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To: maceng2 who wrote (17345)	11/11/2007 6:39:22 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36917

"My post was really just one of the history of tinkering with clocks for political reasons " tell it to FDR

To: maceng2 who wrote (17345)	11/11/2007 7:17:50 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36917

Three environmental groups say the pollution of Canada's air, water and land has increased by more than 20% since 1995. Total releases of chemicals of concern increased by more than 36 million kilograms (kg) from 177,009,091 kg in 1995 to 213,414,272 kg in 2001. This increase was recorded for a group of 163 "core chemicals" that have been monitored by Environment Canada each year since 1995 through the National Pollutant Release Inventory. "The overall amount of pollution is going up," says Paul Muldoon, executive director of the Canadian Environmental Law Association, one of the groups that issued the figures on June 19. "That means the regulatory system is failing us." The association, Environmental Defence Canada, and the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy have posted the data on the web site www.pollutionwatch.org. Visitors to the PollutionWatch web site can identify polluters in their home towns by searching by postal code, access "quick lists" of the largest polluters in the country, get pollution trends 1995-2001, or create their own ranked lists of polluters by province, municipality, industrial sector, or corporation. "There's been a lot of smug high-fiving lately between government and industry pretending that they have a grip on pollution," said Dr. Rick Smith, Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada. "But the fact is that where it matters most, in communities right across Canada, pollution is getting worse. It's going to take more than wishful thinking to clean up our land, air and water." The last major federal environmental initiative in Canada came in the early 1990's when pulp and paper companies were forced to reduce their pollution discharges. Since then, both provincial and federal authorities have generally relied on voluntary pollution-reduction agreements with industry rather than binding regulations. "The large increase in pollution shows that practices need to change," said Muldoon. "The real solution to pollution is to substitute materials and change processes to stop creating these harmful substances in the first place."