Toxics
Toxic Sludge
Over the past ten years, more and more industries have been allowed to put their industrial liquid wastes on agricultural lands as a kind of 'soil conditioner'. ... Read more »
Toxics Awareness and Education
One of Canada's most prominent environmental statutes is the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). In the 1970s Canada developed the Environmental Contaminants Act which served to regulate toxic substances throughout the 1970s and 80s. ... Read more »
Groups Urge Feds to Stop Funding Asbestos
"Changing the name from asbestos to chrysotile hasn't resulted in a safer product. Everywhere in the developing world where it is sold there are growing health impacts on some of the poorest people," said John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada.
Waste oil furnace smoke checked by P.E.I.
The P.E.I. Environment Department will be testing emissions from waste oil furnaces, following a ban on the burners in southern Ontario.
The furnaces use the waste from vehicle oil changes for heating, and there are about 30 of them on the Island, most of them at auto repair shops and trucking companies. The burners were made illegal in southern Ontario because of concerns about what was coming out of the furnace stacks, and going into the air.
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John Bennett, executive director of Sierra Club Canada, said the used oil burners release greenhouse gases and other contaminants, such as lead.
"We've come a long way, and we have to stop looking at the atmosphere as a dump and using people's lungs as a place to put our waste," said Bennett.
"The contaminants in the used engine oil are not in your furnace oil that you're heating your home with."... Read more »
Changing the Channel
Submitted by John Bennett on Thu, 2010-02-04 14:22
Riding on the bus this morning I was pondering how good Québec Premier Jean Charest looked standing up to Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, this week.
On Monday, Mr. Prentice attacked Québec for establishing California standards for car emissions which are tougher than the Xeroxing of U.S. federal fuel economy regulations that Mr. Prentice had his staff do in order to create national mileage regulations for Canada. Prentice talked about Quebec going alone when in fact there are 14 U.S. states and four other provinces in Canada that are all going down the same road.... Read more »
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