Canada's environment cleaner now than 30 yrs ago

[Durry]

Canada is cleaner and getting better than it was 30 yrs ago!!!

The Environmental State of Canada: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy


Air is cleaner
Timberlands have been preserved
Agric Soil better protected
Water... Cleaner and a World leader


CONCLUSION
Canada’s natural environment is generally growing cleaner and greener.!!!


BRING ON THE OIL SANDS!!!
TELL THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO GO TO HELL!!!



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Our review shows that despite a considerable amount of rhetoric suggesting otherwise, Canadians have much to celebrate concerning this country’s natural environment. Over recent decades, Canada’s air has become cleaner, ecosystems and timberlands have been preserved and our agricultural soil has become better protected from erosion. When it comes to water quality, at least one important indicator suggests that Canada has remained a world leader. All this has occurred while Canada’s population and economy have grown strongly. While certain regions of the country continue to face significant local environmental challenges and nationally there is always more that can be done to improve the country’s environmental performance, the data presented in this report suggest that Canada’s natural environment is generally growing cleaner and greener.

Some critics frequently excoriate Canada’s environmental record and imply that our country is becoming more polluted and less environmentally healthy. The evidence presented in this report refutes such claims. In fact, Canada’s natural environment is becoming cleaner and greener.

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[karrie]

CONCLUSION
Canada’s natural environment is generally growing cleaner and greener.!!!


BRING ON THE OIL SANDS!!!
TELL THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO GO TO HELL!!!

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I agree, bring on the oil sands, but, why would you tell the environmentalists to go to hell when their advocacy has had such great results?

 

[Cliffy]

Frontier Centre for Public Policy | DeSmogBlog

The FCPP is a climate change denier think tank paid by polluting industries to spin data to make industries look good. Their data is questionable at best.

 

[karrie]

Frontier Centre for Public Policy | DeSmogBlog

The FCPP is a climate change denier think tank paid by polluting industries to spin data to make industries look good. Their data is questionable at best.

I will admit I haven't read the full 26 page document, but, I did make a quick perusal of their endnotes to get an idea of where they were pulling their data from to come to the conclusion they reached in their short article.

Frankly it doesn't look to suspect to me.





ENDNOTES


1. Stoymenoff, A., “Canadians Worry About Global Warming: Poll,” Vancouver Observer, December 1, 2011. Available

online at http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2011/12/01/most-canadians-want-action-climatechange-

poll. Accessed January 5, 2013.

2. Green, K. and Eisen, B., “The Environmental State of Canada – 30 Years of Progress,” Frontier Centre for Public

Policy (2009). Available online at http://www.fcpp.org/images/publications/63.%20The%20Environmental%20

State%20of%20Canada.pdf.

3. Environment Canada, “Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators,” (Ottawa: Government of Canada, 2007),



4.


4. Brown, J. et al, Environmental Indicators: Sixth Edition, Fraser Institute (2004).

5. Environment Canada, “Sulphur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide and Volatile Organic Compounds Air Quality Indicators

Data,” Government of Canada (2012). Available online at http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.

asp?lang=en&n=575692A7-1#so2_1. Accessed January 5, 2013.

6. Environment Canada, “Ambient Levels of Fine Particulate Matter,” Government of Canada (2012). Available online

at http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=029BB000-1. Accessed January 5, 2013.

7. Environment Canada, “Ambient Levels of Ground-level Ozone,” Government of Canada (2012). Available online at

http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=9EBBCA88-1. Accessed January 5, 2013.

8. Lindzen, R., “Is the Global Warming Alarm Founded on Fact?” in Zedillo, R. Global Warming: Looking beyond

Kyoto, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), 21-53. Available online at http://www-eaps.mit.edu/

faculty/lindzen/L_R-Exchange.pdf. Accessed January 5, 2013.

9. Gunton, T. and Calbick, K., “The Maple Leaf in the OECD, Canada’s Environmental Performance,” David Suzuki

Foundation (2010), 1-50. Available online at http://www.davidsuzuki.org/publications/downloads/2010/OECD_

Report_Final.pdf. Accessed January 5, 2013.

10. Eisen, B., Wensveen, J. and Green, K., “The Myth of North American Carbon Reduction Laggards,” Frontier Centre

for Public Policy (2011), 1-24. Available online at http://www.fcpp.org/files/1/PS123%20Carbon%20Reduction%20

Laggardspdf.pdf. Accessed January 5, 2013.

11. Environment Canada, “Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007,” (Ottawa: Government of Canada,



2007), 20.


12. Environment Canada, “Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2008,” (2009). Available online at http://

www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=A073189E-1. Accessed January 5, 2013.

