You can join the NEC’s virtual meeting on a project it denied five years ago that threatens streams, slopes and wetlands From the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation The Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC) is holding a virtual meeting on Oct...

Ontario government news release Ontario is kicking off Waste Reduction Week by unveiling regulations to improve the blue box program. The enhancements include expanding the items that can be recycled and making producers of products and packaging fully...

AWARE News Network Today opponents of the County of Simcoe’s proposal to build a waste facility in the Freele County Forest filed a legal challenge in their fight against the County’s plan. The Friends of Simcoe Forests Inc. filed a Notice of Applicati...

Nearly 3,700 people have signed a petition By Chris Simon Barrie Advance Michelle Lackey may lose her home’s biggest selling feature. The Barrie resident moved into her Loon Avenue dream house in June. The backyard has a pool and it overlooks part of a...

Unprecedented energy use since 1950 transformed our planetary environment and humanity’s geologic footprint AWARE Simcoe note: William Shotyk, Bocock Chair for Agriculture and the Environment at the University of Alberta, is one of 18 co-authors of a p...

By Janis Ramsay Simcoe.com After several months of red tape, the county is moving ahead with site plans for its composting facility. Plans for the Environmental Resource Recovery Centre, at 2976 Horseshoe Valley Road W., were on hold after the county r...

Futuristic rendition of high density development around the GO Train station at the centre of the Orbit. First phase of the Line 6 project could add 7,000 dwelling units and 20,000 people to the town By: Miriam King Barrie Today Innisfil town council h...

Public engagement could be ‘really difficult’ as county moves toward its zero-waste goal By: Bob Bruton Barrie Today Editor’s note: Because Barrie is a separated city, the County of Simcoe does not handle waste collection for Barrie r...

Prairie Smoke in the Cedarhurst Alvar – William McIntyre photo New conservation area worth $10 million dollars a year in ecosystem goods and services News release from Nature Conservancy of Canada The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and the Co...

Ontario  Nature News Release On Thursday October 8th, York Region Council will hold a vote on a proposal to request that the provincial government open the Greenbelt to development. If passed by Council, it will seek permission to prepare a municipal p...