Ontario government postpones environmental legislation News release - Zero Waste Simcoe - June 24 2010 --Legislation created by Ontario Minister of the Environment, which planned to revise Ontario’s Waste Diversion Act, and which was ready for parliame...

By Guy Crittenden Solid Waste and Recyling Magazine June 14 2010In May an argument resurfaced between the Composting Council of Canada (CCC) and Stewardship Ontario (SO) over the definition of compost as a fertilizer and negative implications from its ...

By Guy Crittenden Solid Waste Recycling Magazine June 21 2010Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government in Ontario has capitulated to lobby pressure from regulated industry and postponed (possibly permanently) one of the most important pieces of constructive...

AWARE Simcoe — Tomorrow (Thursday) at 7 p.m., there is a special meeting of county council to discuss a consultant’s report on governance. What is happening here is totally under the radar because there has been no media coverage of this is...

By RAYMOND BOWE Barrie Examiner June 23 2010Several county councillors took exception to a comment made by Ramara Township Mayor Bill Duffy that people on welfare who can physically work should "get out and get a job." ...

By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe June 23 2010The county’s waste strategy steering committee endorsed a waste strategy presented yesterday by Janine Ralph, of Stantec, that aims for a 77 per cent diversion rate by 2030  – but it wasn’t unanimous, and Zero W...

By RAYMOND BOWE Barrie Examiner June 23 2010  Depending on what Simcoe County councillors want to spend, the amount of waste not going into area landfills could reach as high as 77%. ...

By RAYMOND BOWE Barrie Examiner June 23 2010How much could a partially developed garbage dump fetch on the open market? ...

SDS41 -- June 22 2010 -- Slowly, Simcoe County is moving to sell Site 41. ...

County council retained the Berkely Consulting Group to look at such questions as – do county councillors get paid enough? should there be changes to the composition and form of election of county councillors? what to do about engaging the public...