canada places #1-6, w00t

[thebarber]

eco sites to visit (http://green.sympatico.msn.ca/article.aspx?cp-documentid=740007)

[dngz]

wow... thats so sad...

[Crandall]

Who wants to take a trip to the Tar Ponds!

[voodoo22]

When I was in university Canadians were the biggest polluters and most wasteful creators of garbage in the world. I doubt we've improved any since then. We only have a good image because we have so much green space, but if we were as crowded as Japan, we'd probably all be bathing in our own filth in a week if we kept our current mind set on how to handle resources.

[sketch182]

I can't say that Canada is without blame, but if you have a look at environmental disaster areas around the world, there are many places that make Canadian problems pale in comparison. There is an interesting site that gives the 51 things that we can all do to help the environment at 51 Things (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/environment/) Every bit counts.

[voodoo22]

While that is true, with the resources available to us both technologically and monetarily, we should be ashamed of our habits and lack or procedures in place to help the environment. A recent of this nations stupidity when it comes to procedures is the idiotic plan of Toronto Mayor David Miller to have stores in Toronto charge consumers 5 cents for plastic bags. This solves nothing, especially when the millions in profit from this law will go back into the stores pockets. Why can't we have biodegradable plastic bags like they have had in places like Japan for over a decade? On a recent trip to Peru, I was shocked to see even a poor country like that using biodegradable plastic bags in their stores, while we in Canada are somehow incapable of forcing such change.

The main reason our problems don't seem too bad is because we have so much space and a rare excess of resources.

Thanks for that link, it looks like an interesting read and I always appreciate the ideas of others.

[sketch182]

I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the biodegradable plastic bags.

[alhope34]

My mom grew up next door to the tar ponds, her father worked at the Sydney steel plant for over 30 years.

[marcus]

My mom grew up next door to the tar ponds, her father worked at the Sydney steel plant for over 30 years.

hey how do you like the 2010 mazda3 hatch.. it looks hot..

[TinyGiant]

some company should go recycle that texas sized plastic payload

[TinyGiant]

maybe over time coral and stuff will grow over the bottom of it and make it a stable platform.. a mobile island :)

[hop]

I dont know why quebec hydro dams are on there. the reason they flood lands like that is because the land has more value as a watershed then a barren piece of tundra......

alot of the reports that were about left overs from steel and coal production..is nothing compared to USA china russia germany, Canada is like #8 for world steel and coal production...


I have family in europe and russia and what they have there dosnt compare to us...

[stuffy]

there's no way we have the top 6 worst environmental disaster sites in the world.
compare us to countries with very little regulation and heavy industry (ie, china) and we are saints.

[Black Yaris]

I am going to bet that Windsor, Ontario: the most polluted city in North America has something to do with Detroit being so close....

my vote for dirtiest city would have to be Tijuana.... it is way dirtier than Windsor, hell Detroit is dirtier than Windsor

[thebarber]

I am going to bet that Windsor, Ontario: the most polluted city in North America has something to do with Detroit being so close....

my vote for dirtiest city would have to be Tijuana.... it is way dirtier than Windsor, hell Detroit is dirtier than Windsor

Saint John, NB is doing pretty well.....a couple of pulp and paper mills downtown dumping their sh!t in the Saint John river and out into the ocean.....oil rig off the coast too

win win, lol