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Focuses on the enormous environmental cleanup bill that Canadian industry faces. Confusion over who pays for what; Ever-changing demands from regulators; Cleanup bill could exceed 20 billion dollars; Canadian economy is particularly vulnerable because of its reliance on natural resources; The Bata case. INSET: Getting the lead out.;Canada's dirty dozen and how they got that.

Considers why Canadian companies are turning to environmental auditors in the wake of higher costs for cleaning up contaminated soil. Escalation of the problem; Environmental audits described; Caveats about environmental auditing. INSET: The insurance crunch..

Discusses whether the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico has improved the economy in Canada. Anti-globalization issues that brought protesting activists to the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico on September 14, 2003; Focus on the 1990s in which the aim of NAFTA was to increase trade liberalization and investment within the continent; Statistics on trade between the U.S. and Canada, up to 2002; Environmental policy problems caused by the NAFTA side accord; Mention of complaints filed under Chapter 11, the NAFTA investment protection clause; Concern about deepening economic relations between the U.S. and Canada.

The article looks at environmental assessment of proposed mining projects in Canada, as of 2013. It outlines the adoption of the 2012 Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA), saying it was designed to streamline assessments and prevent project delays. It discusses Taseko Mines's proposed Prosperity Mines project in British Columbia, whose review under the CEAA is due to be completed in November 2013.

The article looks at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth report on global warming, released in October 2013, and its likely impact on governments' climate change policies, focusing on Canada. The author says that Canada has taken few significant steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Topics include carbon taxes and the Keystone XL petroleum pipeline.

The article discusses government policy in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada regarding energy industries and oil projects as of July 2013. Topics include the rejected proposal for the construction of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline by the pipeline transport company Enbridge; environmental policy regarding the oil industry in B.C.; and conditions for oil projects as stated by B.C. Premier Christy Clark.

The article discusses environmental policy in Canada as of April 2013, with information on the pending approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and government policy in the U.S. on climate change. Topics include Canadian policy on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions; the growth of Canada's oilsands industry; and the oil industry in Alberta, Canada.

This article discusses software from Carbonetworks Corp., which assists executives in planning for future environmental compliance regulations by mapping out corporate carbon footprints. This subscription based service will be useful as anticipated caps on carbon emissions and markets for trading emissions allowances are designed. The utility of this software in quantifying the financial advantages of different approaches to pollution mitigation is discussed.

This article focuses on the efforts of Canada to develop a trading platform for greenhouse-gas emission credits. Steve Teller is a man whose job is on hold. He's project manager of the Canadian Climate Exchange, a company that the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange formed two years ago to develop a trading platform for greenhouse-gas emissions credits, which corporations will be able to buy and sell in order to meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. There is a small swarm of brokers, consultants, fledgling exchanges and other entrepreneurial companies expecting that Canada's Kyoto commitments--to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012--will spawn a new industry around the trading of emission credits. A trading system gives businesses that face pollution restrictions the choice of paying the government for credits, subsidizing emission reduction projects elsewhere, or paying for internal measures that reduce emissions, whichever is cheaper. These are companies in the electricity generation, oil and gas, mining and heavy manufacturing industries, which together are expected to produce about half of Canada's total greenhouse-gas emissions by 2010. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect on Feb. 16, and yet Canada's plan to meet its steep--some say impossible--emission reduction obligations is still not fully known.

The article focuses on Hanfeng Evergreen Co. Hanfeng nursery company, which joined the TSX in September after trading on the Venture Exchange for more than a year, is taking advantage of China's stated commitment to becoming more environmentally friendly. It's also using its Canadian connection to bring the latest landscape and fertilizer know-how into a country that is only now acknowledging the importance of going green. China's goal is to increase spending on environmental protection to as much as 5% of GDP. With the approaching Beijing Olympics, in 2008 and Shanghai Expo, in 2010, Chinese municipalities are dramatically increasing spending on urban landscaping. Chief operating officer Zhao Peiyong notes that many of the mature trees Hanfeng plants in China's parks and boulevards are actually from Canada, quite an accomplishment when you consider the difficulties in shipping them across the Pacific. It now has nurseries in Beijing, Shanghai and Dalian in the northeast, and plans to start up more as business expands to new locations in China. The founder of Hanfeng, president and CEO Yu Xinduo, was among the first Chinese entrepreneurs to realize the business opportunity behind China's urban greening movement in the lead-up to its successful bid for the 2008 Olympics, which was sold to the International Olympic Committee as "the green Olympics." Realizing the potential that comes with the fact that there are more than 600 cities in China, most with virtually no grass or landscaping, Yu expanded Hanfeng into lawn-care equipment and fertilizer, and secured distribution rights for North American suppliers of landscaping products.

