• Protecting Water and Farmland in Simcoe County

Oro-Medonte

Mar 18th, 2022
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What: a rally to protect the world’s purest scientifically tested water. A gravel mining operation in North Simcoe has a permit to draw millions of litres of groundwater daily just to wash gravel. A second operation is seeking a similar permit. Both operations sit above an aquifer containing the worl...
Mar 17th, 2022
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The world’s purest water – right here in Simcoe County – is featured in ON Nature, published by leading environmental charity Ontario Nature. “Why is that water so pure? Nobody in the world can tell you that,” scientist Bill Shotyk tells the magazine. “A few truckl...
Mar 16th, 2022
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Residents have been regularly gathering in front of the Teedon Pit gates to peacefully protest the proposed expansion. Locals are worried about the impact the expansion will have on the ground water quality. From Simcoe.com March 14, 2022 By Andrew Mendler Residents are not giving up in the fight to ...
Mar 14th, 2022
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World Water Day Webinar March 21, 2022, at 7 pm...
Mar 14th, 2022
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Zoom information meeting March 20th at 7 pm...
In Barrie
Mar 11th, 2022
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In this file photo from 2019, from left, local Conservative MPs John Brassard (Barrie-Innisfil) and Doug Shipley (Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte) announce they would reinstate the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund. Shawn Gibson/BarrieToday From OrilliaToday, March 10, 2022 A Letter to the Editor I was please...
Mar 8th, 2022
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In Barrie
Mar 8th, 2022
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From left are Bradford West Gwillimbury Coun. Jonathan Scott, Georgina Coun. Dave Neeson, Georgina Mayor Margaret Quirk, East Gwillimbury Coun. Scott Crone, Oro-Medonte Coun. Shawn Scott in Jackson’s Point. From BarrieToday, March 7, 2022 By BarrieToday Staff Municipal councillors from across t...
Mar 4th, 2022
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Water seeps up and trickles down under the forest canopy of the Simcoe Uplands in fall. | AWARE Simcoe photo The Government of Canada is being asked to take action to protect the purest water known to science. A petition published on the House of Commons website urges that the federal government use ...
Mar 4th, 2022
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Ina and Keith Wood greet supporters after surrendering to police at the Southern Georgian Bay OPP detachment on Aug. 6. Police charged the couple with mischief in connection with the blockade at the County of Simcoe’s Site 41 landfill in Tiny Township. Charges laid against Site 41 protesters – ...