Thursday 16 February 2012

Should I Drink This Minister Bradley?



Environment Minister Jim Bradley has the Clean Water Act (CWA) 2006, the Ontario Resources Act (OWRA) and now the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act 2010, all at his disposal to protect our lakes and safeguard our fresh water supply, and even the habitats for the fishies. His government under the helm of Premier Dalton McGuinty has promised a bright new action plan specifically designed to protect our lakes titled the 'Great Lakes Protection Act (GLPA) by 2015 but that's only a promise and in the meantime what happens to our lakes is anybody's guess. It is turning out to be more complicated than a Shakespeare stage performance with all these 'acts'. Sadly Premier McGuinty nor his Environment Minister, in this production it is the 'rock' Jim Bradley, have any real desire to enforce any of these wonderfully worded documents. Shakespeare at least had devoted followers. READ MORE.  




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Sunday 5 February 2012

Ministry of Environment Order Ignored

An order issued by the Ministry of the Environment in February 2011 has been ignored by a business in St.Catharines, Ontario. A smash repair operator, Sam Demita who owns Sun Collision on Merritt Street had been ordered by MOE investigators to move damaged vehicles from his property line that abuts a public park and a neighbourhood. This order was issued so as to prevent the leaching of dangerous chemicals into the environment and a stormwater drainage system. The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario made a statement in his Annual Report Supplement 2010/2011, supporting the concern of leaching break fluid, antifreeze, and motor oil which may pollute water sources with ethylene glycol, heavy metals and petroleum distillates.

Photographs taken through intervals of several months apart during 2011 and into January 2012 show damaged vehicles remain at the property line. Sam Demita of Sun Collision has no desire to move the damaged vehicles, obey the instructions of the MOE, (who obviously have not monitored the property even though Sam Demita of Sun Collision had been found in an earlier investigation by MOE to have intentionally breached the EPA and Ontario Regulation #347 by burying illegal waste material such as hundreds of tonnes of asphalt) or care for the stormwater drainage system or a public park and neighbourhood. The City of St.Catharines has serious questions to answer in this situation revolving around the property where Sun Collision has been established. A full article is to be published on mayorgate.blogspot.com on the investigation that was refused and potential ramifications in 2012.

Now this issue rests is in the hands of the Minister for the Environment Jim Bradley. What will the minister do? How much abuse of our environmental legislation can be ignored by the McGuinty government? When will the MOE act? It is our future and in this case possibly our present, as with our water supply, that is at stake. What are you going to do Minister Jim Bradley? Read More

The MOE stated in their report dated February 16 2011 that all damaged vehicles were to be moved from the property line. Sam Demita owner of Sun Collision did not move the vehicles through the whole of 2011 and photographs now in January of 2012 still show damaged vehicles at the property line. Sam Demita's arrogance at ignoring the MOE order is clear, any potentially dangerous chemicals have had at least a year to slowly leach into the soil. Where is the MOE monitoring?



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Minister for Municipal Affairs Wynne Called to Act

Ministry for Municipal Affairs and Housing administers the Ontario Building Code Act and all its regulations. The Building Official's Code of Conduct is an integral part of that act put in place to ensure appropriate standards of behaviour, enforcement actions, honesty and integrity among building officials. It is not hard to imagine the amount of power building inspectors can wield. A building inspector can prolong work on large and small projects adding cost and frustration. An unscrupulous inspector can turn a homeowner's life into a nightmare with stress. For that reason the Code of Conduct aims to prevent practices which may constitute an abuse of power, including unethical or illegal practices, by building officials in the exercise of their power or the performance of their duties under the Ontario Building Code Act and Regulations and other applicable legislation. Read More