By Charles O’Hara Director, Resource Recovery Policy Branch Environmental Policy Division Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Park On June 3, 2021, Ontario finalized a new blue box regulation (O. Reg. 391/21) to make producers responsible for collecting and managing paper, packaging...
By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Double your impact Last week, Ontario took yet another determined step down the road toward climate destruction. In an era when everyone from the United Nations to the oil-and-gas-friendly International Energy Agency has said “no more fos...
Local farmers are worried about the impact of planned provincial legislation. From OrilliaMatters, May 24, 2022 By Derek Howard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A recent crop of concerns popped up at the Tiny Township council meeting. Tiny council heard from Paul Maurice of Lafontaine, a local f...
Nottawasaga watershed health report shows forests, wetlands in decline, stream conditions still poor
The health of forests and wetlands is in decline, but the quality of groundwater sources remain very good to good, according to a recent health check report of the Nottawasaga watershed From Simcoe.com, May 9, 2023 By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald A recent health check on local rivers, streams and f...
Release from Friends of the Waverley Uplands THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF ITS TYPE! Do our Federal/Provincial Legal and Environmental requirements/regulations for aggregate mining go far enough to protect the purest groundwater known to science; how about for digging below the water table? Until mor...
‘In a world gone mad, we need laughter,’ says Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition official of upcoming fundraiser OrilliaMatters Staff, Mar 18 2023 The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is tickled to invite lake lovers and comedy fans to its second annual Laugh for Lake Simcoe comedy event on Friday,...
‘With accelerated growth … water availability and quality will continue to decline, putting even more pressure on the Great Lakes,’ says conservation authority official From OrillliaMatters Collingwood’s shoreline along Georgian Bay in Lake Huron.Supplied photo The Nottawasaga...
With #Bill23, now the “More Homes Faster” Act, has the self-proclaimed Man of the People finally skewered himself in the butt? Margaret Atwood Dec 12 ,2022 It was a dark and soundless day near the end of the year, and clouds were hanging low in the heavens. Oops, that’s the opening of The...
‘Land is what grows everything … that’s why it’s so important we try to use our land as efficiently as possible,’ says Ontario Federation of Agriculture official From OrilliaMatters Mar 13, 2023 Chris Fell, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Municipal policies that enc...
‘The government is modernizing its almost 50-year-old environmental assessment process that is too slow, too costly, and too burdensome,’ says PCs of bill From OrilliaMatters Mar 1 2023 Charlie Pinkerton Photo: Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma pictured at a railway station in St. Catha...
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