Notes from a presentation at Great Lakes United's 2001 workshop, "Extended Producer Responsibility and the Automotive Industry". In this presentation European policies for end of life vehicles is explored.

Notes from a presentation at Great Lakes United's 2001 workshop, "Extended Producer Responsibility and the Automotive Industry". In this presentation carpet recycling in the US is discussed.

Notes from a presentation at Great Lakes United's 2001 workshop, "Extended Producer Responsibility and the Automotive Industry". In this presentation the successes and challenges of the Clean Car Campaign are explored.

The United States government has proposed that a number of general exemptions be included in the international treaty on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). This document explains how these exemptions will undermine the treaty.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Great Lakes United spare no effort to convince the
parties that all five Great Lakes must have LAMPS and that Lake Huron with all its waters be protected by a Lakewide Management Plan as called for in the GLWQA.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United, in concert with its member
groups, will exert pressure upon the federal government of Canada to ensure that the following elements are in place prior to passing the revised regulation into law: Acute lethality tests based on both rainbow trout and Daphnia magna; Lowered limits for pollutants on the MMLER list of substances; A legal link between the Environmental Effects Monitoring Program and the regulation; A national toxicity registry to give Canadians access to important monitoring information.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United commends the U.S. Government for
recognizing the importance of sea lamprey control and the need to pursue alternatives to lampricides; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United commends the Canadian Federal Government for its increased commitment to the program; BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that Great Lakes United urges the Congress of the United States to fund the commission at the proposed $12 million level so that it can continue to suppress sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes while improving implementation and research into alternative sea lamprey control techniques.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that governments be requested to legislate the permanent
closure and decommissioning of theses reactors and withdraw any and all publicly funded subsidies,and; BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED that all those public subsidies immediately be shifted into new decentralized generation facilities using clean and safe, sustainable renewable energy sources to help restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes
Basin ecosystem.

Therefore be it resolved: Great Lakes United calls upon the US and Canadian Federal
Governments to reaffirm their commitments to a strong and effective, legally binding global POPs treaty, and to instruct their POPS negotiating team to revise the stances they have been taking in a number of key areas: Elimination, loopholes, precaution, and final obligation. Be it further resolved that Great Lakcs United will assist its member organizations, other Great Lakes institutions, and other organizations in efforts to convince the US and Canadian governments to revise their POPs negotiating stance in advance of the December rneering in order to assure that a strong and effective, legally binding, global POPs treaty is agreed.

Health Canada's Great Lakes Health Effects Program prepared an analysis of health statistics for each of the Canadian AOCs that "may be linked to exposure to environmental contaminants." While not directly making a cause and effect link, each report stated what kinds of chemicals are known to result in particular health problems. The Health Canada reports were printed and ready for release by November 1998. The government, however, withheld them and they weren't released until almost a year later in October 1999. This was only because the government was forced to after community activists gained access to them and gave them to a news reporter. The Health Canada release was brief and they were quickly removed from the web and buried again. Shortly thereafter, Health Canada closed down its ground-breaking Great Lakes Health Effects Program. This document compiles reports for the following Areas of Concern: Jackfish Bay, Nipigon Bay, Peninsula Harbour, St. Marys River, and Thunder Bay.

Health Canada's Great Lakes Health Effects Program prepared an analysis of health statistics for each of the Canadian AOCs that "may be linked to exposure to environmental contaminants." While not directly making a cause and effect link, each report stated what kinds of chemicals are known to result in particular health problems. The Health Canada reports were printed and ready for release by November 1998. The government, however, withheld them and they weren't released until almost a year later in October 1999. This was only because the government was forced to after community activists gained access to them and gave them to a news reporter. The Health Canada release was brief and they were quickly removed from the web and buried again. Shortly thereafter, Health Canada closed down its ground-breaking Great Lakes Health Effects Program. This document compiles reports for: Bay of Quinte, Hamilton Harbour, Metro Toronto, Niagara River, Port Hope Harbour, St. Lawrence River.