Watchdog says Ottawa hiding pollution figures

Three environmental advocacy groups are seeking a judicial review of the actions of federal Environment Minister John Baird for allegedly counselling mining companies to ignore their legal responsibility to fully report all the pollution they’re responsible for.
Ecojustice filed an application Wednesday in Federal Court on behalf of MiningWatch Canada and Great Lakes United, alleging the government has told mining companies they needn’t report millions of kilograms of pollution to the National Pollutant Release Inventory.
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