August 11, 2012 The Editors The Toronto Star 1 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario Dear Sir/Madam, Re: “Bruce Power gets reprieve over delays” Surely the delays in completing the Bruce Nuclear refurbishment project arising from errors in the drawings provided to …
Response to Tom Flanigan’s “To connect the pipeline, connect the dots” published in the Globe and Mail August 7, 2012
August 5, 2012 The Editors The Globe and Mail 444 Front St. Toronto, Ontario Dear Sir/Madam, In his enthusiasm for the muscular use of federal constitutional authority to compel reluctant provinces to accept the infrastructure necessary to implement the Harper …
Re: “Controlling wind power could save $225 million” Letter to Editor Published in the Toronto Star June 4, 2012
May 30, 2012 The Editors The Toronto Star 1 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario Dear Sir/Madam. Re: “Controlling wind power could save $225 million.” The situation with respect to the growing contribution of wind power in Ontario and the problems causes …
Re: McGuinty Threatens Election Call – Letter to the Editor Published in Globe and Mail June 16, 2012
June 15, 2012 The Editors The Globe and Mail 444 Front St. Toronto Re: McGuinty threatens election call. Dear Sir/Madam, The McGuinty government’s gutting of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act and other environmental legislation no more belongs in the province’s budget …
Understanding the Harper Government’s Assault on Canada’s Environment and its Consequences
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s federal government has been signalling for some time its intent to significantly ‘streamline’ environmental protection requirements in Canada, especially as they apply to oil, gas and mining projects. The full scope of the government’s plans has …
The 2012 Federal and Ontario Budgets and the Environment
The following summary of the environmental implications of the 2012 Federal and Ontario Budgets draws on the work of Chris Winter of the Conservation Council of Ontario ( http://www.weconserve.ca/cco/) as well as environmental lawyer Diane Saxe More commentary from me …
The Drummond Report and Ontario’s Future
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government is widely seen to have survived the province’s October 2011 election less as a result of its own appeal to the electorate and more as a result of errors and misfortunes on the part of …
The Drummond Report and the Environment, Energy, Natural Resources and Public Safety in Ontario.
General Observations As expected the Report of the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services (a.k.a. the Drummond Report) report is extremely broad in scope. The report’s most interesting, imaginative and detailed aspects deal with health care. Its elements …
There’s No Green in Harperland: The Northern Gateway, the “Radical Groups,” and what it means for the future of Canada’s Environment, Economy and Politics.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s “open letter” on diversifying Canada’s energy markets and reforming the regulatory approval process for energy projects, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s remarks in an interview with The National’s Peter Mansbridge last week regarding the …
Hitting Bottom – Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol – Published in the Toronto Star December 16, 2011
Yesterday’s announcement by federal environment minister Peter Kent of Canada’s intention to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol marks the country’s lowest point in the forty year history of modern global environmental diplomacy. The protocol, which Canada signed in 1997 …