Environment and
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January
January 7
Minister
commends Exploits Regional Services Board
January 15
Environment minister signs
Canada-Wide Standard for Dioxins and Furans
January 16
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
January 22
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
January 26
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
February
February 4
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
February 5
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
February 13
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
February 16
Minister
releases discussion paper on standards for institutional and commercial water
supplies
February 23
Minister seeks
input on proposed changes to Pesticides Control Regulations
March March
1
2002-03
Drinking Water Safety report released
NOTE TO EDITORS: Minister
to address St. John’s West Rotary Luncheon
March 3
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
March 4
NOTE TO EDITORS: Minister to address Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association's annual general meeting, March 4
Information from user permits helps protect
wilderness reserves
March 5
Minister
Osborne pleased with meeting with federal environment minister
March 8
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
March 10
NOTE TO EDITORS: Minister to speak at Rotary Club of Waterford Valley luncheon, March 10
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
March 16
NOTE TO EDITORS: Minister to address
Landscape, Turf and Structural Conference 2004
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
March 19
2004-05 Hunting and Trapping Guide and
big game licence applications mailed
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
March 24
Ministerial
Statement - Paper and cardboard recycling in Confederation Building
March 26
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
March 30
$1.5 million for Environmental Clean-up at Former Military Site in
St. Anthony
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
April
April 6
Environmental Assessment Bulletin - Trans Labrador Highway Project (Phase III)
April 12
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
April 13
Ministerial
Statement - Seeking nominations for Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental
Awards
April 19
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
April 21
Enhanced coyote
management plan announced
Ministerial Statement - New coyote harvest
introduced to the province
April 28
Public tender issued for collection of household
hazardous waste
April 30
Registry of
Water Rights available on-line
May May
3
Two sites in province listed for UNESCO World
Heritage Site nomination
May 4
Permits issued under Endangered Species Act
May 7
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
May 13
Cape St.
Mary’s Ecological Reserve 2004 season opening
May 14
Provincial
parks to open for 2004 season
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
May 17
Orphaned or
injured animals not to be removed from woods
Ministerial
Statement - St. John's Clean and Beautiful clean-up campaign -Take Pride, Take
Action!
May 18
Temporary ban on alcohol use at Notre Dame Provincial Park
May 19
Environmental Assessment
Bulletin
May 21
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
May 25
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
Ministerial Statement - Changes to Air Pollution
Control Regulations
May 26
Environmental Assessment
Bulletin
May 28
NOTE TO EDITORS:
Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Awards, May 31
May 31
15th annual
Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Awards presented
Ministerial Statement - Environment Week
June June
1
Opening of
Salmonier Nature Park for 2004 season
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
June 3
Provincial
parks reservations system open to the public
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
Public draw for
cottage lots
June 7
NOTE TO
EDITORS: News Conference, June 7 Subject: Used Tire Recycling Program
MMSB takes over
operation of used tire recycling program from NETS
June 8
Environmental Assessment
Bulletin
June 9
Changes made to
big game licence quotas
June 15
NOTE TO EDITORS
- Minister to address 40th Annual North American Moose Conference, June 16, Corner Brook
June 16
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
June 18
NOTE
TO EDITORS: Minister to address Trans Canada Trail Foundation annual
general meeting, June 19, St. John's
NOTE TO EDITORS:
Minister to participate in events in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, June 22, Labrador
June 22
Happy
Valley-Goose Bay signs Municipal Wetland Stewardship Agreement
June 25
NOTE
TO EDITORS: Coastal Zone Canada 2004 Conference, June 27, St. John's
June 28
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
June 29
2004-05 big
game license draw completed
July
July 2
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
July 5
Trans Labrador Highway, Phase
III released from environmental assessment
July 14
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
July 15
Minister
announces appointments to Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Advisory Council
July 16
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
July 23
Public reminded
of proper insecticidal use for elm spanworm
July 29
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
August August
3
Recovery strategy released for woodland caribou
herds in Labrador
August 6
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
August 9
Atlantic
Province’s Youth Hunting and Fishing Exchange Program winner announced
August 11
Environmental Assessment
Bulletin
August 13
NOTE TO EDITORS - Minister will give opening remarks at the 7th Annual Gannet Seabird Festival, Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve, August 14
NOTE TO EDITORS - Minister will address a luncheon being held by the Town of Conception Bay South, Worsley Park, August 16
August 16
Minister encourages public to celebrate 50th
anniversary of our provincial parks
August 17
NOTE TO EDITORS - "No Fees, No Fines" Vehicle Emissions Clinic
Minister launches "No Fees, No Fines"
Vehicle Emissions Clinics
August 18
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
August 24
Minister
announces disabled angler program
August 26
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
August 31
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
September
September
9
Minister to attend
meeting of Atlantic environment ministers
September 10
Hunting season for big game officially opens
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
NOTE TO EDITORS:
Minister to sign proclamation, September 13
September 13
Minister to attend Canadian Councils of Resource
Ministers’ Meeting in Yukon
September 14
2004 Parks as Nature’s Classroom program gets
underway this week
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
September 15
Newfoundland
Mushroom Foray 2004
September 17
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
September 20
NOTE
TO EDITORS: Minister of Environment to address Atlantic RBCA Environmental Risk
and Property Transactions Conference and Trade Show
4th
Annual Clean and Safe Drinking Water Workshop
September 23
Becoming an Outdoors Woman Program, October 8-10
September 24
NOTE TO
EDITORS: Minister to address delegates at the Canadian Institute of Geomatics,
Geographic Information (GI) 2004 Conference
Scientific research in protected areas of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2004
September 27
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
October
October 1
Provincial parks and ecological reserves to close for
the 2004 season
October 4
Environment
Assessment Bulletin
October 7
NOTE TO EDITORS
- Minister to participate in grand opening of wastewater treatment facility
October 13
Contract
awarded for environmental clean-up at former military site in St. Anthony
October 15
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
October 18
Newfoundland and Labrador celebrates Waste Reduction
Week
October 19
Cape St.
Mary’s Ecological Reserve Interpretation Centre closed for the season
October 26
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
October 28
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
Environment
minister to meet with national counterparts in Ottawa
November
November 1
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
November 5
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
November 8
MMSB announces
new approach to used tire recycling program
November
10
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
November 17
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
November 22
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
November 25
Multi-Materials Stewardship Board - Household Hazardous Waste Program diverts thousands of litres of waste from landfills
November
26
Guide licensing regulations enhanced
November
29
Environment Assessment Bulletin
NOTE TO EDITORS: Minister to appear before Standing Committee re: Bill C-15
December
December 1
Hunters charged under Endangered Species Act
Ministerial Statement - Standing Committee on
Environment and Sustainable Development
December
3
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
December 10
Environmental
Assessment Bulletin
December 13
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
December 16
NOTE TO EDITORS - Minister to address
Building Owners and Managers Association, December 17
December 20
Minister announces action plan for stockpile of tires
in Stephenville
December 23
Environmental Assessment Bulletin
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