When you exempt projects…

When you exempt projects that could have an environmental impact, from environmental assessment, that is when projects that will cause damage get the go-ahead, and environmental damage is done that can't be reversed. The cumulative effect of multiple projects going ahead with no environmental assessment is devastating to Ontario and its people.

Transportation has many areas of fallout, from the damage done to wildlife and water when natural habitat is destroyed, to noise implications, to the increased air pollution in its corridor.

No project should be exempt from environmental assessment. If there is little to no impact that will come from it, then it has nothing to fear. There is usually a better way to proceed with various types of projects that are used to being rammed through the easiest way, which, in the long run for many, is also the most damaging way. We must change the way we proceed in regards to our impact on our environment. We must proceed carefully and with full consideration of future effects. Only then can we give our children a world with fewer regrets. We have regrets and troubles enough already from projects done without properly considered environmental assessment. Let's not compound them.