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  • 2002 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development
    Chapter 2: The Legacy of Federal Contaminated Sites.
    Thousands of contaminated sites exist on federal lands across Canada. These sites can lead to water contamination, take valuable land out of productive use, and threaten human health and the environment. The federal government has so far failed to address the issue of federal contaminated sites adequately... Thirteen years after it started to deal with this issue, it still ...
  • 2002 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development
    Chapter 3: Abandoned Mines in the North.
    Abandoned mines in northern Canada are complex contaminated sites inherited by the federal government from past private-sector mining operations... Hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic chemicals such as arsenic and cyanide are found at northern abandoned mine sites. These chemicals, the result of past mining operations, have accumulated to hazardous levels. 
  • Environment Canada 2001-2002 Annual Report.
    Ontario Region - Environmental Protection Branch.
 
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