EC238 Lecture 11: lesson11
Document Summary
Unlike dioxins and furans in pulp and paper production, not all toxic compounds found on the domestic substance list (dsl) are so damaging to health and the environment that they need to be banned. Instead these substances require efforts to: 1) reduce their production; 2) ensure proper disposal is used; and 3) ensure toxic waste sites are identified and remediated. This sort of policy has the potential to provide economic incentives to reduce waste discharge. Next policies in canada dealing with the cleanup of toxic waste sites are discussed. As you read through this section, you will notice that canada has lacked an explicit program to deal with this problem. Ministers of the environment (ccme) oversaw the national contaminated sites. Remediation program which addressed 45 contaminated sites across canada, but. The 2002 report of the commissioner of the environment and sustainable. Development concluded that the federal government had failed to address federal contaminated sites adequately.
