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Agave Production in Jalisco
Submission ID: SEM-23-003
The Submitter asserts that agave production, as a resource-intensive industry, results in extensive land-use change and deforestation in Jalisco, which in turn contributes to desertification in already semi-arid areas of the state, major landslides and flooding in some municipalities, and aquifer depletion.
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Grand-Brûlé—Saint Sauveur Supply Line
Submission ID: SEM-18-005
December 7, 2018
The Citizen Advisory Committee of Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard (Comité aviseur de citoyens de Saint-Adolphe d’Howard) and a group of residents assert that the province of Quebec is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to a power supply line project that will...
Chileno Bay Club
Submission ID: SEM-18-004
November 9, 2018
The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law with respect to the Chileno Bay Club tourism development located in the municipality of Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. The submitter maintains that the project developer went beyond the authorized scope of...
Hydraulic Fracturing in Nuevo Leon
Submission ID: SEM-18-003
October 3, 2018
The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law applicable to hydraulic fracturing in the municipality of Los Ramones in the State of Nuevo Leon,...
Metrobús Reforma
Submission ID: SEM-18-002
February 2, 2018
Anyone may follow the status of and obtain information about any Submission on Enforcement Matters by consulting this Registry of Submissions. The CEC also maintains a compliance tracker to provide the public with information about SEM process...
Transboundary Agricultural Burning
Submission ID: SEM-18-001
January 10, 2018
On 10 January 2018, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) received a submission from a resident of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation in the United States along the US (Arizona)/Mexican border, asserting that her village is being impacted by “unannounced episodes...
Alberta Tailings Ponds II
Submission ID: SEM-17-001
June 26, 2017
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Monterrey VI Aqueduct
Submission ID: SEM-16-002
July 11, 2016
Submission SEM-16-002 asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to the Monterrey VI Aqueduct project. The Submitter, a group in Mexico which has requested confidentiality, asserts that the transfer of water by pipeline from the Panuco River in the...
Agricultural Waste Burning in Sonora
Submission ID: SEM-16-001
January 22, 2016
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Municipal Wastewater Drop Shafts
Submission ID: SEM-15-003
November 3, 2015
Submission SEM-15-003 (Municipal Wastewater Drop Shafts) asserts that the United States is failing to effectively enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regarding sewer drop shafts used to convey municipal wastewater. Submission SEM-15-003 (Municipal Wastewater Drop Shafts)...
Management of Analog TV Waste
Submission ID: SEM-15-002
August 24, 2015
Submission SEM-15-002 (Management of Analog TV Waste) was filed by several individuals and NGOs in Mexico, asserting that while millions of TV sets are being discarded as a result of the so-called "analog blackout" (the conversion from analog to digital TV broadcasting), a management plan...
La Primavera Forest
Submission ID: SEM-15-001
July 20, 2015
Submission SEM-15-001 (La Primavera Forest) was filed by two individuals in Mexico, asserting that the Santa Anita Hills housing development project is causing the destruction of a netleaf oak forest, and questioning the legality of the change in land use from forest to urban area and the...
Refinery Releases in Shreveport, Louisiana
Submission ID: SEM-13-003
July 9, 2013
The Submitter asserts that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to enforce the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) and its amendments. In particular, the Submitter asserts that the US failed to enforce 42 USC § 7401 (c), by not issuing “an Administrative Order mandating that...
Louisiana Refinery Releases
Submission ID: SEM-13-002
July 3, 2013
The Submitter asserts that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to use the Clean Air Act (CAA) to address "environmental hazards discovered in the agency's July 2012 Risk Management Plan (RMP) inspection of the ExxonMobil Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (EMBRRF)." The...
Tourism Development in the Gulf of California
Submission ID: SEM-13-001
April 11, 2013
According to the submission, "the Mexican government is authorizing various construction projects and tourist real estate operations in ecologically sensitive areas." The Submitters assert that the development of four large tourist resorts in the Gulf of California are causing significant impact...
St. Lawrence River Wind Farms
Submission ID: SEM-12-002
December 14, 2012
The Submitters assert that Canada and Quebec are failing to effectively enforce various environmental laws concerning migratory birds, endangered species, and local municipalities. The Submitters object to the establishment of wind farms in migratory bird corridors, particularly in the area of...
BC Salmon Farms
Submission ID: SEM-12-001
February 10, 2012
The Submitters assert that Canada is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law and in particular, provisions of the federal Fisheries Act (the "Act"). Section 35 of the Act prohibits “any work or undertaking that results in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction...
Protection of Polar Bears
Submission ID: SEM-11-003
December 5, 2011
The Submitter asserts that Canada is failing to effectively enforce Canada's Species at Risk Act (the “Act” or “SARA”) by failing to list the polar bear in a timely manner as a threatened or endangered species, “thus denying the bear any substantive legal protections under...
Sumidero Canyon II
Submission ID: SEM-11-002
November 29, 2011
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PCB Treatment in Grandes-Piles, Quebec
Submission ID: SEM-11-001
January 11, 2011
The Submitter asserts that Canada, and more specifically the province of Québec, is failing to effectively enforce Québec's Environment Quality Act ("Act" or "EQA") and the Regulation Respecting the Burial of Contaminated Soils ("Regulations") by issuing a permit for the use of...
Bicentennial Bridge
Submission ID: SEM-10-004
December 20, 2010
The Submitter asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to the authorization and construction of the Bicentennial Bridge (Puente Bicentenario) project in the municipality of Centro, Tabasco (the "Project"). In submission SEM-10-004...