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CEC receives a submission on an electric power transmission line project in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec

Montreal, 12 December 2018—On 7 December, the Citizen Advisory Committee of Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard (Comité aviseur de citoyens de Saint-Adolphe d’Howard) and a group of residents (the “Submitters”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that the province of Quebec is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws with respect to a 40km electric power transmission line project that will run through...

December 12, 2018

Negotiations on a new Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (ECA) completed

30 November 2018 - Today the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a new trade agreement to update and modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994. The Parties also announced the completion of negotiations on a new Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (ECA) that is expected to supersede the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation of 1994. ...

December 3, 2018

CEC receives a submission on a tourism development project in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Montreal, 15 November 2018—On 9 November, an organization in Mexico (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to the Chileno Bay Club tourism development located in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. In submission SEM-18-004 (Chileno Bay Club), the submitter maintains that the project developer went beyond the authorized...

November 15, 2018

CEC receives a submission on hydraulic fracturing in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Montreal, 9 October 2018—On 3 October 2018, a resident from the municipality of Los Ramones in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to hydraulic fracturing operations which are now causing harm to the health and the environment of the...

October 9, 2018

Hundreds of citizen scientists from across North America take part in the second trinational Monarch Monitoring Blitz

Montreal, 27 September 2018—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce the results of the second annual Trinational Monarch Monitoring Blitz (the Blitz), and thanks the hundreds of citizen scientists across North America who gathered critical data over a week-long period to support monarch butterfly conservation. Between July 28 and August 5, 486 citizen scientists from Canada, Mexico...

September 27, 2018

CEC Council Votes for the Publication of the Agricultural Burning in Sonora Factual Record

Montreal, 20 September 2018—The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) voted unanimously to instruct the CEC Secretariat to publish the factual record—available in English, Spanish and French—with regard to Submission SEM-16-001 (Agricultural Burning in Sonora). The Submission asserts that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce provisions of the Environmental Protection Regulation (Reglamento de Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Medio...

September 20, 2018