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The Environmental Registry ("the Registry") is an online
database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...
where
Ontario government The government of Ontario (french: Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown—represented in the province by the lieutenant governor— ...
ministries publish notices of environmentally significant proposals or decisions, and invite the public to submit their comments. The ministries are obliged under the ''
Environmental Bill of Rights The ''Environmental Bill of Rights'' (EBR) is a provincial law in Ontario, Canada passed in 1993 to provide a bill of rights to Ontario residents for environmental matters. Significantly, it gives Ontario residents the right to participate in en ...
'' to consider these comments when making their final decisions, and every year the
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO; french: Commissaire à l’environnement de l’Ontario) was a non-partisan officer of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario charged with upholding the province's '' Environmental Bill of Rights'' (EBR ...
reports on how well the various ministries used the Registry, including how well they considered the comments they received. It is operated by th
Ministry of the Environment
and is found a
www.ebr.gov.on.ca


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