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MONTREAL, Sept. 16 /CNW Telbec/ - Canada's Environment Minister, John Baird, will take part in a number of events to mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol and the Meeting of the Parties. Event: Opening Ceremonies for the 19th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol Date: Monday, September 17 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Palais des Congrès de Montreal 159, St-Antoine Ouest, Room 517AB, 5th Floor Event: Minister Baird to participate in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) news conference hosted by Executive Director, Achim Steiner Date: Monday, September 17 Time: 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Location: Palais des Congrès de Montreal 159, St-Antoine Ouest, Room 516EF, 5th Floor Event: Media availability Date: Monday, September 17 Time: 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Location: Palais des Congrès de Montreal 159, St-Antoine Ouest, Room 516EF, 5th Floor Journalists and media outlets wishing to cover official events for the Montreal Protocol must be accredited by the United Nations Environment Programme(http://ozone.unep.org).
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Tuesday 19 December 2006 rci For the second time in two months, Canada's environment minister, Rona Ambrose, has abruptly cancelled a scheduled appearance at a parliamentary committee that planned to discuss a national policy on global warming. She was scheduled to attend a House of Commons committee meeting, but her office explained that the minister had a scheduling conflict. The office declined to indicate what it was. Last month, Ms. Ambrose cancelled a Senate environment committee at the last minute. Ms. Ambrose has come under criticism from environmentalists and opposition parties for announcing that Canada would withdraw from the Kyoto Accord on pollution-emitting gasses and would set its own greenhouse gas emission-control limits.
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Energy ministers for Canada, Mexico and the U.S. endorsed the first trilateral agreement on energy science and technology––a framework designed to enhance North American energy security and environmental protection. It focuses on cooperation in energy science and technology to increase energy efficiency and advance clean energy technologies across North America and the world. Energy security will ... be high on the agenda of the North American Leaders’ Summit to be held August 20-21 in Montebello, Quebec.
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Environment Canada's National Water Research Institute (NWRI) is Canada's preeminent freshwater research facility, the largest in the country with centres on the shores of the Great Lakes in Burlington, Ontario and in the heart of the Canadian Prairies in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. From these vantage points, NWRI extends its influence across Canada and beyond, leading world-class research on freshwater issues.
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Each year Environment Canada inspectors conduct from 400 to 700 inspections in British Columbia and the Yukon. The annual plan involves national priorities such as ozone depleting substances, transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or local issues related to agriculture, urban development, and industries such as pulp and paper, wood, preservation, ship repair and mining.
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Environment Canada issued a Pollution Prevention Notice to reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment from scrap cars. Mercury is a highly toxic substance that can cause serious human health and ecological effects; as a result, measures have been introduced to remove mercury from scrap cars before they are recycled; and
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