I am a concerned citizen…

I am a concerned citizen writing to weigh in on this matter. Particularly to the 2nd question for discussion.

2. Should Ontario continue to require reporting of fuel distribution/supply reporting?

I would like the Government of Ontario to continue to require companies to report on emissions resulting from the consumption of the fuels they supply or distribute.

A governmental program that has industry report on the larger picture and impact of their operations, gives that information and awareness to those companies and can inform their operations in the present.
Companies need to be encouraged and ultimately required to take into consideration their larger impact.

It is hugely problematic when companies don't have to take responsibility for the greater impacts of their industries. The impact of a company's operations is far greater than simply direct emissions.

A company is able to benefit financially from their dealings, but then are largely exempt from responsibilities for the ensuing environmental degradation, or impacts that these industries have and may in the future have.

Historically, oil spills that have happened or other problems that have arisen from industries such as fracking, even when a company is ordered to pay for the cleanup, what they are able to pay really never has covered the entire cost. Because often, the impact is greater than a cost could cover. It is lives, animal lives, quality of life for humans, ecosystems, ocean systems that are impacted. We haven't even developed ways to fully restore some of those impacts. Those things don't even exist yet.

Ultimately the impacts, as things are now, will be borne later down the road by government and by people living in those communities and in the bigger picture of Canada and the Earth in general.

We are in an environmental crisis time. And leaving this program intact, is one of the mechanisms that can bring the bigger picture of carbon emissions and their origins, to companies and to the citizens of Ontario. It brings valuable information and understandings. And goes to encourage companies to take greater responsibility in the larger range of their emissions impact.

We need to be looking for more and more ways that we can steer everyday operations, towards environmental responsibility. Carbon taxes, that funnel money into rehabilitation research.

Encouraging companies to take pride in including this into their mandates.
Encouraging companies to take a larger vision of their impact and their responsibilities in larger society, as being driven by more than just sales, as being driven also by their environmental impact. And how can they do that, without that information that is gathered from that reporting.

Ultimately we should be looking for ways for these kinds of considerations to be an intrinsic part of how companies are steering their operations.

Please consider my concerns,
And continue to require reporting of fuel distribution/supply reporting.

Thank you for the opportunity to express my concerns.