Tag: Colin Isaacs
Policy POV: Green plan gone but not forgotten
The contrast between the environmental policies of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by the late Brian Mulroney, and the Conservative Party of...
Exploring alternative systems and cleantech for wastewater treatment
Many readers of Environment Journal will be familiar with the concept of distributed power generation, defined somewhat loosely as the usually small-scale generation of...
Policy POV: Ontario’s electrification and energy transition panel report
The final report of Ontario's Electrification and Energy Transition Panel was released on January 19, 2024. The report is expected to help achieve collaborative and...
Policy POV: Rights pertaining to environmentally significant proposals
The new year is a suitable time for environmental practitioners to take stock of new or revised regulations, rules and recent developments impacting the...
Policy POV: Nature based solutions versus ecological disasters
Observers of the COP28 climate negotiations, indeed of any recent discussion about greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, will have heard numerous references to nature based...
ONEIA’s Environment Industry Day focuses on building smarter and faster
Yesterday the Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA) hosted its annual Environment Industry Day at Queen’s Park. Environment and cleantech leaders were at the Legislature...
Policy POV: Resolving the PFAS problem
The Ontario Environment Industry Association became one of the first Canadian industry groups to hold a conference on the topic when it held a...
Policy POV: Industrial Pollution Penalties on the Rise?
A recent study found that in many parts of the City of Toronto drivers found it cheaper to park illegally and to pay the...
Policy POV: Plastic pollution hotspots and circular solutions
When Ontario's Blue Box household recycling initiative was launched in the 1980s it was lauded as being at least one of the major answers...
Policy POV: How to validate your environmental claims and avoid greenwashing
The terms “greenwash” and “greenwashing” were reportedly first used by American ecologist Jay Westerveld in the mid-1980s to describe the practice of making invalid...