| | Watershed Sentinel-April/May 2002 |
 | | The urgency and secrecy may have been triggered by the fact that the Vancouver sewage system was reaching a point of crisis over sludge management, and this regulation solves the problem, temporarily. |
 | | In Ontario, current issues are: sewage sludge on fields in the Ottawa area, where the fractured bedrock is likely to lead to aquifer contamination; the ban on sales of Toronto sewage fertilizer due to heavy metal levels; and the disposal of paper recycling sludge as berms at gun clubs, with probable contamination of groundwater. |
 | | Eastern Vancouver Island (roughly the south-east fifth of the island) was largely exempted from biodiversity considerations under the Protected Areas Strategy because the vast majority of it is privately owned. |
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