Drive Clean gets serious- $100,000 fine
Previous Drive Clean fines had tended to be modest, despite the financial incentive to cheat. This $125,000 penalty should make cheating less attractive.
View the post titled Drive Clean gets serious- $100,000 fineNew Approach to Air Reg. 419/05
Ontario hopes to reduce its transaction costs (and, perhaps, to avoid a court challenge to its O.Reg. 419/05) by grouping more than one facility within a sector, and by offering some sectors the option to use technology-based standards instead of points of impingement.
View the post titled New Approach to Air Reg. 419/05Jail for white collar environmental crimes
Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. has been fined $8 million for environmental and health and safety offences. Four of its senior managers have been sent to jail. Could it happen in Canada?
View the post titled Jail for white collar environmental crimesUS moving to mandatory GHG reporting
Canada risks being left behind as the US moves aggressively towards a reduced carbon future, starting with a broad rule on GHG reporting.
View the post titled US moving to mandatory GHG reportingRenewable energy approvals
One great feature of the Green Energy Act will be freeing renewable energy projects from the current straightjacket of Ministry of the Environment rules on “waste”.
View the post titled Renewable energy approvalsHow do factories control air pollution?
“How do factories control air pollution”? There are two basic options: pollution prevention and pollution control.
View the post titled How do factories control air pollution?Sansone and 310 Waste win new trial
In one of the biggest environmental cases of 2007/8, huge fines and jail sentences were imposed on the former owners and operators of a waste transfer site on Keele Street, in Vaughan. The site caught fire in 2004, creating a huge plume of choking smoke and enormous political heat. Toda…
View the post titled Sansone and 310 Waste win new trialLafarge denied leave to appeal
At a time when Ontario desperately needs innovative technology to rebuild its manufacturing base and cope with climate change, any further drag on innovation may do more harm than good.
View the post titled Lafarge denied leave to appealAir Pollution: what's really there?
industries already subject to Regulation 419 have found it to be much more difficult and expensive than they expected.
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