The Ontario Securities Commission has issued Notice 51-717 Corporate Governance and Environmental Disclosure, which outlines OSC plans to enhance compliance by reporting issuers (other than investment funds) with corporate governance and environmental disclosure requirements. The Notice is part of the OSC’s corporate sustainability reporting initiative.

The OSC is also giving itself a year to develop guidance for issuers, after consulting stakeholders, on compliance with environmental disclosure requirements set out in National Instrument 51-102. The aim is to publish guidelines by December 2010, so that reporting issuers have enough time to consider it in preparing their 2010 disclosure documents.

Business is about making choices so successful business owners understand how to measure risks when required to decide between two options. Weighing $3,500 against $20,000 is a no brainer. By Isaac Rudik at Compliance Solutions Canada – A Nimonik Affiliate

For as long as there have been poorly-done cop shows on television, bad guys have been getting caught because they make a stupid mistake. Whether robbers, killers, con artists or polluters, the typical plot twist leading to their arrest just before the closing credits roll involves them doing something idiotic, careless, forgetful or lackadaisical.

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When the writers toss greedy and penny-pinching crooks into the story, the episode takes on the feel of a Marx Brother’s movie.

Actually, if you put these ingredients together in one episode, it’s likely that producers would toss the writers and their script out the window for offering up a tale that is too far-fetched, improbable and unbelievable – even for television.

Yet not long ago, just such an implausible story line played out in real life in Ontario, where a trio of penny-pinching, not-too-bright polluters got caught in the act of dumping toxic waste in an open field in broad daylight. And while theirs is a tale of ineptitude and sheer idiocy, it shows that when it comes to disposing of pollutants, being penny wise and pound foolish brings hefty fines far more expensive than what it would have cost to dispose of the material properly.

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The American Environmental Protection Agency has just released its most wanted list, now it is looking for help to capture these environmental criminals. This is no joke.

Where is Canada’s list?