This 2007/2008 ECO annual report was submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on Oct 21, 2008. You can download the full report and see all related communications materials here. Click here to read other ECO Reports to the Legislature.

Contents 1 Getting to K(No)w 1.1 Part 1 – The Environmental Bill of Rights 1.2 Part 2 – Significant Issues 1.3 Part 3 – Ministry Environmental Decisions 1.4 Part 4 – Applications for Review and Investigation 1.5 Part 8 – Developing Issues 1.6 Recommendations

Getting to K(No)w

• Commissioner’s Message: Getting to K(no)w

Part 1 – The Environmental Bill of Rights

• Introduction to 2007/08 Annual Report

Part 2 – Significant Issues

• Significant Issues
• Ontario’s Action Plan on Climate Change: Deserving of Credit?
• Environmental Assessment: A Vision Lost
  • Evolution of the Environmental Assessment Act since 1976
  • EA Codes of Practice
  • Environmental Assessment Act 1996-2006
  • Environmental Assessment - Where are we now
  • Screening Process for Waste Projects under the Environmental Assessment Act
  • Casting a new vision for Ontario's Environmental Assessment Act
• Drought in Ontario? Groundwater and Surface Water Impacts and Response
• Air Quality Monitoring and Reporting in Ontario – Fostering a False Sense of Security
• The Greening of the Ontario Government
• Protected Areas Planning: Managing for Ecological Integrity?
• Doing Less with Less: Rebuilding MOE and MNR – A Glimmer of Hope
• Biodiversity in Crisis
• Land Acquisition Program Update

Part 3 – Ministry Environmental Decisions

• Ministry Environmental Decisions
• Canada – Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem
• MOE’s Financial Plans Regulation for Municipal Drinking Water Systems
• The Water Taking Charge Regulation
• Environmental Penalty Regulations
• Amendments to Regulation 903, R.R.O. 1990 (Wells Regulation)
• Fisheries Protocols Undermined by Crippling Cutbacks
• Legislative Brownfield Reform
• Developing an Odour Policy Framework
• Burning of Used Oil in Space Heaters is Banned in Southern Ontario
• Municipal Hazardous or Special Waste (MHSW) Program Plan
• Ministry of Transportation Environmental Standards Project
• Regulatory Modernization Act, 2007
• More decisions of interest

Part 4 – Applications for Review and Investigation

• Applications for Review and Investigation
• Permitting Water Takings by Commercial Water Bottlers
• Land Use Planning and Protecting Groundwater Resources
• Dofasco KOBM Meltshop
• Reforming the Mining Act
• More applications of interest

Part 8 – Developing Issues

• Developing Issues
• Roads – Pathways for Humans, Barriers for Functioning Ecosystems
• Wildlife Management: Ontario’s Mammalian Predators

Recommendations

• 2007/08 Recommendations