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Turning the tide: Federal dollars to clean pollution and deliver clean water for Great Lakes communities

| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases

Today, Irek Kusmierczyk, Member of Parliament for Windsor—Tecumseh, and Terry Duguid, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Special Advisor for Water, announced one of the largest single investments in freshwater restoration in Canadian history: $76 million to support 50 partner-led projects as part of the Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative.


Enforcement patrols during the 2023 fall migratory bird hunting season net $35,000 in court fines for seven hunters in Newfoundland and Labrador

| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases

Enforcement officers carried out a series of patrols in collaboration with partner agencies, resulting in charges and $35,000 in total court-ordered fines for seven hunters provincewide for offences under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 and the Migratory Birds Regulations, 2022. In addition to the fines, the convicted hunters are prohibited from holding a migratory game-bird hunting permit, and from hunting migratory birds for a period of one year


Canadian and Colombian Environment Ministers Meet to Share International Leadership Ambition on Nature and Biodiversity

| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases

Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will meet with H.E. Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, to discuss shared biodiversity, environment, and climate priorities in advance of Colombia’s hosting of COP16, “The People’s COP.”


2253457 Ontario Inc. fined $100,000 for unlawful deposit of diesel fuel in Etobicoke Creek

| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases

On August 15, 2024, 2253457 Ontario Inc., a fuel-supply company in Mississauga, Ontario, was fined $100,000 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton. The company pleaded guilty to one offence under the Fisheries Act relating to the unlawful deposit of diesel fuel into fish-bearing waters between February 7 and March 5, 2019. The fine will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund.


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