Demolition & Remediation Plan Review When the Brookfield site was to be remediated, the MOE were the prime approving agency and they hired an independent consulting company (Monenco) to be on-site at all times work was progressing to give independent reports on progress, violations, etc. For this project the Ministry of the Environment is not the approving agency, but undertook a review of the proponent's plans. The Ministry opinion was that 'plans appear reasonable for environmental protection based on the information supplied ' To see just what the MOE had to say,  click here  With the Ministry of the Environment no longer acting as an approving agency for the demolition and remediation project, the City of Toronto agreed to hire an independent expert to review the plans and processes which Penfund proposed for the project.  Click here to read the Terms of Reference for the Peer Reviewer  Along with the other community associations, CCRA representatives attended a meeting in early September with the Peer Reviewer. A number of concerns were raised about these plans. The concerns were reported in  CCRA Planning reports  and detailed exhaustively in a letter from the CCRA Environment Chair to the City's Peer Reviewer. To read that letter -  click here  At the Open House, many of the community concerns related to air monitoring and the potential for airborne asbestos to be carried off the site into the community. For more information -  click here . As well, a large number of questions went unanswered.   What were they?  And, on November 18 the Peer Reviewer's Draft Report was made public. To see a review of his report,  click here  Note: to understand why the MOE approved the remediation of the west end of the old Johns-Manville site but the MOE reviewed the remediation for the east end of the old Johns-Manville site, you should contact either the MOE or your provincial MP who will explain the changes in legislation affecting sites like Johns-Manville. In mid-2000, the new project team took over the work. That project team committed to: lowering roof slabs to the ground instead of dropping them. that dust emissions off the site was an unreasonable criterion for work stoppage, and that the new project team's criterion was no dust emissions at the point of work. .... both things that the CCRA had requested as reasonable improvements to the old plan, and all things that the Peer Reviewer declined to recommend and the City declined to recommend. Candec also made other improvements to the demolition and remediation plan. Read about an informal meeting with Candec - the new consultants overseeing the demolition and clean-up works.