ENGO Survey: Assessing Accessibility and Usability of Canada’s National

Some of the NPRI’s valuable features are: 1) it provides the public with facility-specific data for each pollutant; 2) the data is reported by each polluter annually; 3) the polluters are required by law to report and can be charged if they fail to do so; and 4) the data is available to the public through the NPRI website. [...] For those who have used NPRI, the survey will lead you to a different set of questions.” We wanted to hear from non-users of the NPRI to gain some understanding of why they don’t use the system and their thoughts on what could be done to get them involved in the NPRI. [...] As we pointed out in the Introduction, the people we reached out to with our survey were much more likely than the average person to know of or use NPRI, so the numbers below should not be interpreted as being similar to the data for the country as a whole. [...] 26 Tracking a particular substance as to the facilities reporting in current year and in past years In addition to their filing with NPRI, companies should be required to issue a news release to media serving the greater communities and surrounding areas in which the pollutants are located the contents of their filings and a link to the registry. [...] The only industry of the same kind that I could find on the NPRI was in Saskatchewan, and when I looked at their listed outputs, it didn't tell me a lot about what the outputs would mean to anyone nearby or down wind of the site.