GLIN==> air quality report card

[GreenPlanet <riccawu@MNSi.Net>]

october 18, 2000

for immediate release


CEA Releases Air Quality Report Card for Windsor

“….disappointed in the lack of commitment to our air quality.”

The Citizens Environment Alliance has released its Air Quality Action
Plan Report Card on the City of Windsor’s efforts at addressing air
pollution.  The Report is available at
http://www.mnsi.net/~cea. 

The CEA June 2000 “progress” report yielded nearly all failing grades. 
In this more comprehensive year-end report only a few grades have
improved. The CEA is calling on Windsor City Council and Administration
to allocate adequate resources so that departments can properly implement
the provisions of the Air Quality Action Plan.  The report finds that a
paltry 10 cents per resident is being spent on improving the air; Ottawa
spends almost twenty times that amount.

“I’m disappointed in the lack of commitment to our air quality. The
current problem with the city of Windsor is systemic.  Unless there are
fundamental changes to the operating and decision-making practices of
Council and Administration, air quality issues will continue to be
inadequately addressed”, stated Shawn Hupka, CEA President.

The Alliance will continue to address its concerns at the Windsor Essex
County Air Quality Committee and has invited all City of Windsor
candidates to a public forum on the environment.  The forum will be held
at Kennedy High School on November 1, 2000.

For more information call (519) 973-1116 or join CEA researchers at the
SOCANI Workshop being held in Windsor this afternoon at the Great Lakes
Institute for Environmental Research  2990 Riverside Drive West. Noon
til  4pm

Citizens' Environment Alliance
of Southwestern Ontario
P.O. Box 548, Station A,
Windsor, ON  N9A 6M6
phone  (519) 973-1116
fax  (519) 973-8360
cea@mnsi.net
http://www.mnsi.net/~cea/
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