CATCH News – April 11, 2012 Water protection law threatened The city of Hamilton was charged and convicted under the Fisheries Act of polluting a local creek and Hamilton Harbour with toxic chemicals, and was forced to pay a record fine a decade ago and spend millions to fix the problematic leaking landfills. Now the federal government is poised to drastically weaken that legislation apparently to speed approval of a pipeline across British Columbia that would carry Alberta tar sands bitumen to foreign refineries. The widely reported planned changes to the Fisheries Act referred to in the recent federal budget could also prevent prosecution of parties responsible for other pollutants entering local waterways including the chemical contamination running off Hamilton’s airport. Whether charges should be laid on the latter contamination is a specific question now before the federal auditor general as a result of a ...
A call for a paradigm shift toward nature in Hamilton Ontario