Bill 132 is proposing significant and sweeping changes to how corporations are held to account for the damages that they cause to the environment.
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I am concerned by broad sweeping Bill 132 and its impact on many environmental laws and regulations designed to protect the environment, safeguard public health, manage wildlife and public lands, and regulate resource extraction throughout the province.
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I am not in favour of the changes being contemplated. You refer to your changes as "streamlining" but you are actually eliminating those organizations which have a mandate to safe guard our environment, waters, habitats, wild life, air and peoples.
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ERO #019-0774 Bill 132, Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019
"Power afforded Minister is excessive and subjective"
By AWARE Simcoe: Social and Environmental Solutions Inc.
November 24, 2019
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To: Mr. Yurek,
Ontario Minister of Environtnent
I have been an Ontario citizen since 1979. It was with great concern that I learned about your goverment’s proposed changes to our province’s environmental protection legislation via your proposed Bill 132.
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As an Ontario citizen, I oppose this bill. Bill 132 will reduce the crucial financial implications for companies to be responsible for their waste, and will allow companies to pollute our important fresh water without fear of financial hardship.
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I would like to express that I do not support the loosening of penalties for causing environmental damage.
This is in reference to schedule 9 of this act, the rewrite of section 182.1 of the Environmental Protection Act.
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I believe the endangering of our water systems could be irreparable. I personally visited a local water station in my region, an the information i learned there was that we had over 100 wells.
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Please reconsider the impact this bill would have on the future residents of Ontario. While it may benefit business in the short term, the long term impact of possible pollution of our waters and loss of natural areas is devastating. We must protect our water and our land.
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The Niagara Water Protection Alliance (NWPA) was formed to protect the water in an aquifer that supplies potable water to wells in southern Niagara.
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-People should have to get permission from the ministry before removing trees from crown forests (for any purpose, including creating roadways).
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Members of Sustainable Trent, a student levy group at Trent University, are concerned about Bill 132, Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019 due to changes to environmental legislation and a short consultation period of only 30 days.
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Members of Sustainable Trent, a student levy group at Trent University, are concerned about Bill 132, Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019 due to changes to environmental legislation and a short consultation period of only 30 days.
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As a nature-lover with a pollinator-friendly wildflower garden I am very aware of the importance of maintaining and strengthening the ban on neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides that attack pollinators.
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Wetlands are not only nice for nature-lovers and environmental scientists. They play an important role in flood control and water filtration.
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I have recently been made aware of this bill, and I see many very troubling issues in this bill which will weaken water protections and increase exposure to environmental risks.
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