The new Ontario Toxics Reduction Act hits many Ontario manufacturing and mineral processing companies with tough new accounting, reporting and planning requirements related to the creation, use and release of NPRI substances.

If your company is one of the thousands covered by the new Act, it is absolutely critical for you to understand the new Act’s requirements, and meet the phased-in deadlines that take effect over the coming several years.   

This webinar will help you:

• Get a Complete, Easy-to-Understand Explanation of What the New Law Means to Your Company and How to Comply with the New Regulations  
• Find Out What Substances the New Act Covers, What You Must Be Tracking, and What Critical Reporting Dates and Deadlines You Must Meet
• Get Practical “How-to” Help to Develop a Toxic Substance Reduction Plan that Meets New Requirements

To give you the help you need, this practical, 90-minute “how-to” webinar gives you a crystal-clear explanation of the new law … tells what companies are covered, what substances they must report on and what deadlines must be met … and gives the practical help you need to develop your toxics reduction plan.

Make no mistake: While many companies are now reporting on NPRI substances, the new Act goes beyond reporting.  You must now develop and implement a plan to reduce the manufacture, use and release of designated substances.  Plus, you must now report on your progress to the government and to the public.  This Webinar gives you the help you need.    

The Webinar is presented by Mark Madras, a leading Canadian environmental lawyer who has extensive experience advising and defending corporate clients, and Daniel Bunner, Principal of Environ, an environmental consulting firm that specialized in toxic substance management.   

You will have the opportunity to get clear answers to the specific questions you have regarding your toxics compliance and reporting requirements.

Here’s just a sample of what you will learn:

• You get a crystal-clear overview of the new law’s requirements, including which companies are covered by the new law … and which companies may be exempt from the new law’s provisions
• You find out which NPRI substances are currently coved by the new law … and what find out how the list of covered substances expands over the coming 2 years    
• You get a full rundown on the critical new reporting dates and deadlines … including the phased-in requirements you must meet … and the annual reporting deadlines that you must plan to meet beginning now
• You get a complete explanation of the new requirements to develop a plan to reduce your use of NPRI toxics … tells what your plan must covering, including targets for toxics reduction … description of each process at facilities that use toxics … analysis of options for reducing the use of toxics … and what your statement of options to be implemented must include
• You find out who must sign off on the plan … when plans must be reviewed … and get a full rundown on the new requirements that make it mandatory to provide summaries of your plan to the public
• You find out what you must new include in your annual reports to the MOE … what steps you should be taking now to prepare for the first reporting deadline … and the critical deadline date for developing your reduction plan     
• You get the opportunity to ask questions and get the answers you need from experts on the ins and outs of the new Ontario Toxics Reduction Act.
• And much more!

Mark Madras is a partner in Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and specializes in the practice of environmental law. Mark is recognized as one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers, and counsels clients with respect to a variety of environmental regulation and liability concerns, including climate law, toxic and new substance regulation, contaminated lands, air and water emissions, dangerous goods transportation, waste management, facility auditing, environmental reporting, emergency preparedness and response, environmental issues in commercial transactions, and corporate as well as officer and director environmental compliance concerns.  Mark has been counsel on a large number of complex contaminated lands disputes. He has advised manufacturing and chemical industry clients on plant decommissionings across Canada.

Dan Bunner is a Principal in Environ, LLC and  has more than 20 years of project management experience that includes Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), remedial planning, site-specific risk assessments, compliance audits, decommissioning programs, and hydrogeologic investigations.  Daniel has extensive project management experience on remediation and decommissioning projects that require on-site and off-site remedial planning, stream and stream bank rehabilitation, rail line and spur remedial activities, and remedial supervision, as well as regulatory approvals, verification, legal liaison, process modifications, and the development and implementation of corporate Environmental Management Systems.  Daniel has served as Senior Reviewer and Technical Advisor to more than 25 aggregate production and concrete preparation facilities for their environmental compliance auditing and Phase I ESAs.

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