National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy

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Cleaning up the Past, Building
the Future: A National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy
for Canada

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This strategy is designed to eliminate key barriers to brownfield redevelopment, including lack of access to capital, liability and risk problems, and low stakeholder awareness. The result is a realistic, practical, and innovative blueprint for action that presents a coordinated, comprehensive national approach to cleaning up and redeveloping brownfields in Canada.

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Greening Canada’s Brownfields:

A National Framework for
Encouraging Redevelopment of Qualifying Brownfields through Removal of Crown Liens and Tax Arrears

State of the Debate on the Environment and the Economy: Greening Canada's Brownfield Sites (1998)

Across Canada, thousands of contaminated sites lie abandoned or underutilized, the result of a century of industrialization. Many of these sites have not been identified because of insufficient information on the environmental condition of the land. Although many of these sites are capable of being cleaned up economically and brought into productive use, the rate of clean-up is slow.

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Backgrounder: Contaminated Site Issues in Canada
PDF (22.9 Mb) - 1997

Backgrounder: The Financial Services Sector and Brownfield Redevelopment
PDF (21.5 Mb) - 1997

Backgrounder: Removing Barriers: Redeveloping Contaminated Sites for Housing

PDF (31.4 Mb) - 1997

Backgrounder: Improving Site-Specific Data on the Environmental Condition of Land
PDF (28.3 Mb) - 1997