Ditching Nature: Ontario’s Superhighway Secrets
Investigating the costs of paving over Ontario’s last remaining urban greenspaces
Posts in category Environment
Nonstick chemicals come unstuck: The Lancet Feb 17 2024
Lancet World Report Feb 17 2024 US PFAS Controls
Trashing nature for highway land speculation: Toronto Star Aug 28 2023
Ontario keeping costs of Highway 413 hidden from public Transport ministry estimates of how much it will cost taxpayers, and who will benefit, from building Highway 413 is being kept …
Nature vs. Ontario’s Superhighway Plan
Highway 413 environmental impact studies have cost more than $35 million — but gaps mean Ford government will likely have to spend millions more The impact studies originally began under …
PFAS: Time for medical testing?
US Government Agencies consider PFAS Nov 1, 2022
Energy vs Environment: Canada’s Dilemma
Oct 2022 Moving Mountains Report on Business Magazine
Canada’s retreat from nuclear disarmament
Canada once led the fight for a world without nukes. What happened?
Trashing nature for e-commerce and big-box stores
Will Highway 413 actually cut 30 minutes from your commute? A Ministry of Transportation analysis obtained by the Star suggests it won’t “The real winners will be the owners of …
“This is not a bailout”: Doug Ford’s multi-billion toll-road gift. Toronto Star Feb 22 2022
Why didn’t Ford pursue the $1-billion congestion penalty from 407 ETR? Penalty was forgiven due to pandemic-related drop in traffic, but new data shows traffic levels rebounded in late 2020, …
Is Ontario’s “traffic crisis” contrived? (Toronto Star, Nov 26 2021)
Documents reveal Ford government opted not to pursue $1-billion penalty from 407 Express Toll Route By Paul Webster Special to the Star Fri., Nov. 26, 2021 The Ford government opted against …