Making Our Voices Heard to Protect Environmental Programming at the City of Toronto
In July, 2011 the City of Toronto began consideration of a consultant's report that identified several "opportunties" for budget reductions. On the list was the elimination of the Toronto Environment Office, the City equivalent of a Ministry of the Environment. This put at risk environmental programming such as Community Environment Days, waste diversion programs, urban agricultural programs, tree planting and the Live Green program among others.
Speaking Out Against Pickering B
In the fall of 2008, Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg MES PhD presented a deputation on behalf of the Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) on the proposed life extension of Pickering B nuclear reactor.
Tritium and its Risk to Our Drinking Water
In light of the plans for nuclear power expansion in Ontario and elsewhere, many millions of our tax dollars are to be spent to renew the nuclear industry with very little attention to the impacts of ionizing radiation, namely tritium (and other radionuclides) affecting the health of millions of citizens and the ecosystem.
- WHEN's deputation to the Ontario Drinking Water Advisory Council (ODWAC) on Tritium, March 2008.
Partnership for Pesticide By-laws
The Premier and the Minister of the Environment are to be congratulated for heeding the call of health and environmental organizations. Pesticides are poisonous and children right across the province will be better protected thanks to this announcement.
- from the Registered Nurses of Ontario media release, March 4, 2009
Community Right-to-Know
Victory! On Wednesday, December, 3, 2008, City of Toronto Councillors voted 33-3 in favour of adopting the Community Right-to-Know Bylaw which came into effect on January 1, 2010.
