By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Plans to dredge the Nottawasaga River are moving ahead. On Thursday, Wasaga Beach council’s coordinated committee received an update on the environmental assessment process that would give the municipality the tool it needed should it decide to go ahead with dredging certain p...
By Jenni Dunning Barrie Advance An Oro-Medonte facility that stores biosolids from Barrie’s wastewater treatment plant may be affecting groundwater, according to a 2015 performance report. The Oro Biosolids Storage Facility on Line 7 north of the Lake Simcoe Regional Airport can house up to 61,500 sq...
By Gisele Winton Sarvis Barrie Examiner Christian Island’s 800 residents have no way to transport vehicles and heavy goods now that its car-carrying ferry the M.V. Sandy Graham has been taken out of service. Transport Canada deemed the ferry unsafe May 7. During testing, it no longer met safety requi...
Water, Indigenous rights, Justice for Mercury Survivors From River Run 2016 Thursday, June 2, 12pm, Queen’s Park — Join us for a massive arts-based action to ensure real answers from the provincial government! Over 40 years ago, people in Grassy Narrows were poisoned by mercury from a paper mil...
Studying a tragedy to death won’t safeguard our drinking water, nor save lives, without political will. By Martin Regg Cohn Toronto Star Sixteen years ago this month, water contamination at Walkerton left seven people dead and nearly 2,400 residents — half the town — seriously ill. As that disaster f...
Mayor says council ‘confused’ over nature of motion By Ian Burns Midland Mirror Tempers flared at a Penetanguishene council meeting May 11 when members of council accused Mayor Gerry Marshall of “misleading” the public on the Main Street redevelopment. Coun. Dan LaRose read a letter on behalf of a m...
From the Springwater Township website The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe provides the County of Simcoe with an additional 20,000 people to allocate to area municipalities. As a result of this, the County Official Plan was amended to provide the opportunity for municipalities and develop...
Text of Report CCW 16-189 – Applications for a Portion of the 20,000 Population Program – Midhurst Requests From Simcoe County website – link to agenda, scroll down to item 14 To: HEARING – 20,000 Population Program Meeting Date: May 24, 2016 Subject: Applications for a Portion of t...
Legal team prepares County Council for hearing about future by Catherine Thompson Bayshore Broadcasting Simcoe County Councillors are getting ready for a hearing in just a couple weeks. The county’s senior legal counsel gave councillors some tips on how to conduct themselves at a hearing on May...
Response to Crombie report suggests protection of 21 valley, 7 wetlands, setting strict requirements for expansion of urban areas News release from Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ontario is proposing changes to four provincial plans that shape how land is used in the Greater Golden Horses...
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