This 2004/2005 ECO annual report was submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on Nov 1, 2005. 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 Planning Our Landscape 1.1 Part 1 The Environmental Bill of Rights 1.2 Part 3 Significant Issues 1.3 Part 4 Ministry Environmental Decisions 1.4 Part 5 Applications for Review and Investigation 1.5 Part 7 Ministry Progress 1.6 Part 8 Developing Issues 1.7 Recommendations

Planning Our Landscape

• A Message from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

Part 1 The Environmental Bill of Rights

• Introduction to the 2004/05 Annual Report

Part 3 Significant Issues

• Strong Communities Act
• 2005 Provincial Policy Statement
  • Limits to Growth
• The Greenbelt Act, 2005, and the Greenbelt Plan
• Updates:
  • MOE’s Proposal to Control Industrial Air Emissions
  • Climate Change
  • Land Application of Septage
  • Great Lakes Water Resources Agreements
  • Ontario Biodiversity Strategy
  • Highway Construction Practices
  • Enforcement of the Fisheries Act

Part 4 Ministry Environmental Decisions

• Ontario’s Forest Fire Management Strategy
• Provincial Wood Supply Strategy
• Aquaculture Policies and Procedures
• Conserving Ontario’s Wolves: Steps Forward
• Aggregate Extraction on the North Shore of Lake Superior
• Encouraging Brownfield Redevelopment – Ontario Regulation 153/04 91
• Adams Mine Lake Act – Bill 49
• Pretreatment of Hazardous Waste: Development of a Regulatory Framework
• Wind Power Development on Crown Land
• ENG Restructures the Electricity Sector – Bill 100
• Environmental Protection Requirements for Highway Projects
• The Class EA for Provincial Transportation Facilities
• Water Taking and Transfer Regulation
• Proposal for a Scrap Tire Diversion Program Plan

Part 5 Applications for Review and Investigation

• Treatment of Landfill Leachate in Sewage Treatment Plants
• Combined Sewer Overflows and Beach Closures
• Aquaculture in Georgian Bay – Water Quality and Environmental Monitoring
• The Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program
• Rehabilitation of Pits and Quarries in Ontario
• Management Strategy for Double-crested Cormorants at Presqu’ile Provincial Park
• Species at Risk
• Bad Drainage Planning: The McNabb Drain

Part 7 Ministry Progress

• Ministry Responses to Past ECO Recommendations
  • Safe Drinking Water Act
  • Environmental Assessment Review Process
  • The Drive Clean Program
  • Municipal Sewage Treatment Plants
  • Mercury in the Ecosystem
  • PWQO for Nitrate
  • Regulation 903 – Wells Regulation
  • Prescribing the Nutrient Management Act under the EBR
  • Protected Areas Legislation
  • Protected Areas Management Planning
  • Protected Areas and Mining Disentanglement
  • Ecological Land Acquisition Program
  • Water Management Plans under the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act
  • Invasive Species Strategy
  • Lake Trout
  • Aggregate Industry Compliance
  • Aggregate Resource Status
  • Forestry Compliance
  • MNR – Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program
  • Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act
  • Classifying Instruments under the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act
  • Management Board Secretariat and Ministry of Energy

• Ministry Cooperation

• The ECO Recognition Award

Part 8 Developing Issues

• Human Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: An Emerging Issue
• Building Conservation in Ontario
• Invasive Alien Garden Plants and Ontario’s Biodiversity
• Peat: An Unmanaged Natural Resource?
• Sustaining the Urban Forest

Recommendations

• 2004/05 Recommendations