<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>FYI</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Lulu </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
"regionalcouncillors@regionofwaterloo.ca" <regionalcouncillors@regionofwaterloo.ca>; BRENDA HALLORAN <bhalloran@rogers.com>; "Karen.Scian@waterloo.ca" <Karen.Scian@waterloo.ca>; "diane.freeman@waterloo.ca" <diane.freeman@waterloo.ca>; "Mark.Whaley@waterloo.ca" <Mark.Whaley@waterloo.ca>; "angela.vieth@waterloo.ca" <angela.vieth@waterloo.ca>; "jeff.henry@waterloo.ca" <jeff.henry@waterloo.ca>; "melissa.durrell@waterloo.ca" <melissa.durrell@waterloo.ca>; "scott.witmer@waterloo.ca" <scott.witmer@waterloo.ca>; "DRoewade@regionofwaterloo.ca" <DRoewade@regionofwaterloo.ca>; "EHodgins@regionofwaterloo.ca" <EHodgins@regionofwaterloo.ca>; "cgosselin@regionofwaterloo.ca" <cgosselin@regionofwaterloo.ca>; "keby@regionofwaterloo.ca" <keby@regionofwaterloo.ca>; "newsroom@therecord.com" <newsroom@therecord.com>; BobVrbanac <BVrbanac@waterloochronicle.ca> <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:12:47 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Environmental Commissioner's Climate Change report<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv9240244864"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="yiv9240244864" style=""><span style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-size:16px;line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Dear Hon. Council Members, members of the press as well. </span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(41, 47,
51);font-size:16px;line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864"><br>I am so proud of our community right now. </span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-size:16px;
line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864"><br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-size:16px;line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">The Ontario Environmental Commissioner (ECO) report: "Looking For Leadership - The Costs of Climate Inaction" is now on-line at this link: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://eco.on.ca/" class="yiv9240244864" style="">http://eco.on.ca/</a></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">First off, I'd like to give my sincere
thanks to City and Regional staff and Councils for their outstanding innovation and leadership in leading the way to programs to reduce storm water runoff. This was highlighted in the report as an example to assist other communities to help fund infrastructure upgrades for their storm water systems. I am so proud to come from a community who creates such tools like this for others to work with. This is a legacy our council and community can be very proud of. Such systems will not only save many dollars for taxpayers but it will very likely save lives and property as well. Thank you so much for leading the way on such an important initiative. <br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41,
47, 51);font-size:16px;font-family:'Gotham Narrow
SSm', sans-serif, Arial;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;">I have created a brief list of highlights taken from this report for your information as a quick reference. </div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864"><br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;"
class="yiv9240244864">Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates 40 years storms are now
predicted to occur every 6 years. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">2013 due to catastrophic weather totaled $3.2 billion across Canada. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Insurance Bureau of Canada: Toronto flood July 2013 cost $940 million: Ontario's most expensive
natural disaster. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Year-end losses in 2013 due to catastrophic weather in totaled $3.2 billion across Canada </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">70% of Ontario’s housing was built before 1990, the year that energy efficiency requirements
were introduced. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Spray polyurethane & polystyrene foam insulation generates so much green house gases. Just 50% of the gas released by this product negates all benefits of use.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:22px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">GHG emissions
associated with electricity production in Ontario declined 43% per cent by 2012 . </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;" class="yiv9240244864">-Partially offsetting these reductions, however, has </span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;" class="yiv9240244864">been the 24 per cent increase in emissions from the transportation </span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;" class="yiv9240244864">sector since 1990</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;" class="yiv9240244864">-It appears </span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Can. Fed Gov't has been oddly augmenting the results of true Green House Gas studies. For example, one
Industrial complex had it's emissions categorized under electricity use than later on this same i</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">dustrial facility had their emissions allocated to the iron and steel sector in the 2013 reports.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-the </span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">ECO wants Ontario-specific GHG inventory with all its assumptions and methodology clearly documented.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"
class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;
white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Can Fed. Gov't standard for natural gas-fired turbines & boilers is to be in effect by July 2015 however to date there is no published data yet. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Undisturbed forests can store up to 7x's the carbon as the above-ground forest biomass. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"
class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Once disturbed, forest soils can lose up to 50% of their carbon content. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">The use of forest biomass to generate electricity contributes to tipping point – we simply cannot afford. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"
class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Eco report speaks of soil health and how
healthy microbes increase carbon sequestering potential. (pesticide use can impact)</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Property insurance claims in Canada were mainly fires in the past. Today it's high winds and flooding. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Insurance is
adapting to climate change but will do so in a manner that will not increase premiums.
Strategies to achieve this means issues such as wet basements may not be covered. More homes will be uninsurable due to floods. (What are the potential impacts to our existing municipal facilities?)</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Ontario municipalities face $6.8 billion deficit for repair & replacement of storm water infrastructure.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"
class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-Waterloo Region's impervious surface fees was used as an example of how communities can recover funds to pay for storm water management.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-Waterloo Region was recognized for it's programs to credit home owners and businesses who reduce runoff or improve water quality via rainbarrels and green roofs. <br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">In Ontario there is no clear lead ministry responsible for addressing urban flooding. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Upstream areas of watersheds paved over, increases runoff & may dramatically alter downstream flooding patterns. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">When it comes to climate change: Changing
precipitation patterns are also not reflected in old maps.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Ontario's floodplain maps are outdated – the estimates range from 50 to 80%.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">On average, Ontario’s floodplain maps are 22 years old. Cost to
update them for emergency planning is estimated at $24 million.
</span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="line-height: 32px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864">-Ont. Insurance Agencies call for independent, science-based flood plain mapping: less subject to political influence. <br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color:rgb(41, 47, 51);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yiv9240244864"><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">-</span><span style="line-height:32px;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="yiv9240244864">Ontario can choose to either support proactive planning now or pay disaster relief again and again. </span></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47,
51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864"><br></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864">I encourage staff and council to review the full document to glean further data to help plan the future of our community. This report is a great launching point for us to keep the momentum going on water management issues. It notes various funding opportunities available as well.</span><br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864"><br></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864">Again, I must state how proud I am and how happy I am to see how progressive our municipalities and the GRCA are with the issue of storm water management. Thank you so much for all your work and for creating the planning tools that Canadians need to see to face the challenges of climate change. </span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial;
background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864"><br></span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864">Louisette Lanteigne</span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864">700 Star Flower Ave.</span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color:
transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864">Waterloo Ont.</span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv9240244864">N2V 2L2</span></div><div class="yiv9240244864" style="color: rgb(41, 47, 51); font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;"><br class="yiv9240244864" style=""></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>