Category Archives: Smog

Environment Minister Tony Clement put his best smudged face on a dirty air policy yesterday. And dirty it is – potentially a lot dirtier than what we have.

Clement’s spin on his policy was that it was “tough new actions” that will “strengthen an already aggressive campaign to improve air quality in Ontario.”

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This is a summary of Energy Probe’s concerns over the Ontario Emission Reduction Trading (ERT) program announced in January. The government’s ERT program fails to meet the objectives of its November 1997 White Paper on electricity reform and should be substantially revised to achieve environmental improvement.

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Canada’s major oil refineries are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rid themselves of the well-deserved reputation of producing North America’s dirtiest gasoline.

Canadian lawmakers have already given refiners a Jan. 1, 2005, deadline to lower sulphur content by 97%.

The Irving Oil Co. has already achieved part of that requirement with a $1-billion retrofit of its New Brunswick refinery.

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John Hutchinson, Senior Policy Advisor
Air Policy and Climate Change
4th Floor, 135 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1P5

re. Comments on EBR Registry Number RA01E00020

Dear Sir,

Energy Probe has reviewed the above noted registry and makes the following comments.

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Fighting for air: Andrea Long and her daughter Callan both suffer from asthma and worry about the quality of air in Toronto.
Steve Russell/Toronto Star

The truth about the air we breathe in Ontario is about to be revealed.

And it’s going to be ugly.

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  Presentation to Air and Waste Management Association Canadian Clean Air Policy ConferenceThe Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa

Air emission management is a lot like combining the children’s games of hide and seek with snakes and ladders. In moving through the steps of the game, we should aim to climb up the most ladders and slide down the fewest snakes. A principal challenge is that the ladders and snakes can be obscured or disguised. In air emission control policy ladders are often mistaken for snakes and there are some nasty snakes disguised as ladders.

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