This 1999/2000 ECO annual report was submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on Nov 1, 2000. You can download the full report and see all related communications materials here. Click here to read other ECO Reports to the Legislature.

Contents 1 Changing Perspectives 1.1 Part 1 The Environmental Bill of Rights 1.2 Part 3 Significant Issues 1999-2000 1.3 Part 4 Ministry Environmental Decisions 1.4 Part 5 Reviews and Investigations 1.5 Part 8 Developing Issues 1.6 Recommendations

Changing Perspectives

Part 1 The Environmental Bill of Rights

Part 3 Significant Issues 1999-2000

• Protecting Ontario’s Groundwater
• The Canada-Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem (COA)
• Protection of Species at Risk
• Intensive Farming
• The Sale of Government Lands

Part 4 Ministry Environmental Decisions

• Ontario’s Living Legacy – Land Use Strategy
• Recognizing and Encouraging Voluntary Action
• Classification and Exemption of Spills: Amending Regulation 675/98 of the Environmental Protection Act (EPA)
• MNR’s Natural Heritage Reference Manual
• Closing the Spring Bear Hunt
• Additional Exemptions from Certificates of Approval for Air: Environmental Protection Act, Regulation 505/99
• Amendments to Regulation 828, Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act
• Setting Environmental Quality Standards in Ontario: MOE’s Standards Plan
• The Need for Action

Part 5 Reviews and Investigations

• Nuisance Impacts from Discharges of Noise and Odours
• Electricity Restructuring
• Forestry
  • Alleged Contraventions of the Environmental Assessment Act by MNR
• Hazardous Waste
• Landfills
• Abandoned Mines
• Investigation: Aggregate Resources Act

Part 8 Developing Issues

• Ecosystem Monitoring
• Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture
• Ecosystem Fragmentation

Recommendations

• 1999/2000 Recommendations