1) An important webinar on Friday, Feb. 11 10:00 am PT, hosted by CELA, (Canadian Environmental Law Association) topic concerns the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and possible changes to it, including to ensure our right to live in a healthy environment. Full details are below in Letters. Registration is required.
Today’s announcement indicates a willingness to amend CEPA, but what will be included? Is the EMF pollution to be considered as an environmental pollutant? This certainly will be discussed during the webinar.
Government of Canada delivers on commitment to strengthen the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 and recognizes a right to a healthy environment
“Today, the Government of Canada delivered on its commitment to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) and recognized that Canadians have a right to a healthy environment.
The amendments will enable the Government to respond effectively to new science, which is pointing to harms that were unanticipated in the past and to enable the use of new tools and sources of information that are now available to assess those risks. ”
2) At least 40 of 49 satellites recently launched have crashed, or are expected to burn and crash, due to “space storms”. More space debris is expected due to an active solar sunspot cycle.
Geomagnetic Storm Dooms 40 Starlink Internet Satellites
“Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink experienced a devastating space-weather impact last Friday when a geomagnetic storm forced “dozens” of newly launched low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites into “safe-mode” where they experienced “deorbiting” and will or already have crashed back to Earth, according to a SpaceX blog post…….
Starlink could experience more space weather events during future launches as Sunspot Cycle 25 began in 2020. This current cycle is expected to be super active and may pose a risk to satellites.”
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/02/spacex-satellites-launched-last-week-fall-from-orbit-and-burn.html
SpaceX says up to 40 Starlink satellites lost to geomagnetic storm
“The now-defunct satellites are expected to fall back to Earth in the coming days and burn up in the atmosphere.”
Letters:
This is a reminder for the upcoming webinar co-hosted by the Canadian Environmental Law Association and Nature Canada on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) on Friday February 11, 2022.
The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change along with Mr. Terry Duguid, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change will be making an important announcement on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) today at 3.30 p.m.
CELA-Nature Canada
WEBINAR: Friday February 11, 2022 (1:00-2:15 p.m. Eastern; 2:00-3:15 p.m. Atlantic; 10:00-11:15 a.m. Pacific)
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://cela.ca/changes_to_cepa/
Analysis & potential amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and what they mean for the environment and human health:
Preparing for Reform in 2022
Join the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and Nature Canada for a free webinar to discuss the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Canada’s main environmental legislation. CEPA was the focus of a parliamentary review in 2016.
Now the Government has the opportunity to make significant reforms to the Act in this parliamentary session. The webinar will provide a legal analysis and perspectives on key amendments to CEPA outlined in Bill C-28 which was introduced in April 2021 but was stopped by the 2021 election call. BILL C-28 focuses on specific areas such as Right to a Healthy Environment and vulnerable populations, pollution prevention of toxic substances and biotechnology products. The webinar will offer an opportunity to understand the amendments proposed in Bill C-28 and what a new bill may mean for protecting Canadians and their environment from impacts of pollution and biotechnology products. Panelists will offer their thoughts on how citizens can engage in the upcoming process to amend CEPA.
Joseph Castrilli, CELA counsel and Hugh Benevides for Nature Canada will present. Q&As will follow the presentations. Fe de Leon, CELA and Mark Butler, Nature Canada will also be available for questions. Behnam Doulatyari and April Weppler, CELA will share the moderator’s role.
Please join us for this webinar on Friday February 11, 2022 (Length 1 hr 15 mins)
Time:
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Atlantic Time
12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Central Time
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Mountain Time
10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Pacific Time
Registration by visiting: https://cela.ca/changes_to_cepa/
Who should participate: Environmental, health, labour non-governmental organizations, academics, legal experts, Indigenous organizations and communities, and youth organizations.
For more information, contact: Fe de Leon, Researcher and Paralegal, CELA, deleonf@cela.ca, (416)960-2284 ext 7223
Resources to CEPA Reform:
* Changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act – CEPA Webinar Series 2020-21
* CELA, Submissions on Bill C-28, An Act to amend Canadian Environmental Protection Act, February 4, 2022
* CELA, Proposed Amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (2018),
* Nature Canada: Necessary amendments to CEPA, 1999 to protect nature against new living organisms (24 June 2021)
This webinar is part of the CEPA Webinar series posted on the CELA website at: https://cela.ca/changes_to_cepa/
Registration is also available at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlf-qgrzwvEtAQ94geRZ55m_e7LvjDs1J_
Fe de Leon, MPH
Researcher and Paralegal
Canadian Environmental Law Association
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