This 2006/2007 ECO annual report was submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on December 4, 2007. 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 Reconciling Our Priorities 1.1 Part 1: Introduction 1.2 Part 2: Significant Issues 1.3 Part 3: Ministry Environmental Decisions 1.4 Part 4: Applications for Review and Investigation 1.5 Part 8: Developing Issues 1.6 Recommendations

Reconciling Our Priorities

• Commissioner's Message: Reconciling Our Priorities (is no piece of cake)

Part 1: Introduction

• Introduction to 2006/07 Annual Report

Part 2: Significant Issues

• Significant Issues
• Irreconcilable Priorities: The Challenge of Creating Sustainable Communities in Southern Ontario
  • Introduction: Accommodating Economic Growth
  • Case study: Dockside Green
  • Living sustainably within a watershed, OR Pushing beyond natural limits?
  • Case study: Nega-litres - the soft path for water
  • Creating a sustainable transportation system, OR Paving over the landscape?
  • Road expansion: Impact on wetlands
  • Protecting wetlands, OR Draining for development?
  • Preserving natural areas, OR Extracting aggregates wherever they lay?
  • Growth and the environment of Southern Ontario: Some final thoughts
• Developing priorities: The challenge of creating a sustainable planning system in Northern Ontario
  • The Need to Systematically Plan for the North?
  • Silo Mentalities: Environmental Assessments North of the AOU
  • Land Use Planning in the Northern Boreal Initiative
  • Forestry and Wood Supply
  • Silo Mentalities: Transmission Lines through the North
  • Reforming Mining Law: MNDM's Mineral Development Strategy for Ontario
  • Silo Mentalities: Protected Areas and Mining – Lessons Learned?
  • Duty to Consult with First Nations
  • Big picture approach to planning
  • Precautionary approach to land use planning
  • Going Forward: A clean slate
• Conserving woodland caribou: the benchmark for Northern sustainability
• Ontario's Electricity System

Updates

• • The Recreational Fishery: A risky streamlining of the rules?
  • Ontario gives a big boost to glass recycling
  • Missed opportunity on Environmental Assessment reforms?
  • Reforming the Endangered Species Act

Part 3: Ministry Environmental Decisions

• Ministry Environmental Decisions
• Protected Areas Law: Ecological integrity as the first priority
• Providing municipalities with new tools for sustainability
• Aggregates Procedures Manual
• Clean Water Act
• Interesting instruments on the Registry: Waste Pelletization
• The Whitefeather forest and adjacent areas community-based land use strategy
• More decisions of interest

Part 4: Applications for Review and Investigation

• Applications for Review and Investigation
• Road salt: Can ice-free roads and environmental protection be reconciled?
• Our cratered landscape: Can pits and quarries be rehabilitated?
• Review of the regulatory framework for sewage biosolids
• Algonquin: Can ecological integrity and logging be reconciled in our flagship park?
• Portlands Energy Centre
• More applications of interest

Part 8: Developing Issues

• Developing Issues
• Flooding Hazards: Prevent and Mitigate, or Compensate and Rehabilitate?

Recommendations

• 2006/07 Recommendations