From the Clearview Community Coalition The Niagara Escarpment, an important natural resource for Clearview Township and the Province, is threatened by the pressures of development. CCC member Ruth Grier has stayed on top of the Niagara Escarpment Plan Review. Please read her message, below. You c...
Beeton residents Scott Orr, Carolyn Milne, Stephanie MacLellan and Nicole Cox were among the objectors at a hearing today into a stop work order issued last month to halt the clear cutting of the woodland north of Beeton. After hearing from a dozen objectors as well as lawyers representing pr...
AWARE News Network The following is the text of the AWARE Simcoe presentation to Simcoe County Council at the hearing into whether the stop-work order of the Beeton Woods clear cutting should be lifted. (The hearing is open to the public and all are urged to attend. This is the link to the agenda, wi...
AWARE News Network Just as soon as the NDP brought forward a bill to ban hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in Ontario, Liberal Natural Resources Minister Bill Mauro dismissed fears of the controversial industry coming to the province as “hypothetical,” and ruled out the poss...
from the Council of Canadians The UN recognized last Sunday, March 22 as World Water Day, but a former UN advisor on water says that Canadians did not have much to celebrate this year. Maude Barlow, former UN advisor on water and bestselling author, gives Stephen Harper’s government a failing grade i...
AWARE News Network We at AWARE Simcoe are deeply saddened by the death of Stephan Kramp. He was a friend and ally on the local political scene, a very effective Deputy Mayor and County Councillor who was not afraid to question the status quo. He did his research and presented strong arguments on many...
AWARE News Network The Ontario government has launched a public consultation process on climate change: Climate Change Discussion Paper, EBR #012-3452. This is an exercise we should all get involved in as a first step. Future steps will be to ensure our government follows through with real action to ...
Two sessions set for Monday April 20 will include question and answer sessions By Kate Harries AWARE News Network It’s taken three years, but the public will finally get some explanations about the 2008 Simcoe County Official Plan that was spurned by the provincial government, rewritten in 2012, appr...
LATEST LATEST: 5 pm, Tuesday March 3 — Simcoe County Warden Gerry Marshall has just advised AWARE Simcoe that a stop-work order has been issued. New Tec release: March 4 – Tree cutting on 9th Line property LATEST: This morning, residents and members of council have been at the site since ...
From Ontario Nature This afternoon, the provincial government announced the start of the much anticipated review of plans that protect the Oak Ridges Moraine, Niagara Escarpment and Greenbelt.To protect these embattled landscapes forever, we must unequivocally tell the government that we want: strong...
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