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Written by Mike Davey
Thursday, 09 July 2009
GATINEAU, QUEBEC — July 9, 2009 –
The word is now official. The new regulations governing automotive refinish products, Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Concentration Limits for Automotive Refinishing Products Regulations, have been published in Canada Gazette Part II.
The regulations will come into force on June 18, 2010, one year after being registered with the Clerk of the Privy Council. There will also be an additional six-month sell-through period after that date. In other words, no sales of non-compliant materials will be permitted after December 18, 2010. As outlined in Canada Gazette Part II:
“The sell-through period is intended to provide the industry with time to sell automotive refinishing products manufactured or imported and to provide sufficient time to all repair shops to transition to low VOC automobile refinishing products prior to the coming into force date as set out in the Regulations. This change is expected to allow automotive repair shops adequate time to convert their equipment to use low VOC automotive refinishing products.
These revisions to the coming into force dates of the Regulations have been made in response to comments from industry.”
“The Government of Canada is serious about cleaning up the air to protect the environment and health of Canadians, “said Canada’s Environment Minister, Jim Prentice. “This is one of a series of regulations we are putting in place to reduce VOC emissions from everyday consumer and commercial products.”
The regulations are expected to reduce the annual amount of VOCs emitted from automotive refinishing products by an average of 40 percent.
To read Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Concentration Limits for Automotive Refinishing Products Regulations in Canada Gazette Part II, please click here. The original regulations, as published in Canada Gazette Part I, can be found here.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 – Winnipeg Sun
Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
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WINNIPEG—Dean Gunnarson risked drowning a lot more than his sorrows Saturday night.
The world-renowned escape artist was handcuffed and locked in a 240-litre metal drum filled with beer before fans at a bar in his hometown, as part of a fundraising event for local food banks.
The drum spilled over with beer as Gunnarson was immersed in it by helpers. The lid was then chained shut with a combination lock, and a fist-sized hole in the lid was his only route out.
With an emcee working up the crowd and counting the seconds as they passed, the drum started shaking. After two minutes, a hand popped out of the hole in the lid and started frantically working the combination lock. Some 35 seconds later, Gunnarson undid the lock and pushed the lid open.
It was an unusual stunt for a man who doesn’t drink.
“I don’t drink beer. I don’t do drugs or smoke, but I tell you, that (escape) gave me a better high than if I had drank the whole 240 litres of it,” the 46-year-old said afterward.
Gunnarson has made a name for himself by staging unusual stunts — escaping from a phone-booth-sized locker filled with wet cement, dangling upside down in a straitjacket 200 metres above a reservoir at the Hoover Dam, and being thrown from a plane with a parachute while in handcuffs and chains.
The beer, he says, presented some unique challenges.
“My fingers are kind of cold from the beer … and I’ve got beer in my eyes. It was much harder than I thought.”
Gunnarson’s closest brush with real trouble was in 1983, when he failed to get out of a coffin in a Winnipeg river and had to be resuscitated by paramedics.
He said his parents still worry about him, but sometimes for different reasons.
“My Dad was worried that I was wasting all that good beer,” he chuckled. “But my mother, like any mother, is always worried about whatever I do and just said ‘call me when it’s done’.”
The boozy atmosphere of Gunnarson’s escape was aided by some of the actors from the Trailer Park Boys — the Halifax-based television series about a group of perpetually intoxicated residents of a fictional mobile home park.
