Goderich-area residents say court battle will cost them hundreds of thousands and undermine access to justice for others fighting turbines By: Colin Perkel The Canadian Press A demand that four Ontario families pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs to billion-dollar companies is a thinl...
One month of testing, now including burning of garbage, underway for facility By Noor Javed Toronto Star The GTA’s newest incinerator has been fired up. The Durham York Energy Centre in Clarington began burning its first haul of curbside garbage on Friday morning, as part of a month-long testing phas...
Kinetic tile is harnessing energy from footsteps to power floodlights, electronic devices and more By Shane Hickey The Guardian Whenever a goal is scored on the community football pitch at the Morro da Mineira favela near central Rio de Janeiro, the crowds can cheer on courtesy of the six unique – ...
Building stronger communities through infrastructure investments By Louis Roesch, Board Member, Ontario Federation of Agriculture The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) is advocating for affordable, accessible natural gas across rural Ontario. For more than a year, our focus has been to address ...
News release from EcoJustice Environmental groups are appealing a Federal Court decision that refused to overturn an environmental assessment of Ontario Power Generation’s proposal to rebuild four aging nuclear reactors at the Darlington power plant. The appeal has been launched by Greenpeace, Canadi...
By Bill Shotyk My home I live in one half of a reasonably well-insulated, modest 1960 duplex in Old Strathcona. The attic is well insulated, the exterior has a layer of insulation under the siding, and all the windows and doors are new and energy-efficient. There is one furnace for each level of the...
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...
From the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner says he’s adopting a waitand- see attitude towards the government’s Conservation First philosophy. In releasing his 2014 Energy Conservation Progress Report “Planning to Conserve”, Gord Miller praised the shift to con...
By David Suzuki Abundant, cheap fossil fuels have driven explosive technological, industrial and economic expansion for more than a century. The pervasive infrastructure developed to accommodate this growth makes it difficult to contemplate rapidly shifting away from coal, oil and gas, which creates ...
from Ontario Clean Air Alliance Just before Christmas, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) quietly undermined one of the most important climate change initiatives in Ontario by putting arbitrary limits on programs designed to help us use natural gas more efficiently. It’s never good news when a regulatory...
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