Smog Costs Canadians $36 Billion Annually
Peter Mansbridge, of CBC's The National, explores our recent findings regarding how much pollutions costs Canada.
Peter Mansbridge, of CBC's The National, explores our recent findings regarding how much pollutions costs Canada.
We discuss a recent report, Costs of Pollution in Canada: Measuring the impacts on families, businesses and governments, with Canada's CTV News.
"Une étude chiffre les coûts directs des effets de la pollution sur la santé et le bien-être à 39 milliards de dollars par an au pays. Mais les données sur le sujet sont tellement clairsemées que la facture réelle pourrait bien être beaucoup plus élevée. L’Institut international du développement durable (IISD) publie jeudi un rapport qui se veut le portrait le plus exhaustif des coûts associés à la pollution jamais réalisé au Canada. Il s’est toutefois vite buté à une difficulté de taille : les lacunes dans les données de recherche sur le sujet."
"Robert Smith from the International Institute for Sustainable Development explains the study, “Costs of Pollution in Canada.”"
"Pollution is expensive business. It apparently costs the Canadian economy tens of billions of dollars every year, according to a new report released Thursday by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. The not-for-profit organization set out to measure the impact of pollution on Canadian families, businesses and the government, in order to comprehensively tally the economic toll pollution takes on Canadians."
"Un projet scientifique dans le Nord de l'Ontario est de grand intérêt dans le monde scientifique. La Région des lacs expérimentaux dans le district de Kenora compte près d'une soixantaine de lacs qui sont à l'abri de l'impact des activités humaines."
"Scott Higgins is a research scientist with the IISD Experimental Lakes Area, based in Winnipeg. Higgins said there are beaches along the Great Lakes that have been covered with shells in the past, but it doesn't necessarily mean the health of the lake will be drastically harmed."
"Higgins says zebra mussels have been confirmed in four bodies of water in Manitoba: Cedar Lake, Singush Lake in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, the Red River and Lake Winnipeg since 2013. Higgins says in about the 700 or so lakes that have been invaded in North America, there are only two examples where they’ve been effectively eliminated, and both were small lakes where potash was added."
"The Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development estimates that the costs of pollution in Canada exceeded $35 billion in 2015."
"The latest map provided the “key integrated perspective on watershed health and integrity,” Henry Venema, a planning director at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the chair of the Canadian Water Summit, told Global News."