Translation of "Environmental Assessment and Chemical Data Division " (English → French) :

54. Advocates strict control and continued testing and assessment of the environmental impact of chemical dispersants (and emergency response plans involving the use of chemical dispersants) both to ensure their suitability in the event of a spill and to avoid public health and environmental implications; calls for the Commission to provide for more detailed research into the impacts of such chemicals through ...[+++]EU research programmes if necessary;

39. Advocates strict control, continued testing and assessment of the environmental impact of chemical dispersants (and on emergency response plans involving the use of chemical dispersants) both to ensure their suitability in the event of a spill and to avoid public health and environmental implications; calls for the Commission to ensure more detailed research into the impacts of such chemicals through EU re ...[+++]search programmes if necessary.

55. Advocates strict control and continued testing and assessment of the environmental impact of chemical dispersants (and emergency response plans involving the use of chemical dispersants) both to ensure their suitability in the event of a spill and to avoid public health and environmental implications; calls for the Commission to provide for more detailed research into the impacts of such chemicals through ...[+++]EU research programmes if necessary;

I shall now turn to the Commission proposal for a directive on environmental quality standards for priority substances. The objective of the proposed directive is to set harmonised and transparent criteria for assessing good chemical status of surface waters, which must be achieved by 2015.

2004 Report of the Commissioner of Firearms, tabled in the House of Commons, July 20, 2005 Statistics Canada table 254-0002, September 9, 2005 Question No. 180 Mr. Loyola Hearn: SWith regard to the U.S. booster rocket that was launched over Newfoundland and Labrador in May of 2005: (a) when was the government notified that the rocket was to be launched; (b) what was the government’s initial reaction to the notification of the launching of this rocket; (c) was there a request made by the government that the rocket not be launched and, if so, was the request an official request and was it oral or written; (d) was a Canadian ...[+++]environmental assessment performed before the launch of this rocket; (e) has a Canadian environmental assessment been performed since the launch of the rocket; (f) are there plans to do an environmental assessment; (g) what chemicals, if any, were deposited into the ocean as a result of the launching of this rocket; (h) was a clean-up of any chemicals performed as a result of the launching of this rocket and, if so, by whom and at what cost; (i) does the government have any scientific reports of the effects of the booster rocket chemicals on marine life; (j) is the government aware if the U.S. intends to launch future rockets over similar areas of our coastline and, if so, when will these rockets be launched; (k) has the booster been retrieved from the ocean floor; and (l) are there plans to retrieve the booster from the ocean floor and, if so, when and at what cost?

These measures along with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act will do much to integrate environmental considerations, environmental evaluations into virtually every federal government decision (1225 ) So many things are happening in Atlantic Canada in development, whether they are large pulp mills, lumbering industries, the transport of chemicals and products, that are detrimental to ...[+++]our environment should there be difficulties and accidents.