'Fill operations can be very lucrative, multi-million dollar businesses,' councillors told By Kate Harries AWARE News Network March 19 2013What comes out has to go somewhere – and if it’s contaminated fill, it goes to whatever municipality has failed to arm itself with the appropriate bylaw protectio...

 By Kate Harries AWARE News Network March 18 2013Simcoe County is soliciting public input on its plan to extend the term of office of the county warden from the current two years to a proposed four years. A  public meeting is set for Tuesday, March 26 at 10 a.m. in the Council Chambers at the Simcoe ...

New Tecumseth Free Press March 11, 2013Simcoe County council cost taxpayers $553,934 in salaries and $47,897 in mileage claims according to the annual filing of remunerations and expenses....

Last year, Simcoe County denied petition for public meetings because OP 'essentially the same'By Kate Harries AWARE News Network March 5 2013Last June, 295 people signed a petition launched by AWARE Simcoe and Environmental Defence for public meetings to be held on Simcoe County's draft modified Offi...

New Tecumseth Free Press February 25, 2013Last October, Simcoe County councillors rejected the idea of direct elections to the upper tier, couldn't agree to reduce the size and composition of council, frowned on the notion of a full-time Warden, but did find common ground to make the Warden's positio...

News Release Suzuki Foundation February 7, 2013 TORONTO — A patchwork of remaining farmland and green space in Ontario's rapidly growing Golden Horseshoe region provides millions of dollars in services and benefits, according to a David Suzuki Foundation study. The report examines the Whitebelt Study...

AWARE Simcoe January 22 2013The first stage in an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing that will decide a number of contentious issues in Simcoe County’s Official Plan is scheduled for Tuesday March 5, 2013 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston. The Midhurst Secondary Plan is expected to be one of the ...

Past failures deplored, tough decisions predicted to achieve next level of diversionBy Kate Harries AWARE News Network January 22 2013At the exact mid-point of their four-year term, Simcoe county councillors seem to have realized that they have to get serious about waste diversion – or taxpayers will...

Zero Waste Simcoe letter to Simcoe County Council January 18 2012It has come the attention of the Board of Zero Waste Simcoe that Simcoe County is considering shipping curbside waste to an Ontario landfill site. This is our understanding as per item report CS 13-008 from the CorporateServices Committ...

New Tecumseth Free Press January 8, 2013Simcoe County's environmental services department is pushing forward with plans for an organics processing "facility developed in the County, be owned by the County with a design, build and operate arrangement with a qualified vendor" that would also include ca...