Latest anti-wind appeal ends with a whimper
Just as wind scientists have noted for years, he testified that health effects are based primarily on people’s opinions about the turbines. Therefore, he said, if an individual believes that a turbine will harm him or her, that person will suffer such harm, and therefore turbines should n…
View the post titled Latest anti-wind appeal ends with a whimperNew Cycling Strategy for Ministry of Transportation
As ghost bikes (marking the site of a cycling death) multiply around Toronto, the Ministry of Transportation has announced its plans to respond to the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s “Cycling Death Review”. Comments on EBR posting 011-7552 are invited until January 31, 2013. As a first step, MTO …
View the post titled New Cycling Strategy for Ministry of TransportationToxin in your tank: lead and violence around the world
Looking back, it's hard to think of any public policy error worse than putting lead in gasoline.
View the post titled Toxin in your tank: lead and violence around the worldSiskinds lawyers listed in Lexpert’s Report on Business Special Edition: Litigation.
Siskinds is pleased to announce that two of our lawyers have been identified as leaders in Litigation in Lexpert’s Report on Business Special Edition: Litigation. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate: Scott Ritchie Q.C.Charles M. Wright Inclusion in the Special Report is …
View the post titled Siskinds lawyers listed in Lexpert’s Report on Business Special Edition: Litigation.Lethal buildings slaughter migratory and threatened birds
It’s a horror story – the beautiful glass-walled building you may work, shop or live in are wastefully killing millions of migratory birds. Many readers are likely familiar with the distressing thud of a bird breaking its neck or wing on those lovely glass panes, often at night when the ligh…
View the post titled Lethal buildings slaughter migratory and threatened birdsAustralian Parliament Senate rejects anti-wind bill, notes nocebo effect
An anti-wind nocebo response is developing, caused by the reproduction and dissemination of claims about adverse health impacts – claims not grounded in the peer-reviewed literature
View the post titled Australian Parliament Senate rejects anti-wind bill, notes nocebo effectAbitibi wins, Newfoundland cleanup order unenforceable after insolvency
Provincial governments must do more to ensure that cleanup costs are provided by financial assurance during the active life of a business, and not rely on getting innocent third parties to pay for cleanups after the fact.
View the post titled Abitibi wins, Newfoundland cleanup order unenforceable after insolvencyA reader writes about environmental management systems
Dear Dianne Saxe, I read some of your postings this am. I cannot help but think that if robust, credible and reliable EMS (aligned to ISO 14001) were more wide spread that some of these challenges could have been avoided. Not only would they have avoided the environmental damage, but the fin…
View the post titled A reader writes about environmental management systemsNew voluntary standard for carbon storage
The Canadian Standards Association has released a voluntary standard for the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide, CSA Z741. The CSA Z741 Geological storage of carbon dioxide standard is the first of its kind, and is intended to ensure a clear minimum standard for geologic (long-term, underg…
View the post titled New voluntary standard for carbon storageWhen can municipalities regulate environmental impacts?
Eleven years after the landmark Spraytech case, how far have municipalities been able to go in regulating environmental impacts of federally and provincially regulated activities? The people who must live closest to a resource or energy project often turn to their municipalities to protect t…
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