On 30 August 2005, the Academia Sonorense de Derechos Humanos and Domingo Gutiérrez Mendívil (the “Submitters”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat in accordance with Article 14(1) of the NAAEC (the “Submission”). In submission SEM-05-003 (Environmental Pollution in Hermosillo II), the Submitters assert that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in relation to the prevention and control of air pollution in the city of Hermosillo, Sonora.
Contains: Factual Record for Submission SEM-03-003 (Lake Chapala II)
Submissions on Enforcement Matters: Factual Record regarding Submission SEM-04-007 (Quebec Automobiles)
On 14 August 2003, Waterkeeper Alliance, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Société pour Vaincre la Pollution, Environmental Bureau of Investigation, and Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper/Save the River! filed a submission with the Secretariat pursuant to NAAEC Article 14.
On 17 June 2003, Ángel Lara García (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in connection with a polystyrene latex manufacturing and impregnation plant operated by ALCA, S.A. de C.V. (“ALCA”).
On 6 February 2002, Canadian Nature Federation, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Earthroots, Federation of Ontario Naturalists, Great Lakes United, Sierra Club (United States), Sierra Club of Canada, and Wildlands League (together, the “Submitters”), represented by Sierra Legal Defence Fund, filed with the Secretariat a submission alleging that Canada is failing to effectively enforce federal migratory bird conservation legislation in connection with logging operations in Ontario.
On 8 May 2002, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, on behalf of Friends of the Earth, Union Saint-Laurent, Grand Lacs, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Ecology Action Centre and Environment North (the “Submitters”), filed a submission (cited as “Submission”) asserting that Canada is failing to effectively enforce sections 34, 36, 40, 78 and 78.1 of the […]
Produced by the CEC, the North American Environmental Law and Policy series presents some of the most salient recent trends and developments in environmental law and policy in Canada, Mexico and the United States, including official documents related to the novel citizen submission procedure empowering individuals from the NAFTA countries to allege that a Party […]
On 6 April 2000, Academia Sonorense de Derechos Humanos, A.C. and Domingo Gutiérrez Mendivil (the “Submitters”) filed a submission with the Secretariat in accordance with NAAEC Article 14. The submission asserted that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in relation to a molybdenum roaster operated by Molymex, S.A. de C.V. (“Molymex”) in […]
On 7 April 1997, Comité Pro Limpieza del Río Magdalena (the “CPLRM” or the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the Secretariat in accordance with Article 14 of the NAAEC (SEM-97-002). The submission asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law with respect to wastewater from the municipalities of Imuris, Magdalena de Kino […]
In June 1998, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, on behalf of Sierra Club of British Columbia, Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia, and Taku Wilderness Association (the “Submitters”), filed a submission with the Secretariat alleging the systemic failure of the Government of Canada to enforce s. 36(3) of the Fisheries Act (“s. 36(3)”) against mining operations in British Columbia, in particular as regards violations of s. 36(3) caused by acid rock drainage (“ARD”). S. 36(3) prohibits the deposit of deleterious substances into waters frequented by fish, unless authorized by regulation.
On 4 October 1997, The Friends of the Oldman River filed a submission (SEM-97-006 (Oldman River II), the “submission”) with the Secretariat asserting that Canada is failing to effectively enforce the fish habitat protection provisions of the federal Fisheries Act and related provisions of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (“CEAA”).