13. Environment Canada, “Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007,” (Ottawa: Government of Canada,



2007), 21.


14. Environment Canada, “Freshwater Quality in Canadian Rivers,” Government of Canada (2012). Available online at

https://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=68DE8F72-1. Accessed January 5, 2013.

15. Ibid.

16. “How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada,” The Conference Board of Canada (2009). Available online at

http://www.conferenceboard.ca/HCP/Details/Environment/water-quality-index.aspx. Accessed January 5, 2013.

17. Environment Canada, “Municipal Wastewater Treatment Data,” Government of Canada (2012). Available online at

http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=673220A5-1. Accessed January 5, 2013.

18. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, “An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food System,” Government

of Canada (2011). Available online at http://www.publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2011/agr/A38-1-1-

2010-eng.pdf. Accessed January 10, 2013.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, “Environment Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture: Agri-Environmental



Indicator Report Series – Report No. 3,” Government of Canada (2011). Available online at


http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1310586832386&lang=eng. Accessed January 10, 2013.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. Advameg Inc., “Canada – Agriculture,” Encyclopedia of the Nations (2013). Available online at

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Americas/Canada-AGRICULTURE.html. Accessed January 10, 2013.

27. Natural Resources Canada, “The State of Canada’s Forests, Annual Report 2012,” Government of Canada (2012).

Available online at http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications/download-pdf/34055. Accessed January 10, 2013.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid.

31. Vogt, K., Larson, B., Gordon, J. and Fanzeres,

 

[Corduroy]

Is this the stupidest thing ever posted on this forum?

 

[Durry]

QUOTE=karrie;1748114]I will admit I haven't read the full 26 page document, but, I did make a quick perusal of their endnotes to get an idea of where they were pulling their data from to come to the conclusion they reached in their short article.

Frankly it doesn't look to suspect to me. [/Quote]


Yep, it's a good report, almost all of the raw data came from Environment Canada!!

I'm glad I posted it here!!

 

[Trex]

Is this the stupidest thing ever posted on this forum?

No it's certainly not.
But your response could be.
Please think about it.

Back in the days of the industrial revolution in Europe killer smog's were very well known.
It was the age of coal and in the UK they called the fog "pea soupers".
And the smog steadily killed the young, the old and the frail.
And it was all coal dust and the products of unregulated incomplete combustion.

Zero environmental standards back then.
We are still cleaning up those hideously polluted old industrial toxic waste sites.

When I was a kid in Ontario Lake Erie was a huge toxic waste dump.
Nothing lived in there.
My parents told me if I stuck a toe in the water I would probably die.
And then the Love canal caught on fire.
Any industry could dump whatever it wanted into any waterway in Canada.
Now they fish for steelhead and salmon in Erie waterways.

You didn't know this?

Canada has some of the strictest environmental regulations in the world.
The entire Western world is way, way, cleaner and less polluted than it used to be back in the day.

Granted here in Canada which is a relatively new country our footprint is higher.
In other words we have paved over more land.
But our standards are far higher than they used to be a few years back.
We are reclaiming land and old damaged industrial sites on an ongoing basis.

The Western world as a whole is far cleaner these days in regards to industry.
The standards and regulations for all development are intensive, and complex if not burdensome

But yes there are a bunch more of us.

This is news?

 

[hunboldt]

Is this the stupidest thing ever posted on this forum?

That is because YOU didn't grow up directly downwind of the local Tetraethyl lead Brewery.....

DOH!

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Took this shot on the Highway 63 last week. I'd say the skies are quite green.

 

[hunboldt]

I agree, bring on the oil sands, but, why would you tell the environmentalists to go to hell when their advocacy has had such great results?

Obviously the Hel peninsula needs an enviormental clean up. .....

Hel Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

all that WW2 stuff lying around..

 

[captain morgan]

Took this shot on the Highway 63 last week. I'd say the skies are quite green.

That is sooo cool....

The Northern Lights always make me stand in awe.... Then again, those are the Northern Lights, right and not Suzuki claiming that the oil patch is responsible for the radio-active fallout in the sky?

 

[L Gilbert]

Took this shot on the Highway 63 last week. I'd say the skies are quite green.

Alien attack!

You should see the sun hitting pollen clouds when wind hits the larch and deciduous trees around here. You see glowing, greenish yellow clouds floating down the sides of hills.

The countryside around Trail, BC then:

Now:

and it's getting greener. The river's also got a lot less crap in it, too.

 

[BaalsTears]

I love Canada. It's been a long time since I was in Sudbury, Ontario. Is it still an environmental basket case?