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Prudent governance of Canada’s groundwater resources is required in the face of numerous challenges. Threats to … groundwater include rapid urbanization, recharge rates of aquifers in a changing climate, agricultural intensification and … increased contamination, among others. However, overall, Canada has yet to experience large-scale over-exploitation of …
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Much of Canada lags international leaders in adopting management systems for assuring safe drinking water. Despite some … clear progress in individual provinces, Canada, and small communities in particular, need a system that better promotes and … Canada, public drinking water poses a negligible health risk. But in the wake of a series of management failures with severe …
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of sound environmental decision making, Environment Canada and other government agencies have jointly participated in the …
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plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … variation (differences in marginal costs of removal) across emission regions. Preliminary analysis using Environment Canada … of Canada based on these cost functions. …
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designed in a way that would balance the impacts on the economy with improvements in environmental quality. Environment Canada …
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cost functions for VOCs in Canada. Abatement cost functions are mathematical representations of discrete emission reduction …
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would be major problems at least for ten years. Most of these problems are observed in Atlantic Canada and few watersheds in … in Canada), the analysis presented in this study indicated that there must be substantially more reductions to ensure the …
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Charging for the life cycle cost of waste management is contentious. The recent example of some retailers charging “eco-fees” in Ontario, with respect to sales of household products such as detergent, batteries and fluorescent light bulbs, is a case in point. However, the Ontario program for...
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on the experience of two long-standing co-operative agreements in this area: the Canada-United States Air Quality …
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For much of the industrialized world, pollution from manufacturing has been falling despite increased output. In this paper, we provide the first estimates of the extent to which environmental regulations have contributed to this “clean-up” of manufacturing by causing: (i) the adoption of...
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