By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The developer of a proposed wind turbine project north of County Road 91 hopes for answers in 2015. WPD Canada’s proposal to erect eight 450-foot-tall wind turbines west of Stayner was presented to the public in 2010. This past summer, the company reached the point when ...
By David Suzuki I recently travelled across Canada with David Suzuki Foundation staff, from St. John’s to Victoria and up to Yellowknife, joined by friends and allies along the way. Besides our Blue Dot Tour evening events featuring some of Canada’s best-known musicians, writers, artists ...
National Farmers Union report of Dec. 18 2014 meeting by Ann Slater, National Farmers Union Vice President (Policy) On December 18, 2014 the National Farmers Union sent two representatives to the Agricultural Stakeholder Engagement meeting on the Ontario government’s Pollinator Health proposal....
Long-delayed project still within $28-million budget, says official By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – The long-awaited sewage treatment plant in Penetanguishene is expected to be fully completed in May or June, according to town staff. Discussion about the plant, the plans for which h...
Grain Farmers of Ontario Delivers United Message to Minister Leal News release from Grain Farmers of Ontario Grain Farmers of Ontario’s commitment to pollinator health and environment stewardship is unyielding. The farm sector will be at the table with government to secure a future for Ontario’s fami...
By John Bacher Niagara at Large Tragically few seem to appreciate the wonders of our relatively well ecologically restored landscape around the eastern edge of Lake Ontario where most of the province’s population lives. In the 1950s, part of what is now the core of Ontario’s Greenbelt, the Oak Ridges...
By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald NEW TECUMSETH – A rural New Tecumseth landowner’s proposal to truck thousands of loads of fill to rehabilitate a property for a fruit farm is raising red flags with his neighbours. A planning consultant representing Stan Sneig, owner of the property located at ...
Report from Day 1 of the hearing By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press TORONTO — An expert tribunal was entitled to conclude a proposed wind farm would devastate a population of already threatened turtles, Ontario’s top court heard Monday. The case, which pits turtles against turbines, coul...
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