The present Act provides for the management and protection of the environment. At the outset the Act contains a definition clause relating to various terms therein employed, such as “accepted environmental protection plan”, “adverse effect”, “corrective action plan”, “environmental protection order”, “environmentally impacted site”, “ground water2; “hazardous substance”, “hazardous waste”. In particular, for the purpose of the present Act “environment” means: (i) air and the layers of the atmosphere; (ii) land, including soil, subsoil, sediments, consolidated surficial deposits and rock; (iii) water; (iv) organic and inorganic matter and living organisms; and (v) the interacting natural systems and ecological and climatic interrelationships that include the components mentioned in subclauses (i) to (iv). Section 2 establishes the Saskatchewan Environmental Code Advisory Committee. Section 8 rules that no person shall discharge or allow the discharge of a substance into the environment in an amount, concentration or level or at a rate of release that may cause or is causing an adverse effect unless otherwise expressly authorized. The text consists of 110 sections divided into 13 Parts as follows: Short title and interpretation (I); Minister’s Responsibilities and Powers and the State of the Environment Report (II); Unauthorized Discharges and Environmentally Impacted Sites (III); General Rules Respecting Permits, Environmental Protection Plans and Notices (IV); Protection of Water (V); Waste management (VI); Air Quality (VII); General Rules Respecting Orders and Terrorist Activity (VIII); General Matters Respecting Administration, Environment Officer’s Powers and Public Information (IX); Offences, Enforcement and Administrative Penalties (X); General (XI); Regulations (XII); Repeal, Transitional, Consequential and Coming into Force (XIII).
Канада · 2010-01-01