Letter to the Orillia Packet & Times In the latest incarnation of the Harper government’s absurd conviction that it, and it alone, knows what’s best for the Canadian economy comes the statement that regulating greenhouse gases in the oil and gas sector makes for “crazy economic policy.” Perhaps i...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The developer of a proposed wind turbine project north of County Road 91 hopes for answers in 2015. WPD Canada’s proposal to erect eight 450-foot-tall wind turbines west of Stayner was presented to the public in 2010. This past summer, the company reached the point when ...
Report from Day 1 of the hearing By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press TORONTO — An expert tribunal was entitled to conclude a proposed wind farm would devastate a population of already threatened turtles, Ontario’s top court heard Monday. The case, which pits turtles against turbines, coul...
y Matthew Sitler 103.3 Moose FM A local tree service company employee is taking a stand against Swift River Energy Ltd’s plans at Bala Falls. The company’s District Manager for Muskoka North Kyle Vincent says Swift River approached the company recently about getting an arborist report and tree remova...
Wynne has been silent on Ostrander Point debate By Anna Sand Save Ostrander Point This Monday and Tuesday, will bring to a finale a 4 year legal battle. The fight? To stop the construction of 9 industrial wind turbines (IWT) in Ostrander Point, one of North America’s most important migratory routes f...
Prince Edward County naturalists challenge a proposed wind farm in Ontario’s highest court, over the future of a rare turtle By John Spears Toronto Star Turtles and wind turbines head for what’s likely to be a final legal showdown Monday in Ontario’s highest court. At stake: The fate of a proposed w...
by JOHN LAFORGE Counterpunch Maybe vampire fables are just metaphors for bad ideas that are hard to kill. The proposed Deep Geological Repository for radioactive waste being considered by Canada’s Joint Review Panel is such a bad idea that even pro-nuclear Republican US senators like Illinois’ Mark K...
By Ian Adams Collingwood Connection QUEEN’S PARK — Simcoe-Grey’s Member of Provincial Parliament is not just tilting at windmills, he’s cursing them. In the Ontario Legislature on Tuesday, Jim Wilson continued to press the Liberal government for answers on the status of a wind energy project propose...
from Cheryl Anderson Prince Edward County Field Naturalists On Dec 8-9, PECFN will be defending the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) ruling that overturned the Ministry of the Environment’s approval of the Gilead wind turbine project. We are appealing to the Appeal Court of Ontario because, subseq...
Hundreds of thousands of people who live near Ontario’s nuclear power plants will have to be given supplies of anti-radiation pills under new orders from Canada’s nuclear regulator By Keith Leslie The Canadian Press Hundreds of thousands of people who live near Ontario’s nuclear power plants will ha...
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