A handful of local politicians — including Mayor Larry O’Brien — has received failing grades from Ecology Ottawa for impeding environmental progress, the group said yesterday.
Ecology Ottawa, which released its annual report card on the environmental performance of Ottawa’s mayor and city councillors yesterday, awarded seven council members a grade of D or lower.
The report — which reviews 14 key environmental decisions made by council over the past year and assigns a grade to the mayor and each councillor based on the votes he or she cast — gave O’Brien and councillors Steve Desroches, Eli El-Chantiry, Jan Harder, Gord Hunter and Doug Thompson a D or F.
“Looking over the record since 2002, we can see several councillors emerging as stubborn impediments to environmental progress,” the report stated.
Scoring a B or higher, the environmental leaders were councillors Michel Bellemare, Georges Bédard, Alex Cullen, Clive Doucet, Diane Holmes, Peter Hume, Jacques Legendre, and Christine Leadman.
“If we want a sustainable future, we must demand environmental leadership at the municipal level,” said Ecology Ottawa chairman Graham Saul.
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