Comment
The proposal in Schedule 9 of Bill 132 to eliminate daily fines and cap total fines is unacceptable because it will mean industries can get away with a one time fee of $200,000 per contravention instead of $100,000 per day. So theoretically, a company that dumps toxic waste or emits toxic pollution into the air every day of the year will pay only $200,000 instead of $36.5 million for a whole year!
While I welcome the proposed ability under Bill 132 for the Ontario Environment Ministry to issue fines for violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Pesticides Act, polluters under these acts will be liable for fines of only up to $100,000 per contravention.
Protect our clean drinking water!
This bill will make it harder to hit the 2030 target of a 30 per cent reduction from 2005 greenhouse gas emissions, because polluters will be able to just pay money and keep polluting.
Please don't make it easier and cheaper for polluters. We can't go back to the summers of dozens of smog days when we had to keep the kids inside.
Submitted November 2, 2019 9:32 AM
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Holding polluters accountable by expanding the use of administrative monetary penalties for environmental contraventions
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