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Severn Sound Environmental Association

Dec 1st, 2022
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By Graeme McNaughton From Guelph Mercury Tribune Tue., Nov. 29, 2022 Schreiner has filed an official complaint with integrity commissioner for ‘what seems to be pretty suspicious benefits flowing to a handful of speculators who also happen to be significant donors’ to PC Party Premier Dou...
Apr 21st, 2022
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Aisha Chiandet, a water scientist with the Severn Sound Environmental Association, uses a variety of devices to monitor water quality. A Secchi disk (pictured) is a standard tool used to measure water clarity. – Andrew Mendler/Metroland From Simcoe.com, April 19, 2022 By Andrew Mendler Rising w...
Jun 15th, 2021
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David Hawke has won the Richards Education Award from Ontario Nature From Orillia Matters June 15 2021 By Nathan Taylor ‘My way is to let everyone know why these protesters are protesting. If they are not aware, they don’t get it and they won’t care,’ says David Hawke A longtime outdoors ...
Dec 7th, 2020
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Duffins Creek – Environmental groups sue to keep Ontario wetlands protected New partnerships will help protect Great Lakes and support municipalities with stormwater management   News release from the Ontario government The Ontario government is providing $30 million to help conservation o...
Jul 27th, 2020
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From Andrew McCammon Ontario Headwaters Institute  The Ontario government continues its unparalleled and cynical assault on environmental protection and democratic norms. Its most recent effort was Bill 197, the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act (2020), which had virtually nothing to do with COVID nor a...
Feb 17th, 2020
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by Ian Adams Wasaga Sun  Feb 15, 2020 Sand washing down the St. Clair River is acting as a slurry, restricting the flow from Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. That could be one reason why the two middle lakes are reaching a “crisis high” condition, Mary Muter told the Wasaga Beach Men’s Probus Club durin...
Jan 15th, 2020
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Nina Bifolchi Staff will look into storm-water management, legal services, transit, water and wastewater to find efficiencies as part of regional governance review By: Jessica Owen Orillia Matters While the province’s regional governance review fizzled out, the County of Simcoe is still looking at wa...
Aug 5th, 2019
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Today we have almost enough forests and wetlands to buffer the watershed from the impacts of climate change and the stress of phosphorus pollution. But we are losing, not gaining, forests and wetlands. Stronger, strategic protections needed in Simcoe County, report shows News release from Rescue Lake...
Jul 28th, 2019
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Celia Fox, right, of Newmarket chats with Water Protectors Erin Archer and Lynne Gibson yesterday before signing the petition to protect the water. -AWARE Simcoe photo AWARE News Network It’s busy at the flow (the Water Kiosk on Highway 27 north of Elmvale). The purest groundwater ever tested, ...
Jul 17th, 2019
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End of the road? Canada’s nature emergency News release from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society In advance of Canada Parks Day, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is welcoming Canada’s efforts to meet our 2020 land protection commitments and urging the federal government t...