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Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority

Jun 19th, 2016
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From the Friends of Simcoe County Forest website The Friends of Simcoe County Forest invite you to a BBQ FUNDRAISER, on Wednesday 22 June. They need your help to stop the a new dual organics and waste facility the County has planned on 200 acres of forested land on Horseshoe Valley Road, north of Bar...
May 18th, 2016
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Not(tawasaga) Your Average Tree Planting from the Nature Conservancy of Canada Join the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) to plant trees along the Nottawasaga River in the Minesing Wetlands. Minesing Wetlands (Angus, Ontario) Thursday, May 26,...
May 16th, 2016
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By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Plans to dredge the Nottawasaga River are moving ahead. On Thursday, Wasaga Beach council’s coordinated committee received an update on the environmental assessment process that would give the municipality the tool it needed should it decide to go ahead with dredging certain p...
May 12th, 2016
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By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Wasaga Beach bylaw officers have laid charges in connection with the removal of a number of trees at a local golf course. At council’s coordinated committee meeting today, chief bylaw officer Doug Vincent confirmed charges had been filed in connection to tree cutting that took...
May 11th, 2016
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From the Springwater Township website The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe provides the County of Simcoe with an additional 20,000 people to allocate to area municipalities. As a result of this, the County Official Plan was amended to provide the opportunity for municipalities and develop...
May 11th, 2016
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Text of Report CCW 16-189 – Applications for a Portion of the 20,000 Population Program – Midhurst Requests From Simcoe County website – link to agenda, scroll down to item 14 To: HEARING – 20,000 Population Program Meeting Date: May 24, 2016 Subject: Applications for a Portion of t...
May 3rd, 2016
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As the county councillors with the most intimate understanding of the implications of the bonus population allocations being sought by Midhurst developers, you would expect Springwater Mayor Bill French and Deputy Mayor Don Allen to play an important role at the county’s upcoming hearing into the app...
Apr 30th, 2016
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Time is Running Out to Save Our Village From the Midhurst Ratepayers’ Association Thank you for signing our petition urging Premier Wynne to stop the proposed mega-sprawl development in Midhurst which would replace the historic rural charm of our village of 3,500 with a “Legocity” the size of O...
Apr 26th, 2016
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News release from the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority Hundreds of new road signs to help municipal drinking water sources are being installed across Simcoe and Muskoka this spring. Many more of these drinking water protection zone signs will be installed across Ontario in 2016. The signs ma...
Apr 9th, 2016
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from AWARE Essa From the distant past to the near future: Essa’s Trees through Time Ancient Forests of Massive Pines up to early 1800s Lumber Industry 1800s Reforestation Years 1900s What’s Next for the Trees of Essa? 2016… Can Essa’s Official Plan Protect our Trees? AWARE Essa invites you to j...