Toxics
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 »
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 »
Another Coal Ash Spill - This Time in Lake Michigan
Submitted by Kristina Jackson on Wed, 2011-11-09 10:32From Sierra Club Compass - newsletter of the Beyond Coal Campaign
How many more coal ash spills need to happen before Americans are protected by coal ash safeguards? The latest happened Monday in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant.... Read more »
Halloween makeup: safe or toxic?
Some parents may think the ghost-white makeup they slather on their kids’ faces this Halloween night is safe because of the “non-toxic” label on the package.
Think again, says John Bennett.
Bennett, executive director of Sierra Club Canada, says many makeup products that claim to be non-toxic contain heavy metals such as lead. That shocking revelation is highlighted in a 2009 report titled Pretty Scary: Could Halloween Face Paint Cause Lifelong Health Problems? by the U.S.-based Campaign for Safer Cosmetics.
Ten out of 10 face-paint products tested contained lead, which can harm children’s developing brains, the report said. Six out of 10 contained nickel, cobalt and/or chromium at higher-than-recommended levels.
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Environmental Groups Urge Rejection of Revised Fish Lake Mine Proposal
VICTORIA and VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Taseko’s revised proposal for a Fish Lake gold and copper mine would be even more of “an environmental disaster” than the company’s original proposal and must be turned down for federal public review, 11 environmental groups said today.
The Canadian Environment Assessment Agency (CEAA) is scheduled to decide by November 7 whether to accept for review Taseko’s revised “New Prosperity Mine” project in B.C.’s interior--a project the company itself has said would wreak more damage than its first proposal. Taseko’s first $1 billion proposal was rejected by the federal government last November, following initial approval by the B.C. government. ... Read more »
