• Ray Miller and Anne Ritchie-Nahuis, spokespersons for the Stop Dump Site 41 team, speak with Jordan Poppenk about developments regarding the Tiny Township acquifer, one of the planet’s purest sources of water and the planned site for a county landfill (County of Simcoe Warden Tony Guergis could not be reached for comment).
• First-time correspondant John Elides interviews John Baldry, the City of Toronto’s Supervisor of Processing Operations, about what happens to recycling materials once they are picked up from the curb.

The headlines in brief:

• On the heels of the release of Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory’s platform, Ontario Premier and Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty unveiled a rash of large environmental announcements this week that are not to be contingent on the October election outcome:
• Ontario will spend $11.5-billion over 12 years on a long list of public-transit projects;
• $88-million in retrofit funding will be spent over 5 years, crediting homeowners up to $5,000 for energy efficiency upgrades;
• $650-million is promised for environmental development in Ontario’s auto sector;
• Mr. McGuinty claimed Ontario will close its four remaining coal plants by 2014, by force of law.
• The city of Toronto passed an ambitious user-pay garbage system that will fund expanded recycling and composting programs;
• Wildlife inspectors are field testing a new way to stop traditional medicines containing illegal bear parts from entering Canada;
• Environmentalist David Suzuki ranked as this year’s most Priceless living Canadian celebrity, according to MasterCard Canada’s 2007 Priceless Index.
• China has taken over your title as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide;
• Desalinating seawater may be worsening climate change, according to a study done by the Word Wide Fund for Nature.
• Chemists have developed a way to efficiently and cleanly turn naturally occurring glucose sugars into plastics.

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