuously failing to effectively reduce the greenhouse gases in the Kyoto Protocol basket ( CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulphur hexafluoride)…
Continue reading the post titled Soot: another path to climate action… if we take itBP civil claims trial start delayed
Civil claims arising from the explosion and oil spills of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig were scheduled to start trial today before U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. More than 500 lawsuits against BP PLC and other defendants were consolidated into one of the largest multidistrict litigatio…
Continue reading the post titled BP civil claims trial start delayedHow much waste really gets recycled?
Here’s a fun graphic summarizing US data on household waste and recycling, courtesy of Bolt Insurance:
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