Tag: minister of the environment

  • Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan: Canada Launches Phase II

    This video presents “Contaminated Sites”: “What the environment commissioner has to say about cleaning up Canada’s 22,000 contaminated sites Margo McDiarmid reports on the progress and the cost“ The Government of Canada is launching Phase II of the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan. The Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP): is a 15-year program established…

  • Community Fund to Protect & Restore Ontario’s Great Lakes: Apply Now, July 24-Oct.12, 2012

    This video presents “Incredible by Any Measure… the Great Lakes”: The Nature Conservancy shows the importance of protecting and restoring the world’s largest freshwater system: Did you know that Ontario’s Great Lakes form the longest freshwater coastline in the world stretching more than 11,000 kilometres? In appreciation of these marvelously vital ecological resources, the provincial…

  • Ontario Gives Green Light to Link Three Cities Via the Waterloo Rapid Transit

    This video gives a detailed explanation of the Waterloo Rapid Transit Plan: On May 17, 2012, Jim Bradley the Minister of the Environment signed the “MINISTER’S NOTICE TO PROCEED WITH TRANSIT PROJECT” (Ontario Regulation 231108; SUBSECTION 12(l)(a)) allowing the Regional Municipality of Waterloo to proceed with the  Rapid Transit Project, in accordance with the applicable…

  • 2012! Happy New Year!

    Wishing our readers a better, healthier, and Happier New Year 2012! It’s been an amazing year! Thank you for your marvellous help; together we had accomplished so much as well as made great differences as follows:

  • Changes to Ontario’s Drive Clean for Canadian Motorists: Effective Today

    This is an update to my previous blog Ontario’s Drive Clean Test Exemptions of Vehicles Less Than Seven Years Old, September 1, 2011. Effective today the following changes to Drive Clean will save Canadians in Ontario time and money as well as protect the air we breathe by improving the quality of our air via…

  • Your Canadian Water Quality: Ontario’s Report

    The summer’s sweltering heat certainly makes us drink lots of water. And are you wondering about the quality of Canadian water in your glass? According to the following stats from the Chief Drinking Water Inspector’s Annual Report 2009 – 2010, your municipal residential drinking water systems are delivering safe, high quality tap water: 99.88 per…

  • Ontario’s Drive Clean Test Exemptions of Vehicles Less Than Seven Years Old, September 1, 2011

    As an Ontario driver, you will be pleased to know that you can save some money and time through the proposed provincial changes to Drive Clean Testing program which will continue helping to protect the environment. Effective September 1, 2011, Ontario Drive Clean Testing will have the following exemptions on vehicles from being tested as…