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Environment committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee That's right.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the committee for inviting CELA to speak to you today about Bill C-22, the energy safety and security act. CELA is a 44-year-old national ENGO, and when we're looking at conventional sources of energy, the areas we're focusing on
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Natural Resources committee The concern there is that the amount is insufficient. I have a slightly different view in that I agree there should be an absolute liability amount in both sectors. What I also think is that there should be negligence beyond the absolute liability amount in both sectors, but I do
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Natural Resources committee On the nuclear side I know there are. On the oil and gas side, Mr. Amos might be more familiar. The difference—
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Natural Resources committee Yes, you can deal with a few months or a few weeks with people whose livelihood is on the land or tourist operators or others who might be impacted, but the issue is, if they're embroiled in longer claims periods, they could well eventually obtain their funds but they may be out
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Natural Resources committee The points I would add would be the ones I made about making sure the principles are consistent between the oil and gas side and the nuclear side of the bill. There's a huge inconsistency in the approach right now, where polluter pays is not in the purpose statement of the nuclea
June 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for inviting CELA to appear before you today. As I think many of you know, the Canadian Environmental Law Association is a 43-year-old, not-for-profit environmental organization, formed to use law to advance environmental protection
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee The potential for diverting the materials for reuse and recycling and for depollution is in the hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year. Our research did divide that up across the types of materials. I won't belabour you with the statistics right now, but I will just say that w
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee No, what I was trying to communicate is that it is not a black and white question. There are many kinds of energy from waste that we do support. What we don't support is incineration of domestic garbage. Some of the technologies that my friends have been describing are things we
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee I don't have an update for you on those specific regulations. Earlier you were asking about the preparedness of domestic landfill and waste programs to take the CFL light bulbs. I can speak specifically to the Ontario situation. There is a combination of take-back programs thro
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee We had quite a few recommendations in the report. We will provide it. We did specifically talk about recommending a law similar to the European Union end-of-life vehicle directive. In addition, as Fe mentioned, it's a big part of the approach the federal government can take unde
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee We did look at the other jurisdictions, specifically at the European Union and Japan, both of which are also big vehicle manufacturing jurisdictions. In general, we found that most countries that have large vehicle manufacturing industries do have legislation specifically governi
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee I don't know if I'd be able to answer specific questions. We definitely did note in the end-of-vehicle report that the CCME had taken a number of steps, including that one and including a specific national code. We can see what your questions are and we'll see if we have the leve
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan
Environment committee We used to say “cradle to grave”, but we all decided that cradle to cradle was a better idea, because we don't want to just landfill the material. We actually want to put it back into the next vehicle down the road.
June 10th, 2014Committee meeting
Theresa McClenaghan