Download or read book Technological Considerations Contributing to Development of a Strategy to Virtually Eliminate the Input of Persistent Toxic Substances to the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem written by International Joint Commission. Virtual Elimination Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Strategy for Virtual Elimination of Persistent Toxic Substances Appendices seven reports to the Virtual Elimination Task Force written by International Joint Commission. Virtual Elimination Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Virtual Elimination of Pollution from Toxic Substances written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINS OF THE CONCEPT The origins of the concept of virtual elimination are unclear, but it seems to have first appeared during final closed negotiations leading to the 1978 update to the 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) between the United States and Canada.(1). [...] DEFINING VIRTUAL ELIMINATION By its Fifth Biennial Report to the Parties (1990), the IJC had become very concerned about the problem of toxic chemicals in the Great Lakes, and it urged the Parties to "take every available action to stop the inflow of persistent toxic substances into the Great Lakes environment." In 1991, the Commission set up a Virtual Elimination Task Force to investigate the req [...] Seen in this light, the Commission believes that virtual elimination is the necessary and reasonable goal, and zero discharge, or nil human input, is the necessary and not unreasonable tactic for achievement of the virtual elimination strategy.(8) THE BINATIONAL STRATEGY The IJC's Seventh Biennial Report adopted the Task Force's work in toto and further recommended that: Governments adopt a specif [...] The challenge reductions, therefore, do not amount in and of themselves to virtual elimination but are interim goals toward that end.(11) In Canada, the federal government and the Government of Ontario cooperate toward achieving the goals of the GLWQA through the Canada-Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem (COA). [...] Section 77(4) of CEPA 1999 makes virtual elimination mandatory: (4) Where the Ministers [i.e., the federal ministers of Environment and Health] propose to take the measure referred to in paragraph (2)(c) in respect of a substance and the Ministers are satisfied that (a) the substance is persistent and bioaccumulative in accordance with the regulations, (b) the presence of the substance in the envi.

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