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Engaging Solutions
Gord Miller Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
ONEIA Feb 28, 2012
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Overview
l Engaging Provincial Solutions l Biodiversity Matters l Planning Solutions l Getting on with Environment Business l Emerging Issues
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Great Lakes without a COA
l Unilaterally, Ontario could implement the following: – Expand the Lake Simcoe protection approach to the Great Lakes; – Get serious about combined sewer overflows; – Report on pollutant loadings; – Build full-cost recovery into the water taking charge; – Unleash the potential of the Clean Water Act, 2006 – Build on successes like the cosmetic pesticides ban; – Ban Asian carp imports, dead or alive; – Defend wetlands; – Curb agricultural runoff; – Harness a broader range of ministries to delver GL restoration;
and – Champion the Great Lakes.
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Ontario’s Great Lakes Fishery Legacy
No Data for Atlantic Salmon But they went Extinct
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Unlikely Species at Risk Icon
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Recognising the Need for Green Infrastructure
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Stormwater: Our Neglected Headwaters
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Stormwater: Our Neglected Headwaters
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Cottages at Rondeau Provincial Park
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Budgets at MOE + MNR as %
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Waste Diversion Current Situation
l Diversion only 23% l More tonnes going to landfill l WDA review process and proposed
amendments in Limbo l Diversion funded by a strange mix of
property taxes, provincial revenues and stewards
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Current Situation
l Diversion only 23% l More tonnes going to landfill l WDA review process and proposed
amendments in Limbo l Diversion funded by a strange mix of
property taxes, provincial revenues and stewards
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Current Situation
l Diversion only 23% l More tonnes going to landfill l WDA review process and proposed
amendments in Limbo l Diversion funded by a strange mix of
property taxes, provincial revenues and stewards
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Will Rogers …
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”
Thank You For Your Attention