Today Environment Minister Dan Newman attacked the federal government's five year plan to reduce sulphur in gasoline to 30 parts per million by 2005. The province has authority over power plants and other industrial sources and has given them 15 years to reduce smog-causing emissions. In the meantime, Ontario is forcing them to monitor their emissions. The Minister needs a history lesson. His government actively opposed reducing sulphur in gasoline until Christine Stewart annouced federal regulations in Toronto last June.
Regulations allow three times as much smog-causing nitrogen emissions than plants in New York State.
No regulations are being contemplated to force those emissions down. Meanwhile 5000 Ontarians die from air pollution in Ontario every year.