Big Drive Clean fines for car owners
Ontario car owners are now receiving thousand dollar fines, or higher, for trying to evade Drive Clean testing.
View the post titled Big Drive Clean fines for car ownersChrome contamination remediation researcher?
We’re looking for help on a research project relating to remediation of hexavalent chrome in soil and groundwater. Ideally, we’re looking for an environmental chemist or engineer with relevant training and experience interested in a one year contract. If interested, please send c…
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Twelve years after the Walkerton water disaster, the first source water protection plan under the Clean Water Act, 2006, has been completed and submitted by the Lakehead Source Protection Committee, Thunder Bay.
View the post titled Lakehead completes first Clean Water Act source protection planCan municipal councillors be personally liable for drinking water?
Municipal councillors are generally protected from personal liability, for any decisions they make in good faith in the course of their duties. This protection is incorporated into Municipal Acts of each province. For example, the Municipal Government Act of Alberta states:
View the post titled Can municipal councillors be personally liable for drinking water?Terratec Fined $105,000
Terratec Environmental Ltd. pled guilty to one offence under the Ontario Water Resources Act for applying anaerobic digestate to farmland, which escaped through an agricultural drain into Six Mile Creek. Checking for drains is a standard precaution before spreading anything on agricultural land.
View the post titled Terratec Fined $105,000Health, wind, science, and our sad federal priorities
Since Ontario regulations already require mitigation if noise is predicted to exceed 40 dBA at sensitive receptors, will it help to spend two years proving that there ought to be mitigation at 45 dBA?
View the post titled Health, wind, science, and our sad federal prioritiesSoil remediation: smell test stands up in court
The latest decision in the Horvath saga has upheld the “smell test” in delineating home furnace oil contamination for remediation.
View the post titled Soil remediation: smell test stands up in courtMore Regulation for Geothermal Heat Pumps
The Ministry of the Environment moved swiftly this spring to increase regulation of geothermal (ground-sourced) heat pump installations, because of an urgent risk of releasing hazardous underground gases. Ontario revoked the old regulation governing Ground Source Heat Pumps and replaced it w…
View the post titled More Regulation for Geothermal Heat PumpsClimate crisis: Insurers Tell Weather Like It Is
Our federal government does not like to talk about climate change, so the Insurance Bureau of Canada has released a hard hitting report on the damage that climate change is already causing in Canada: Telling the Weather Story: Can Canada Manage the Storms Ahead? This is the same message tha…
View the post titled Climate crisis: Insurers Tell Weather Like It IsEnvironmental debates in Hansard
Ecojustice has provided another public service: Environmental Hansard, an easy-to-use website that collects, organizes and distills federal political dialogue on the environment.
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