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Environment Probe champions the use of property rights, markets, and decentralized decision making to empower individuals and communities to protect the environment. |
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The convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) |
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What's New
01/01/2010 In the January/February 2010 issue of Water Canada, Elizabeth Brubaker writes: Canada's municipal utilities are in trouble, and it seems increasingly unlikely that the provinces will bail them out. Federal aid seems equally unlikely, given the finance minister's warnings that there will be no major new spending initiatives in the 2010 budget. But our utilities need not despair. Although public money may be scarce, private investment and pricing reforms can provide sustainable solutions to the problems they face. read more » |
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12/01/2009 Environment Probe turned 20 this year. To our surprise and delight, we also learned this year that our foundation maintains Canada's most popular environmental web site. The reason, we suspect, is that the public doesn't like top-down environmentalism, and we have the field of community-based, market-oriented environmentalism pretty well to ourselves. read more » |
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11/04/2009 In this presentation to mayors and chief administrative officers of Alberta municipalities, Elizabeth Brubaker describes the challenges facing Alberta's water providers: Many water systems perform poorly, many face growing water shortages, and all are operating in an ever more difficult regulatory environment. Brubaker advises municipalities to price their water right, invest in their systems, get experts to operate them, and hold the operators accountable for their performance. read more » |
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10/19/2009 In this presentation to a conference on Infrastructure Renewal held in Toronto in October 2009, Elizabeth Brubaker discusses Ontario's water and wastewater problems, including poorly performing utilities, unmet capital needs, and underpriced services. read more » |
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10/02/2009 Environment Probe's comments on Stewardship, Leadership, Accountability: Safeguarding and Sustaining Ontario's Water Resources for Future Generations, a Proposal Paper presented by Ontario Minister of the Environment John Gerretsen and Ontario Minister of Natural Resources Donna Cansfield. read more » |
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