Simcoe County waste management staff are struggling to find ways to increase waste diversion rates from the current 60% to reach the target of 71% by 2020. The struggle isn’t so much with how to do it as it is to persuade their bosses, County Council, ...

From Protect Wasaga Beach Wetlands (residents’ group) THE ISSUE. Proposal to amend the Official Plan of the Town of Wasaga Beach thus laying the groundwork for a Developer to build up to 156 Townhouse units on lands designated Provincially Signif...

News release from AWARE Simcoe Simcoe County should not be acting as an agent for a developer in pursuing a costs award, a spokesperson for AWARE Simcoe says. “AWARE Simcoe believes it is totally inappropriate for County lawyer Marshall Green to be rep...

Welcome Autumn…Critical Developments Await From Save Midhurst Village – Midhurst Ratepayers Association As Margaret Atwood told us, it is important for us to keep pushing that rock further up the hill. Each day we get closer. We’ve ha...

Simcoe County proposal would see garbage left behind if green bin isn’t curbside CTV Barrie Simcoe County waste management staff is considering an unconventional way of getting people to use their organic bins. Waste management director Rob McCullough ...

By Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press TORONTO — A small but fast growing Ontario community looking for a safe drinking water supply has been outbid in its attempt to buy a well by multinational giant Nestle, which acquired the site to ensure “...

  New Tecumseth Free Press The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority’s (NVCA) pilot project which was to reduce the size of its board of directors from 27 to 18 is at an end this month, and in its place is a move to make it permanent. Th...

By Barry G. Warner Waterloo Region Record In early August, the Ontario government issued a draft for a new wetland conservation strategy for the province. It contains many positive elements, not the least of which is the government’s ongoing reco...

Major salmon migration event includes nature walk with conservation experts, gourmet meal, FREE kids lunch and entertainment From the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust is holding a major event in Collingwood from 10am to 3...

By Cheryl Browne, Barrie Examiner It isn’t easy being green. But the lone protestor at the Simcoe County Museum railing at the county’s choice of placement for its new Organics Processing Facility (OPF) and Materials Management Facility (MMF) didn’t mi...