The article looks at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 release of its fifth report on global warming and its likely impact on governments' climate change-related policies, focusing on Canada. The author says that Canada has taken few significant steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Topics include carbon taxes and the Keystone XL petroleum pipeline.

The article compares environmental regulations for coal and natural gas fired power plants in the U.S. and Canada in 2013. Topics include the regulations set forth by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the carbon capture storage requirements for power plants, and how well the regulations limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The article briefly notes assorted content available at the publication's Website canadianbusiness.com and via its application for the iPad tablet computer including a ranking of Canada's wealthiest neighborhoods, a blog on environmental policy by Andrew Leach, and commentary from Trevor Melanson on alleviating problems related to automobile traffic.

The article discusses environmental policy in British Columbia, Canada as of 2013, with information on carbon taxes and climate-change policies. Topics include criticism by B.C.'s auditor general John Doyle on the aim of the Pacific Carbon Trust to issue carbon credits to offset emissions by public-sector business, carbon accounting debates, and Canadian government policy for pollution reduction.

The article presents statistics on the attitudes of Canadians as of April 2013 on climate change policy in Canada, the environmental aspects of the oilsands industry in Canada, and the need for further legislation to mitigate climate change due to Canada's energy industries.

The author argues that the cap-and-trade carbon emissions limiting system developed in European Union countries and implemented in California in 2012 could fail in Canada, based on political interference and government subsidies to industries that consume large amounts of energy. International cooperation on carbon emissions trading and energy policies in Germany, Great Britain, and Russia are discussed.

The article presents editorial opinion on the Canadian government's involvement with environmental issues. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's appointment of John Baird as environment minister seems to signal that the Conservative government is making the environment a priority. Doubts persist, however, since Baird was left off the economic affairs committee, chaired by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, which is mandated to oversee policies' economic impact.

The article discusses the effect Canada's new Conservative minority government will have on its oilsands policy. The industry has benefited from tax breaks, which looks unlikely to change. Environmental groups have argued that the booming oil industry and the higher levels of pollution that accompany it should mean an end to tax benefits. Conservative leaders have said they support maintaining the status quo.

The article reports on the United Nation Climate Change Conference in Montreal. No specific goals for further emissions reductions were set at the conference, although the delegates did agree to future talks. Canada's business community was largely left out of the process, but there are concerns that the longer it takes to arrange a specific date and plan for emissions reductions, the greater the economic impact will be.

Focuses on the idea that if the Earth is truly heating up, people should think up ways to capitalize on it, rather than choking the economy out of fear in October 2002. View that Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has turned into an environmental zealot because he seems intent on committing Canada to the Kyoto agreement on greenhouse emissions before Christmas, despite very strong opposition from industry and the provinces. Discussion of the agreement which in its present form is said to have little impact on global temperatures, but will impact the Canadian economy, according to a study prepared by Standard & Poor's Data Research Inc. on the transition costs of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Idea that the Kyoto agreement will stimulate technology, create investment uncertainty, and give a competitive edge to the heaviest-polluting countries such as China; Opinion that there is no definitive evidence that the Earth is heating up.

Comments on proposals of the federal government of Canada on how the country might meet greenhouse-gas reductions set by the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement. Criticism of the proposals by Environment Minister Lorne Taylor; Options which are being discussed, including a domestic emissions trading plan.

Discusses voluntary environmental programs of corporations versus government-sponsored environmental regulation in Canada as of May 2001. Study conducted by Kathryn Harrison concerning which method works to protect the environment better; Her investigation into the perceived success of two federal programs.