CANADA

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CANADAs Environmental Issues
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Environmental Issues

• Acid Rain
• Pollution of Great Lakes
• Extraction and use of Natural resources on
  Canadian Shield
• Timber Industry

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Acid Rain - Problem

• Coal burning factories, cars, and trucks release
  chemicals that pollute the air.
• The growth of industries and cities has caused
  air quality to decline, raising concerns about
  the effects of fossil fuel use and acid rain.

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Acid Rain the Great Lakes

• When chemicals from the factories join with water
  in the clouds, they form acid rain.
• High levels of Acid rain can damage or kill trees
  an pollute lakes enough to kill fish.

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Acid Rain

• Southern Canada experiences the highest levels of
  Acid Rain.
• 50-75 of pollution that actually causes Acid
  rain comes from the US (winds bring the pollution
  north towards Canada).

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Pollution of Great Lakes

• 1970s Great lakes had high levels of water
  pollution.
• Fishing was unsafe animals and plants were being
  killed
• Factories used the lakes as a place to dump waste.

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Canadian Shield

• Large area of thin rocky soil around the Hudson
  Bay.
• Very Important to Canadas economy
• 1.5 million people make their living in the
  mining industry.

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The Canadian Shield
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The Canadian Shield

• The Canadian Shield contains much of Canadas
  mineral wealth, including diamonds.
• Mining is the biggest industry in this area.
• About 85 percent of the nations iron ore comes
  from mines near the Quebec- Newfoundland border.
• The Canadian Shield has large deposits of gold,
  silver, zinc, copper, and uranium.

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Extraction and use of Resources on Canadian
Shield

• Blasting and digging with heavy machinery causes
  the land around mines to be damaged and
  environment ruined.
• Mining processes releases harmful chemicals into
  the air which causes Acid Rain.

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Solution to Extraction of Resources

• Canadas government has made new rules
• Reduce amount of mining allowed in the shield
• Reduce exports of raw materials, but focus on
  manufactured goods like cars.

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Canadas Timber Resources

• With almost half its land covered in forests,
  Canada is a leading producer of timber products.
• These products include lumber, paper, plywood,
  and wood pulp.
• The major timber producing provinces include
  British Columbia, Quebec, and Ontario.

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Timber Solution

• Government and Industry are working together to
  manage use of the forest
• Hundreds of
• When too many of these raw materials are removed
  or extracted from the environment, it hurts the
  environment permanently.
• Historical and current over-extraction of
  minerals and timber has threatened the future of
  available resources.