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Jan 13th, 2017
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The pledge from the Ministry of the Environment came after the Star and Earthroots volunteers took soil samples from behind a paper mill in Dryden, Ont., which revealed elevated mercury levels By DAVID BRUSER and JAYME POISSON Toronto Star The province vows to “carefully review” new test results show...
Jan 13th, 2017
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Dryden area: Red circles indicate where worker says he dumped mercury. Star reporters and volunteers from Earthroots took soil samples from behind an old paper mill, 100 kilometres upstream from Grassy Narrows, which revealed significantly elevated levels of mercury By JAYME POISSON and DAVID BRUSER ...
Jan 12th, 2017
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Rick Webster Letter to Springwater News from Lorraine French, Grenfel I am responding to former Councillor Webster who coins himself “Old Crony” who, aside from his caustic writing style in his December 29th article, has included a number of distortions of fact. I have wanted to write a letter a numb...
Jan 12th, 2017
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eBlast to Co-ordinated Review stakeholders from Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Mauro I am writing to let you know that today the government opened a public consultation on proposed minor changes to the Greenbelt’s boundary, as set out in O. Reg. 59/05 and the Greenbelt Plan and is interested in hear...
Jan 12th, 2017
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Mayor Bill French’s column in the Springwater News A look back at 2016 I am quite proud of the accomplishments, new initiatives and challenges our Council experienced over the past year. If you have had a chance to come to a Council Meeting or watch us on line, you will have seen very active an...
Jan 11th, 2017
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from Jack Gibbons North Gwillimbury ForestAlliance Today Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, Bill Mauro, said “no” to the DG Group’s request for permission to build a subdivision on prime farmlands in the Greenbelt between Deer Park and Boyers Roads in the Town of Georgina. DG Group was seeking ...
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Jan 10th, 2017
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I’ve spent some time thinking about the Freele Tract recently, as I considered a response to the questionnaire the Rainforest Alliance is asking community members and stakeholders to answer. This is part of the process of evaluating  the County of Simcoe’s decision to locate its organics ...
Jan 9th, 2017
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Council rejects deal to sell developer NTRC naming rights, but it’s still for sale New Tecumseth Free Press January 10 2017 Councillors last night turned down an offer of $1 million over 10 years from the FLATO development group for naming rights of the New Tecumseth Recreation Centre (NTRC). F...
Jan 8th, 2017
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AWARE Simcoe note: We fought to get the Nottawasaga River included in the Navigation Protection Act – and we won. But the NPA does not protect our waters in the way the ancient Navigable Waters Protection Act did, so we support this campaign for a return to meaningful legislation to preserve Ca...
Jan 4th, 2017
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Residents urged to fill out questionnaire to assist in audit of county operation RAINFOREST ALLIANCE PUBLIC MEETING January 17, 2017 7pm to 9pm Elmvale Community Hall (33 Queen St. W.) from the Rainforest Alliance Rainforest Alliance is undertaking a conformance verification audit to evaluate the pro...