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Environment

May 10th, 2018
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Entomologist Doug Tallamy  from Living Green Barrie Living Green Barrie will be hosting a screening of Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringing Nature Home, a 90-minute environmental, education documentary focused on showing how and why native plants are critical to the survival and vitality of local ec...
May 3rd, 2018
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Delaware-based concrete company Bilcon had proposed a 152-hectare quarry and marine terminal on Digby Neck -CBC photo News release from Sierra Club Canada Foundation OTTAWA – East Coast Environmental Law, Sierra Club Canada Foundation and Ecojustice issued the following statement in response to the F...
May 1st, 2018
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AWARE News Network PC leader Doug Ford quickly backed down from a plan to open up the Greenbelt for development. There is now all party support for the Greenbelt, which is consistent with polls showing over 89 per cent public support for its protection of farms, forests and natural areas. As for hous...
Apr 30th, 2018
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PC leader Doug Ford PC leader said he will “open a big chunk” of protected GTHA farmland to build housing if the Progressive Conservatives win the June 7 electionBy By ROBERT BENZIE and KRISTIN RUSHOWY Toronto Star Doug Ford has privately assured developers he will “open a big chunk” of protected lan...
Apr 29th, 2018
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By Dr Andrew Glikson Countercurrents The extraction and transfer from the Earth crust to the atmosphere of every economically available molecule of carbon, including coal, oil, tar sand oil, shale oil, methane gas, coal seam gas and other forms of hydrocarbon, constitutes the most significant shift i...
Apr 28th, 2018
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from Concerned Citizens of Adjala-Tosorontio Soup Stock starts with a Pancake Breakfast, from 8am – 11am with local maple syrup and butter, chocolate milk and coffee – Adults $10, children 12 and under $5, family of four $20. Delicious Unlimited Soup from local ‘Chefs’ with ho...
Apr 27th, 2018
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The world’s most widely used insecticides will be banned from all fields within six months, to protect both wild and honeybees that are vital to crop pollination By Damian Carrington The Guardian April 27 2018 The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due t...
Apr 24th, 2018
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Ron Reid Property includes more than four kilometres of Black River shoreline by Frank Matys Orillia Today  When the Couchiching Conservancy acquired several hundred acres of vital natural habitat east of Washago, it seemed only appropriate to give the property a name of substance. Initially called t...
Apr 22nd, 2018
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Researchers examine one of the North Atlantic right whales that died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last year. -Marine Animal Response Society photo AWARE News Network Really bad news, just in time for Earth Day. The Trudeau government is allowing BP to do exploratory drilling off the Nova Scotia coast,...
Apr 22nd, 2018
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AWARE News Network The following proposal has been posted by the Ontario government on the EBR registry The proposal is related to sustainable excess soil management and reuse. The proposal aims to protect human health and the environment. It also aims to increase opportunities for the beneficial reu...