Planet Haliburton

Haliburton County Council is taking the first tentative steps toward producing a plan to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions in Haliburton as well as building our capacity to deal with consequences of global warming and climate change, such as increased incidence of extreme weather, flood damage and insect-borne disease like Lyme’s Disease.

On the next episode of Planet Haliburton we are joined by recently elected County Warden Suzanne Partridge to get her take on the key environmental issues facing the County. We cover a lot of territory from climate change mitigation and adaptation to healthy shorelines and septic systems to the field spreading of septage.

The most recent audit of Ontario’s climate change policies and progress, entitled “Ontario’s Climate Act: From Plans to Progress”, was issued by on January 30, 2018. To discuss the good, the bad and the just plain ugly findings contained in her 284-page report, we’re joined for a feature interview by Dianne Saxe, Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner.