Manitoba gets 'F' grade on Green provinces report card
4/22/2009 at 10:34 AM
Per the link below, Manitoba ranked 9th out of 13th Canadian provinces/territories on the "Canada's First Green Provincial Report Card". We were also the lowest ranked of anyone West of Quebec.
Some of the areas we took a hit in that led to the ranking:
- % of workforce made up of environmental employees (tied with Sask for worst at 2.3%)
- We had the lowest organic food consumption (0.32%, again tied with Sask)
- "toxicity".. basically the amount of toxics released into the air compared to our GDP
We did do quite well in the "Energy" category.
You can read the full report here:
http://static.corporateknights.ca/Green_Provincial_Report.pdf