Ontario allows companies to pollute and harm species at risk

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The Ontario government is ignoring the public's right to consultation on environmentally significant decisions as it allows companies off the hook for pollution costs and harm to at-risk species, according to a new set of environmental audits.

The auditor general’s annual report on the environment found the government has failed to recoup clean-up costs of hazardous spills and is giving blanket approval to all work proposals that would harm species at risk.

It also found the government will likely fail to meet its own waste diversion targets because businesses aren't being held to account on recycling.

Ontario allows companies to pollute and harm species at risk
 
UngulateNerd92 said:
The Ontario government is ignoring the public's right to consultation on environmentally significant decisions as it allows companies off the hook for pollution costs and harm to at-risk species, according to a new set of environmental audits.

The auditor general’s annual report on the environment found the government has failed to recoup clean-up costs of hazardous spills and is giving blanket approval to all work proposals that would harm species at risk.

It also found the government will likely fail to meet its own waste diversion targets because businesses aren't being held to account on recycling.

Ontario allows companies to pollute and harm species at risk
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Ridiculous
 
Here is another relevant article. This is absolutely apalling!

Ontario ‘automatically’ okays permits that harm at-risk species

Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment automatically approves permits for developments expected to harm at-risk species, the province’s Auditor-General says in a series of reports that also chastise the government for failing to recoup millions in costs for investigating toxic spills, and for breaking its own law on public consultations.

In an annual batch of environmental reports tabled on Monday, Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk said the province is failing to protect wildlife from developers and resource industries. The Environment Ministry, she added, is “essentially facilitating development rather than protecting species at risk.”

Since 2009, the first full year Ontario’s Endangered Species Act was in force, the annual number of approvals for projects that harm species at risk has risen from 13 to more than 800, the audit says. While the projects are approved with conditions, the government has never completely turned down a permit because of the harm it would do to an at-risk species. The number of species at risk has increased 22 per cent over the same time period.

https://www-theglobeandmail-com.cdn...approves-permits-for-developers-that-harm-at/
 
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