Related Links

Some of the following hyperlinks are to sites of organizations or other entities that are not subject to the Official Languages Act. The material found there is therefore in the language(s) used by the sites in question.

Environment Canada

CEPA Registry

References on PCBs (EC Library – Inquiry Centre)

Environment Canada's Management of Toxic Substances Web Site (Chlorobiphenyls - Toxic substances)

Other Government Departments

Fact sheet on PCBs in "It's your Health" Series, Health and Environment Handbook (Health Canada)

Transport of Dangerous Good (TDG) Regulations (see PCB, Transport Canada)

Other Organizations

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) under the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP).

United Nations Environment Programme Stockholm Convention : Internationally legally binding instrument for implementing international action on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Basel Convention International legally binding instrument on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

• General Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Wastes Consisting of, Containing or Contaminated with Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Wastes Consisting of, Containing or Contaminated with Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Polychlorinated Terphenyls (PCTs) or Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBBs)
• Guidelines for the identification of PCBs and Materials containing PCBs - UNEP Chemicals (1999)

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation Commission for Environmental Cooperation:

• North American Regional Action Plan on PCBs (NARAP)
• NARAP Info sheet

United States of America

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PCB Website
• EPA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy

 

Provincial and Territorial Web Sites

• Alberta Environment
• British Columbia Ministry of Environment
• Manitoba Conservation - Pollution Prevention Branch
• New Brunswick Department of Environment
• Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Environment and Conservation
• Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour
• Nunavut Department of Environment
• Ontario Ministry of the Environment
• Prince Edward Island Department of Environment, Energy and Forestry
• Quebec Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks
• Saskatchewan Environment
• Yukon Environment