This sign was on display at a recent protest. |Natasha Philpott/BradfordToday From OrilliaMatters, July 20, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Highway 413 will only take 30 seconds off of commute time — saving 30 seconds of driving time will harm 2,000 acres of farmland, cut through 85 waterways, damage 220...
Stock Image From OrilliaMatters, July 19, 2022 NEWS RELEASE FORESTS ONTARIO Forests Ontario and its partners planted 2.5 million native tree seedlings across the province this season as part of its 50 Million Tree Program. This brings Forests Ontario’s program total to 36.7 million trees planted, cre...
“Phrag Free” Tiny Marsh Program: Year 2 This is M-T-M Conservation Association’s second year of a three-year program to control the presence and spread of the invasive plant known as Phragmites Reed at the Tiny Marsh Provincial Wildlife Area. Volunteer work parties did a terrific job in 2021 knocking...
Happy July! The summer has started and I know a lot of you are enjoying the sunshine and family time at the beach and some of you may even be traveling on holidays. If you are around the next two weeks we have some important events coming up: Georgian Bay Forever RECEIVE A FREE WASHING MACHINE [&hell...
From the Ontario Clean Air Alliance By Angela Bischoff, Director The International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board is calling for Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) nuclear waste storage facilities to be “hardened” and located away from shorelines to prevent them from becoming compro...
Escarpment Coalition Alliance director George Knowles said his group is pleased with the response to a petition calling on the provincial government to halt major developments proposed for the Niagara Escarpment. – George Knowles photo From Simcoe.com, July 12, 2022 By Ian Adams A petition call...
On Thursday July 21, walk with Grassy Narrows to combat environment injustice!...
Stock image From OrilliaMatters, Juky 9, 2022 NEWS RELEASE: SUSTAINABLE ORILLIA With news of droughts in the prairies and the western U.S., larger than ever tornadoes roaring through Oklahoma and other U.S. states, a seldom heard of windstorm sweeping through southern Ontario, and wildfire season sta...
From the Ontario Clean Air Alliance By Angela Bischoff, Director Eastern Power is planning a new gas-fired power plant near Sarnia, something Ontario needs about as much as another pandemic. Their plan to build a 600-megawatt gas-fired power plant near the St. Clair River would increase greenhouse g...
Senior hydrologist Dave Hopkins (bottom row, right) of R.J. Burnside & Associates Ltd. recently provided Tiny Township council with an overview of accepted consulting recommendations for the Waverley Pit No. 2 permit to take water and Environmental Compliance Approval by the Ministry of Environme...
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