SEI Seminar Series - Serving The Public: Visit from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario


December 6th: SEI Seminar Series Event:

Serving The Public: Visit from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

Join York's Sustainable Energy Initiative on Friday Dec. 6th from 11:30am-1:30pm at York University's Keele campus in 140 HNES Building, for a presentation by Ontario's Environmental Commissioner, Gord Miller, followed by a Q & A session.  Peter Love will be moderating this event and light refreshments and hor d'oeuvres will be served.

This event is free and all are welcome!  Please RSVP to tarob@yorku.ca.

Gord Miller
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

Gord Miller will visit the faculty to talk about the newly released annual report titled, Serving the Public (2012/13), which will be followed by a Q & A session.

Gord Miller was first sworn in as the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario on January 31, 2000, to oversee the continued implementation of the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) .  As an independent officer appointed by the Legislative Assembly, Commissioner Miller oversees 14 ministries and monitors and reports annually on:

  •         Government compliance with the provisions of the EBR
  •         Government progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  •         Activities in Ontario to reduce the use or make more efficient use of electricity, natural gas, propane, oil and transportation fuels.

In 2010 he was re-appointed to his third five-year term as Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.