Billions of tonnes of topsoil are lost through erosion each year. Toxic chemicals in the environment especially threaten the health of children, the elderly and the urban poor.

The different additional beneficiaries shall be selected randomly from all beneficiaries having land laying fallow, field margins, buffer strips, strips of eligible hectares along forest edges, catch crops and/or green cover declared as ecological focus area and such visits may be limited to the areas declared as land laying fallow, field margins, buffer strips, strips of eligible hectares along forest edges, catch crops and/or green cover.

Research and innovation will provide options for integrating agronomic and environmental goals into sustainable production, thus: increasing productivity and resource efficiency, including water use efficiency, of agriculture; increasing the safety of animal and plant production; reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions; reducing the production of waste; reducing leaching of nutrients and other chemical inputs from cultivated lands into terrestrial and aquatic environments; decreasing dependence from international plant derived protein imports to Europe; increasing the level of diversity in primary production systems; and fo ...[+++]stering the recovery of biological diversity.

In the long term, which Suncor has proved up, these tailings ponds do get filled with sand and sediment and are finally topped off with topsoil and reclaimed as well.

They asked the farmers if their farms could be at risk to the environment in so many ways including water pollution from pesticides; nitrogen runoff; loss of topsoil quality; loss of habitats and wetlands; or, as Mr. Maxwell said, cattle runoff into streams and lakes.

The Chairman: There is plenty of this topsoil.