State Department Approves Illegal Scheme for Doubling Tar Sands Flowing through the Great Lakes By Jim Murphy from Wildlife Promise On August 18, 2014, the State Department posted documents that show Enbridge has hatched a scheme to almost double the flow of tar sands into the Great Lakes region alon...
Dump in Youngstown, N.Y., now being considered for expansion has been taking in toxic and radioactive waste since 2001 By David Israelson Toronto Star NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE–Remember the Love Canal ? Just up the road from that notorious toxic neighbourhood in New York state, there’s a new plan to dump ...
On July 17, 2014, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the SSEA will be hosting our annual Open House at the Midland Public Library, 320 King Street, Midland ON.. Featuring Guest Speaker Scudder Mackey, Chief, Office of Coastal Management at Ohio Department of Natural Resources, presenting (2:00 p.m. – 3:00...
Open letter to the Georgian Bay Community from Restore Our Waters International Recently the Georgian Bay Association (GBA) requested that Restore Our Water International (ROWI) participate in a mediation session with other organizations to arrive at a common position regarding what should be done a...
by JOHN LAFORGE Counterpunch No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” — Lily Tomlin Ontario Power Generation (OPG) — which owns or leases 20 nuclear reactors across Ontario — would save loads of cash by not having to contain, monitor and repackage leaky above-ground radioactiv...
By Chris Fell Collingwood Connection The Blue Mountains council has given its support to the efforts of a group of area citizens trying to save the Nottawasaga Lighthouse. Nick Brindisi, the Publicity Chair of the Nottawasaga Lighthouse Preservation Society, made a presentation at council’s reg...
From Mary Muter,
Chair, Great Lakes Section,
Sierra Club Canada Foundation The US Army Corps of Engineers recently released a report on options to prevent the very invasive Asian Carp from getting into Great Lakes and all connecting waterways and lakes. To learn more about these fish, please watch ...
Sierra Club Canada applauds Obana administration’s investment in restoring Michigan-Huron and Georgian Bay water levels Sierra Club Canada Foundation news release After 50 years of failing to complete the terms and conditions of a U.S. / Canada agreement to compensate for the loss of water from Lakes...
Economic Effects of 2013 and Surviving 2014 From Mayor Gerry Marshall The Town of Penetanguishene is hosting a public consultation session on Saturday February 22, 2014 from 10am to 12pm at the Arena (Brian Orser Hall. 61 Maria St.) The purpose of the consultation is to gather information from our lo...
AWARE News Network December 20 2013 Brian Smith, a student in ecosystem management at Fleming College, Linday, started a Facebook page two days ago called Canadians for Environmental Responsibility. It’s intended to highlight issues seldom heard about in the mainstream media. As an example his first ...
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