On March 9, 2011, Scotland Agromart Ltd. was fined $75,000 for failing to notify the ministry of a pesticides spill.

The Internet has been an enormous boon to those needing to keep up with municipal bylaws.

A Niagara Escarpment Hearing Officer recently had to decide how many unsuccessful efforts to contact an appellant were enough. Dr. Deborah Truscott appealed a proposed municipal park development.

I can’t resist telling you that geotechnical engineer Shoshanna Saxe and web developer Micah Zarnke have released a new app that uses the GPS, camera and other features of an iPhone to improve the ease and accuracy of field logging of boreholes.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the Ministry of the Environment Order requiring an innocent victim of a spill, the City of Kawartha Lakes, to clean up oil from a domestic fuel spill.

Samples that are not properly taken, recorded, handled and analyzed are useless in court, and can lead to unjustified enforcement proceedings.

Why do we spend so much time and money on invisible contamination underground?

Manitoba government has stopped using public money to buy single use bottles of water.

The Ministry of the Environment has published an organization chart on its website.

I am intrigued by the potential of a newish gadget to improve odour monitoring, including self-monitoring by regulated entities.

For those interested, here is a copy of Trillium Power vs. The Queen (Ontario), Trillium’s Statement of Claim against the province of Ontario over Ontario’s on-again, off-again policy of encouraging offshore wind development, which is currently under a moratorium again.

The Ontario election forced by the NDP has killed three long-awaited proposed environmental laws that the Ontario Bar Association has so long requested.

I hope that environmental issues matter when you decide how to vote.

A U.S. biodiversity group has petitioned the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, alleging that Canada has failed to enforce its species at risk law by failing to list and protect polar bears as endangered species.

. Arsenic and Old Tories tells how the government stonewalled and denied and refused to do anything effective about the arsenic contamination being released by an old mine/mill on the Moira River.

Access to some federal and provincial environmental monitoring data on air, water, land and biodiversity in the oil sands is now available.

Grist has assembled the 32 most alarming climate change charts from the draft report of the US National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee.

For some exciting, detailed thinking about how greening the Greater Toronto Area could actually work, focussing on transportation, read the handbook from the MOVE! Charrette, held recently at Evergreen’s Brickworks.

The Town of Kirkland Lake pleaded guilty to one violation under the Environmental Protection Act for failing to comply with a Certificate of Approval relating to the submission of a Design and Operation Plan with a number of requirements regarding the Kirkland Lake Landfill Site.

On May 14, 2011, Environment Canada issued a notice extending a filing deadline for their federal GHG and National Pollutant Release Inventory programs until June 17, 2011.