Community Safety - Who Takes Responsibility?

So far, residents have contacted the Ministry of Community Safety, the Ministry of the Environment, our local, provincial, federal politicians, along with city officials from licensing and standards and fire officials. We are still looking for someone to step up to the plate to take specific measures and assume responsibility for the safety of our community.

The following responses have been received so far from the Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services. We await further response from other parties.

From Ministry of the Environment:
Thank you for your e-mail.
The matter is currently under investigation by the ministry’s Investigation and Enforcement Branch

From Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services:
You raise a valid safety concern, and the ministry appreciates your taking the time to write about it. As the matter you raise falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment, you may wish to send your concerns directly to that ministry via its website contact page at http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/contact/index.php.
I trust this is helpful.


Below is from a section of the Ministry of the Environment's Environmental Protection Act (EPA)...with YES marked where applicaple to an explosion with flying debris (propane tank and bits of burning debris)

NOISE & VIBRATION IS CONSIDERED A CONTAMINENT
From EPA
Interpretation
1. (1) In this Act,
"adverse effect" means one or more of,
(a) impairment of the quality of the natural environment for any use that can be made of it, YES
(b) injury or damage to property or to plant or animal life, YES
(c) harm or material discomfort to any person, YES
(d) an adverse effect on the health of any person, YES
(e) impairment of the safety of any person, YES
(f) rendering any property or plant or animal life unfit for human use,
(g) loss of enjoyment of normal use of property, and YES
(h) interference with the normal conduct of business; YES

"contaminant" means any solid, liquid, gas, odour, heat, sound, vibration, radiation or combination of any of them resulting directly or indirectly from human activities that causes or may cause an adverse effect; ("contaminant")