Redefining Conservation
From Eco Issues
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Redefining Conservation
- Commissioner’s message
- 1 The Environmental Bill of Rights
- 1.1 The ECO Recognition Award: Green Power for MTO’s Summer Beaver Airport
- 1.2 Education and Outreach
Developing a Conserving Society
- 2 Introduction
- 2.1 Powering the Future: The Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009
- 2.2 Ramping Up Renewables: MOE’s Renewable Energy Approvals
- 2.3 MNR Approvals for Greening the Grid
- 2.4 Mandatory GHG Reporting: What gets Measured gets Managed
- 2.5 Pricing Carbon: Can a Cap-and-Trade System Deliver the Tonnes?
Conserving our biodiversity
- 3 Introduction
- 3.1 Climate Change and Biodiversity Turmoil
- 3.2 Wanted: One Billion Trees
- 3.3 Species at Risk: Progress and the Path Ahead
- 3.3.1 International Year of Biodiversity
- 3.3.2 Dam the American Eels
- 3.3.3 Space for the Redside Dace
- 3.4 A Place to Call Home: Nine Species Receive Regulated Habitat Protection
- 3.4.1 Much Ado About Wood Turtles
- 3.5 Mixed Results: Wildlife Management of Caribou, Moose, Elk and Deer
- 3.6 Managing Black Bears: Thinking Beyond Harvest?
- 3.7 Forest Management: Conserving Biodiversity at the Stand and Site Scale
- 3.8 Bringing Ecological Integrity to the Landscape: Ontario’s Protected Areas Planning Manual
Conserving Environmental Quality
- 4 Introduction
- 4.1 Sewage Treatment: Not Good Enough
- 4.1.1 Ottawa’s Overflow Woes
- 4.1.2 Success Story: Guelph Optimizes its Sewage Treatment
- 4.1.3 When Bigger Isn’t Better: Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems
- 4.2 Moving From End-of-Pipe to Front-End Toxics Reduction in Ontario
- 4.3 Not Airtight: Amendments to Ontario’s Air Quality Regulation
- 4.4 How’s the Air on Your Street?
- 4.5 A Watershed Moment? Ontario Introduces the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan
- 4.6 The Drainage Act: Drying up Ontario’s Wetlands
Modernizing Mining in Ontario
- 5 Introduction
- 5.1 Reforming the Mining Act
- 5.1.1 The Need to Legislate Development and Mineral Exploration in Uranium Zones
- 5.1.2 Ring of Fire: Illegal Construction of Mining-related Projects
- 5.1.3 Ring of Fire: Using Mining Claims to Plan the Far North
Redefining Waste
- 6 Introduction
- 6.1 Aging Landfills: Ontario’s Forgotten Polluters
- 6.1.1 Ontario's Old Dumps: Patch them Up or Shut them Down
- 6.2 Shedding the Spare Tires: Rolling Out Ontario’s Used Tires Program
- 6.2.1 Sewage Biosolids: New Rules for Use on Agricultural Land
- 6.3 Compost: Appreciating Nature’s Sense of Humus
- 6.3.1 Biochar: The Promising Future for an Ancient Process
Public Concerns Raised: Applications
- 7 Introduction
- 7.1 Pushing for Natural Heritage Planning on the Waterloo and Paris-Galt Moraines
- 7.2 The Potential Impacts of Electricity Projects on the Environment
- 7.3 Sand Excavation: When a “Pit is not a “Pit”
- 7.4 Not Enough Time: Challenging the Appeal Period under the EBR
- 7.5 Too Much Time Waste in Cambridge Groundwater Contamination
- 7.5.1 Investigation Denied: A Convenient Dodge of an EBR Responsibility
- 7.6 Planning for Stormy Weather
- 7.7 Protecting Tourism Values in Temagami
- 7.8 More Applications of Interest: Energy Audits, Biomedical Waste and Funding for Conservation Authorities
Ministries and the Environmental Bill of Rights
- 8 Introduction
- 8.1 Keeping the EBR in Sync with New Laws
- 8.2 Statements of Environmental Values Consideration: Some Best Practices
- 8.3 No Longer in Service: Spot-Checks on Ministry Service to the Public
- 8.4 Ministry Cooperation with the ECO
The Environmental Registry
- 9 Introduction
- 9.1 Quality of Posting Information
- 9.1.1 Every Comment Counts
- 9.2 Reviews of Unposted Decisions
- 9.3 Use of Information Notices
- 9.3.1 Cage Aquaculture Licenses: Fishy Public Consultation
- 9.4 Use of Exception Notices
- 9.5 Late Decision Notices and Undecided Proposals
