A lot has happened, since we last spoke with Dianne Saxe: internationally, nationally and right here in Ontario.

The more variable weather that comes with a warming climate increases that likelihood of winter freeze/thaw events and the risk that melting snow and rain on roads will turn into ice.

Dianne Saxe, The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, issued her 2018 Greenhouse Gas Progress Report, entitled “Climate Action in Ontario: What’s Next?” in late September.

While greenhouse gas concentrations rise to unprecedented levels, climate scientists are becoming more and more vocal about the urgent need for action to avoid triggering runaway climate disruption.

The June 7th Ontario Provincial election not only put Doug Ford in the Premier’s Office, it also put the first Green Party MPP in Ontario’s history in the Legislative Assembly.

On the September 24th episode of Planet Haliburton we examine the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly aspects of the septic inspection programs being rolled out across the county.

With 40 percent of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions coming from the construction, heating and cooling of the buildings we live and work in, decreasing the energy budgets of our built infrastructure seems like a no-brainer.

40 percent of GHG emissions in Ontario are generated by the construction, operation, and maintenance of our buildings.

Lyme Disease has been diagnosed in Haliburton County and the risk it poses to human health will only increase as the climate warms and tick populations grow.

With Doug Ford’s election as Ontario’s new Premier on June 7th, public policy on climate change has been thrown into disarray. While Ford claims to be a carbon tax denier and not a climate change denier, the first official act of his new cabinet was to kill the previous government’s entire cap and trade system for putting both limits and a price on carbon pollution.