1. Engaging Solutions
Gord Miller
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
ONEIA Feb 28, 2012
2. Overview
l Engaging Provincial Solutions
l Biodiversity Matters
l Planning Solutions
l Getting on with Environment Business
l Emerging Issues
4. Great Lakes without a COA
l Unilaterally, Ontario could implement the following:
– Expand the Lake Simcoe protection approach to the Great Lakes;
– Get serious about combined sewer overflows;
– Report on pollutant loadings;
– Build full-cost recovery into the water taking charge;
– Unleash the potential of the Clean Water Act, 2006
– Build on successes like the cosmetic pesticides ban;
– Ban Asian carp imports, dead or alive;
– Defend wetlands;
– Curb agricultural runoff;
– Harness a broader range of ministries to delver GL restoration;
and
– Champion the Great Lakes.
6. Ontario’s Great Lakes Fishery Legacy
No Data for Atlantic Salmon
But they went Extinct
16. Waste Diversion Current Situation
l Diversion only 23%
l More tonnes going to landfill
l WDA review process and proposed
amendments in Limbo
l Diversion funded by a strange mix of
property taxes, provincial revenues and
stewards
18. Current Situation
l Diversion only 23%
l More tonnes going to landfill
l WDA review process and proposed
amendments in Limbo
l Diversion funded by a strange mix of
property taxes, provincial revenues and
stewards
19. Current Situation
l Diversion only 23%
l More tonnes going to landfill
l WDA review process and proposed
amendments in Limbo
l Diversion funded by a strange mix of
property taxes, provincial revenues and
stewards
20. Will Rogers …
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then
why can't it get us out?”
Thank You For Your Attention