This 2005/2006 ECO annual report was submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on October 3, 2006. You can download the full report (including articles not yet available here) and see all related communications materials here. Click here to read other ECO Reports to the Legislature.

Contents 1 Neglecting our Obligations 1.1 Part 1: Introduction 1.2 Part 2 Significant Issues 1.2.1 Updates 1.3 Part 3 Ministry Environmental Decisions 1.4 Part 4 Applications for Review and Investigation 1.5 Recommendations

Neglecting our Obligations

• A Message from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

Part 1: Introduction

• Introduction to 2005/06 Annual Report

Part 2 Significant Issues

• Managing Great Lakes Waters
• Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: The Canada Ontario Agreement
• Protecting Drinking Water Sources: The Clean Water Act
• 60% Waste Diversion by 2008 – Pipe Dream or Reality?
• The Environmental Impacts of Ontario’s Small and Aging Landfills – Who Is Keeping Track?
• Ontario’s Sand and Gravel Extraction Policy: Overdue for Review
• A Sustainable Transportation System for Ontario: MOE and MTO Remove One Roadblock, But Others Remain

Updates

• Lake Trout Management
• Neglecting Our Water Wells
• Acquiring Land/Saving Nature
• Brownfield Development Becomes More Transparent
• Adapting to a Changing Climate – Neglecting Our Basic Obligations?

Part 3 Ministry Environmental Decisions

• Conserving Ontario’s Biodiversity: Moving Forward?
• Provincial Strategy for Wolves
• Amending the Ontario Heritage Act
• Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program
• Environmental Protection Requirements for Highway Projects: The Oak Ridges Moraine
• Pretreatment of Hazardous Waste
• Updating Ontario’s Regulatory Framework for Local Air Quality
• Ontario’s Industry Emissions Trading System for Nitrogen Oxides and Sulphur Dioxide
• Bill 133: Putting the Lid on Spills
• Smaller Drinking Water Systems: An Interim Solution
  • Systems Subject to O.Reg. 252/05
• Amending the Nutrient Management Regulation
• Instruments

Part 4 Applications for Review and Investigation

• Prescribing Education: Crucial to Future Sustainability
• Regulating Logging in Algonquin Park
• Prescribing MTO: More Scrutiny of Ontario’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Needed: Big Picture Planning for the Northern Boreal
• MOE Neglects Obligations, Delays Action on Ozone Depleting Substances
• The Aggregate Resources Act: Conservation … or Unconstrained Consumption?
• Sewage Bypasses at the City of Kingston
• Wildlife in Captivity: The Licensing of Ontario’s Zoos
• MOE Reviews Rules for Sewage Haulers … Outside the EBR

Recommendations

• 2005/06 Recommendations