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Jan 15th, 2015
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AWARE Simcoe Factsheet on LRSCA’s Subdivisions-in-Wetlands policy...
Jan 15th, 2015
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AWARE News Network Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) will host a webinar on January 22 at 1:00pm to highlight his report, Managing New Challenges. In this one-hour session, he will present his perspective and his advice to ministries on several issues in the news this past year...
Jan 13th, 2015
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AWARE News Network AWARE Simcoe is pleased to welcome Gary Christie, an accomplished angler and knowledgeable biologist, to our organization’s lineup of bloggers. Gary, who has been president of the Nottawasaga Steelheaders since 2001, and a member of this conservation-minded group of anglers since 1...
Jan 13th, 2015
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The Pine River is a major feeder tributary of the Nottawasaga River, providing clean and cool water, much of it from springs in the important limestone of the Amabel bedrock deep in Dufferin County and the Niagara Escarpment. Studies from the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) and Ontar...
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Jan 6th, 2015
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The site has been issued several orders over the years to come into compliance, following water samples taken in 2010 that exceeded water quality guidelines From Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine An Ontario hazardous waste processing company, and its directors, have been fined a total of $320,000 ...
Jan 5th, 2015
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Innisfil Journal Based on a positive trend in lake herring populations, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) has re-opened the fishery on Lake Simcoe. Anglers have been anxiously awaiting the opportunity, said Matt DeMille, manager of fish and wildlife services for the Ontario Federa...
Dec 1st, 2014
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AWARE News Networ  About 150 Springwater residents packed into the council chambers Monday night to see their new council sworn in. In his inaugural address, Mayor Bill French picked up on themes from the election campaign to outline a program for the next four years – preservation of the township’s ...
Nov 3rd, 2014
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From the Friends of Minesing Wetlands Utopia, Ontario, October 31, 2014 – The Friends of Minesing Wetlands present a special evening on the science and stewardship of the internationally significant Minesing Wetlands at the Tiffin Conservation Centre for Conservation in Utopia,November 13, 2014. Loca...
Oct 24th, 2014
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Report from the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority of its October 24 board meeting NVCA protects and manages much of the land within the 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) Minesing Wetlands. Minesing is an internationally significant wetland that provides local wetland benefits such as flood attenu...
Oct 17th, 2014
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BY AMARNATH AMARASINGAM SARAH MORGAN Rabble “Will our children looking back, upon all that we have done/ find clean water in a bottle, and denounce Site 41?” — Marg Raynor, Site 41 Drum Song Beginning in May 2009, in the small community of Tiny Township, Ontario, the Beausoleil Firs...