EH! 2018 Municipal Candidates Survey
To ensure that environmental issues are addressed in the
2018 Haliburton County municipal elections
we have sent a questionnaire to all candidates.
Each week a different question will appear in County Life.
The questionnaire for the candidates can be downloaded below.
To read the questions (and answers after September 22) go here.
2018 Haliburton County municipal elections
we have sent a questionnaire to all candidates.
Each week a different question will appear in County Life.
- Transportation
- Climate Change (Adaptation)
- Climate Change (Mitigation)
- Food Security
- Wetlands
- Species at Risk
- Shorelines
- Lake Health
The questionnaire for the candidates can be downloaded below.
To read the questions (and answers after September 22) go here.
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The Environmental Consequences
of the Ontario Election
with permission of creator
Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change quietly renamed, drops 'Climate Change' adds 'Conservation and Parks'
New Conservative govt turns Ontario from climate change leader to fossil fuel paradise
http://redgreenandblue.org/2018/07/26/new-conservative-govt-turns-ontario-climate-change-leader-fossil-fuel-paradise/
...."He immediately killed Ontario’s participation in carbon trading and chaos has ensued. The federal government under Trudeau is implementing a carbon tax on every province that doesn’t have a price on carbon already, so Ontario is going to have a different system almost from the start.
Ford has joined with another backward looking province, Saskatchewan, in a legal challenge which all legal analysts say is doomed to fail.
Businesses have just achieved compliance with the old cap-and-trade system, shelling out $12 billion in carbon credits. Now, they will have to tear that up, only to be hit again by yet another carbon tax system. Businesses like stability, not regulatory churn and this flip-flopping on carbon policy is bad for business.
Ford immediately cancelled a wind farm in a rural area near Toronto that’s filled with Ontario millionaires’ retirement residences. The cancellation is expected to run up nearly $100 million in cancellation and legal fees, after the dust has settled on the matter.
As if that weren’t enough, Ford and his government have announced that they are cancelling another 757 renewables contracts in Ontario. That means more cancellation fees, more lawsuits and more legal fees. Just to put icing on the cake, they extended the aging Pickering nuclear plant’s life an expensive four more years because of 3,500 conservative trending jobs.
....Ford has eliminated rebates to home owners for efficiency retrofits. So much for smart thermostats reducing energy consumption in Ontario homes.
More regressive moves are undoubtedly in the works.
Ford and his suburban supporters hate any transit options which don’t favor cars streaming into the city unhindered. This includes light rail and transit construction projects. He promises subways, but what he means is no transit. Provincial support for bike lanes has undoubtedly disappeared.
Doug Ford has taken Ontario’s reasonable set of environmental policies and a transformation that was positive overall and is regressing it rapidly, ignorantly and with likely much more expensive overall results."
New Conservative govt turns Ontario from climate change leader to fossil fuel paradise
http://redgreenandblue.org/2018/07/26/new-conservative-govt-turns-ontario-climate-change-leader-fossil-fuel-paradise/
...."He immediately killed Ontario’s participation in carbon trading and chaos has ensued. The federal government under Trudeau is implementing a carbon tax on every province that doesn’t have a price on carbon already, so Ontario is going to have a different system almost from the start.
Ford has joined with another backward looking province, Saskatchewan, in a legal challenge which all legal analysts say is doomed to fail.
Businesses have just achieved compliance with the old cap-and-trade system, shelling out $12 billion in carbon credits. Now, they will have to tear that up, only to be hit again by yet another carbon tax system. Businesses like stability, not regulatory churn and this flip-flopping on carbon policy is bad for business.
Ford immediately cancelled a wind farm in a rural area near Toronto that’s filled with Ontario millionaires’ retirement residences. The cancellation is expected to run up nearly $100 million in cancellation and legal fees, after the dust has settled on the matter.
As if that weren’t enough, Ford and his government have announced that they are cancelling another 757 renewables contracts in Ontario. That means more cancellation fees, more lawsuits and more legal fees. Just to put icing on the cake, they extended the aging Pickering nuclear plant’s life an expensive four more years because of 3,500 conservative trending jobs.
....Ford has eliminated rebates to home owners for efficiency retrofits. So much for smart thermostats reducing energy consumption in Ontario homes.
More regressive moves are undoubtedly in the works.
Ford and his suburban supporters hate any transit options which don’t favor cars streaming into the city unhindered. This includes light rail and transit construction projects. He promises subways, but what he means is no transit. Provincial support for bike lanes has undoubtedly disappeared.
Doug Ford has taken Ontario’s reasonable set of environmental policies and a transformation that was positive overall and is regressing it rapidly, ignorantly and with likely much more expensive overall results."
Plastic Pollution
How the Oil Industry is Pushing Plastic
(big infographic)
How the Oil Industry is Pushing Plastic
(big infographic)
What you can do
- Choose to reuse when it comes to shopping bags and bottled water. Cloth bags and metal or glass reusable bottles are available locally at great prices.
- Refuse single-serving packaging, excess packaging, straws and other "disposable" plastics. Carry reusable utensils in your purse, backpack or car to use at bbq's, potlucks or take-out restaurants.
- Reduce everyday plastics such as sandwich bags and juice cartons by replacing them with a reusable lunch bag/box that includes a thermos.
- Bring your to-go mug with you to the coffee shop, smoothie shop or restaurants that let you use them, which is a great way to reduce lids, plastic cups and/or plastic-lined cups.
- Go digital! No need for plastic cds, dvds and jewel cases when you can buy your music and videos online.
- Seek out alternatives to the plastic items that you rely on.
- Recycle. If you must use plastic, try to choose #1 (PETE) or #2 (HDPE), which are the most commonly recycled plastics. Avoid plastic bags and polystyrene foam as both typically have very low recycling rates.
- Volunteer at a beach cleanup.
- Support plastic bag bans, polystyrene foam bans and bottle recycling bills.
- Spread the word. Talk to your family and friends about why it is important to reduce plastic in our lives and the nasty impacts of plastic pollution.
Enviro-CafésEH! hosts EnviroCafés on the Second Tuesday of the month alternating between a Minden and Haliburton location.
The Next EnviroCafé September 11, 7:30 Haliburton United Church Ray Letheren of Bayfield Blue will tell us how Bayfield Ontario became the first community in North America to be declared "Plastic Fee". 
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Special SpeakersEH! invites speakers to address
the AGM as well as a summer event. Recent speakers have included Elizabeth May, Maude Barlow, Norman Yan and Peter Schliefenbaum. This summer's speaker was
Brian Kelly Sustainability Manager for Durham Region For coverage of his talk see http://www.mindentimes.ca/speaker-recommends-climate-adaptation-plan?id=875 Planet Haliburton
Planet Haliburton is a bimonthly program on CANOE FM, our local community radio station, co-hosted by Greg Roe and Terry Moore, Vice president of EH!. Greg and Terry cover topics of environmental importance with relevance to the Haliburton Highlands. The program takes an interview format.
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