News release from ECO Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner, Dianne Saxe, is calling for the provincial government to take strong steps to foster healthier agricultural soils and a more sustainable farming sector, in preparation for climate change. The Commissioner’s technical report, Putting Soil Hea...
Proposed policy is a recipe for inaction and delay from Ontario Nature Prior to the 2014 provincial election, Premier Kathleen Wynne pledged to reverse wetland loss by 2025. Accordingly, the Province has proposed a new wetland conservation strategy, which is open for public comment until November 16,...
By Gisele Winton Sarvis Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin Due to onshore winds, the sediment has filled in to the point where you can hop across the opening and it’s only two-feet deep, reported Kevin Lalonde, director of public works to the Committee of the Whole. Lalonde approached committee looking ...
From the Huronia Land Conservancy Huronia Land Conservancy, your local land trust is thrilled to announce our first nature reserve! This generous donation of 43 acres from a local family, includes a provincially significant wetland that will be protected in perpetuity for the greater good of North S...
County of Simcoe statutory notice Notice of Requested Allocation 20,000 Population Program – Town of Wasaga Beach and Town of Innisfil Issued: November 1, 2016 TAKE NOTICE that a Request for population allocation within the County of Simcoe 20,000 population program has been received by: -Wasag...
Protect Wasaga Beach Wetlands against Development from Concerned Citizens of Wasaga Beach — November 8 2016 TOWN COUNCIL CHOOSES DEVELOPMENT OVER WETLANDS On September 27th, 2016, Wasaga Beach Town Council was packed with residents concerned about proposed development on the Wasaga Beach Wetlan...
Just When You Thought Life Wasn’t Fair OSSTF District 17 presents a film and discussion evening on Fair Trade Film: The Dark Side of Chocolate A 2010 documentary about the exploitation and slave-trading of African children to harvest chocolate which was still occurring ten years after the cocoa indus...
Becky BigCanoe, Bob Bowles, Bernard Pope and Nancy McBride AWARE Simcoe alert We need to grow the Greenbelt to protect our precious water resources in Simcoe County. The health and viability of groundwater, watersheds and wetlands are all under threat from out-of-control sprawl. Those who attended th...
Updated AWARE Network News The Ontario Municipal Board hearing into the bonus Chiarelli population allocations to be deployed in Springwater came to an abrupt end today, after Simcoe County lawyers presented a letter detailing an agreement reached with the Township of Springwater. They noted that nei...
By Bob Bruton Barrie Examiner SPRINGWATER TWP. – Clarification of local controls on future Midhurst development has led to an agreement between the township and Simcoe County council. The two levels of government had been at odds after the county announced earlier this month it had reached a de...
Powered By
