Environmental Protection Act

• Walmart, trailer rental company fined $155K for diesel spill in Cobourg, Ont. in 2020

  A diesel fuel spill in September 2020 entered a storm sewer drain. Cleanup removed 113,000 litres of diesel fuel-impacted surface water and 77 tonnes of impacted soils.

  Environment

  Sep 29, 2023
  
• Hamilton to see ‘visible work’ at Kay Drage as creek cleanup starts

  The city says dredging equipment is about a week away from being deployed into Chedoke Creek. A sweep of the area for large obstacles will completed in the next few days.

  Canada

  Jul 7, 2023
  
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• Canadians have right to healthy environment, new law says — but not right away

  Critics have said the law would be stronger if that right were enshrined in the Constitution, but the government is not interested in that change. 

  Environment

  Jun 13, 2023
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• Revised Ontario order gives Hamilton until end of October to complete dredging of Chedoke Creek

  An appeal from the City Of Hamilton has given staff more time to finish a remediation of the creek after the massive untreated wastewater spill.

  Environment

  Mar 15, 2023
• Hamilton to appeal environment ministry’s amended deadline for dredging of Chedoke Creek

  The City of Hamilton will fight an amended Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks Director’s Order relating to the Chedoke Creek remediation (dredging) project deadline.

  Environment

  Mar 10, 2023
• Environment ministry gives Hamilton until the end of August to finish dredging of Chedoke Creek

  A spokesperson for the ministry of the environment tells Global News the city has the needed permits and renewals to begin work with "no need to delay."

  Environment

  Mar 9, 2023
• Environment ministry extends deadline for Hamilton’s dredging of Chedoke Creek

  In a letter to Hamilton's director of watershed management on Tuesday, the ministry of environment extended the completion deadline of remediation work in Chedoke Creek.

  Environment

  Dec 21, 2022
• Right to healthy environment will need defining after becoming law, Ottawa says

  A proposed amendment to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act says the government will have up to two years after the bill takes effect to define what the right means.

  Environment

  Apr 28, 2022
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• City of Hamilton going to court to answer for ‘odour issues’ at composting facility

  City officials will appear in front of the Ontario court of justice in the new year.

  Environment

  Nov 27, 2020
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• Retail plastic bag ban in Newfoundland and Labrador to come into effect July 1

  Newfoundland and Labrador's government says it received 3,000 submissions during the consultation process that informed the regulations.

  Environment

  Jan 29, 2020