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Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Ministerial Statement
Eighteenth Regular Session of the CEC Council Montreal, Canada, 22 June 2011—Today, we, the environment ministers of Canada, Mexico and the United States, are proud to present a comprehensive set of initiatives designed to conserve, protect and enhance the North American environment through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Working through the unique partnership of the CEC allows us to...
June 22, 2011
Get involved in the 2011 CEC Council meeting and e-waste public forum: webcast starts tomorrow
Both events will be webcast live with simultaneous translation in English, Spanish and French. Montreal, 20 June 2011—Don't miss the chance to participate in the 18th Regular Session of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation's (CEC) Council and related events starting tomorrow, even if you can't make it to Montreal in person. The events will be broadcast online in English, Spanish...
June 20, 2011
Citizen committee makes recommendations on proposed CEC projects
JPAC highlights transparency and communication as key elements for trilateral environmental cooperation, and invites you to participate in the CEC’s next public session Montreal, 25 May 2011—Transparency and open citizen dialogue are two key elements to successfully reach the collective environmental goals of the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States, according to the most recent Advice to Council...
May 25, 2011
Invitation to participate in the 2011 CEC Council Session
Public forum to discuss e-waste in North America Montreal, 29 April 2011—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to invite you to the Eighteenth Regular Session of its Council and related events, to be held 21–22 June 2011, in Montreal, Canada. Public events begin 21 June with a forum organized by the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) to...
April 29, 2011
CEC Council instructs Secretariat to cease preparation of factual record on Species at Risk submission
Montreal, 20 April 2011—On 15 April 2011, the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), through Council Resolution 11–02, instructed the Secretariat to proceed no further with preparation of a factual record regarding Submission SEM-06-005 (Species at Risk). The Submission, filed on 10 October 2006, by a consortium of Canadian organizations, asserted that Canada is failing to effectively enforce the...
April 20, 2011
Latest report on North American industrial pollution reveals impacts on our shared water environment
Over 228 million kilograms of direct pollutant releases to surface waters were reported by industrial facilities in North America in 2006. In addition to direct releases to water, a minimum of 133 million kilograms of pollutants were transferred to sewage and/or wastewater treatment systems. Ninety percent of reported volumes released to surface waters comprised just two pollutants—nitrate compounds and ammonia—associated...
April 11, 2011
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