New Waste Management Policies
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 difficult area of waste management. All municipalities with populations over 100,00 must develop 20-to-25-year...
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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 “advice on targets and scenarios for reducing emissions...
Continue reading the post titled NTREE adds economic facts to the fireChanges in Energy from Waste Approvals
This year’s changes to the approval process for energy from waste facilities has caused a commotion in Hamilton. In April 2004 the Government of Ontario announced its intent to acquire 2500 MW of privately funded renewable energy generation capacity. One of the responders, Liberty Energy, has spent the past three years developing plans for a...
Continue reading the post titled Changes in Energy from Waste ApprovalsAre our migratory birds protected?
One of the oldest international environmental treaties is the 1916 Convention between the United States (US) and Great Britain for the Protection of Migratory Birds in the US and Canada. It was adopted after the destruction of the once ubiquitous passenger pigeon, to require each country to protect the remaining birds that fly between them....
Continue reading the post titled Are our migratory birds protected?Important changes re brownfields
Many sites that now count as "clean" will no longer be "clean"; a few that now count as contaminated will now be considered clean.
Continue reading the post titled Important changes re brownfieldsNew Zero Waste Policy
Major changes coming for waste management in Ontario- blue box to change to 100% producer funding?
Continue reading the post titled New Zero Waste PolicyMore questions about the Toxics Reduction Bill
Many Ontario employers have serious concerns about Bill 167, the proposed Toxics Reduction Act. Despite several consultation sessions, significant questions remain unanswered. For example, Why does the Bill allow all three levels of government to regulate a single industry’s use or release of a single substance?
Continue reading the post titled More questions about the Toxics Reduction BillNTREE calls for national carbon pricing and cap and trade
The federally-appointed National Round Table on Environment and Economy has issued an important new report, Achieving 2050: a Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada. According to the NTREE: it is urgent to act decisively, even in the face of current economic turbulence and evolving climate science. Calling for changes much more drastic than in the Dion...
Continue reading the post titled NTREE calls for national carbon pricing and cap and tradeExcess material or waste?
The Ministry of the Environment has tried and failed to introduce a rational excess materials policy. In its absence, the province has established two main benchmarks for excavation fill, but they do not match.
Continue reading the post titled Excess material or waste?Ecojustice puts teeth in SARA
The [applicants] bring this Application only in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Canadian government is attempting to avoid its obligation to implement the SARA so as to protect Canada’s at-risk species.
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