The WASAGA BEACH Climate Action Team 2021 WAS A VERY EXCITING YEAR !!! Something important happened this past May…. The Wasaga Beach Council voted to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY and it hit the Newspapers Wasaga Beach councillors vote on a motion declaring a climate crisis during council’s...
By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance With Ontario once again threatening to derail Canada’s efforts to address the growing threat from climate change, it’s time for the federal government to make it clear that every province needs to do its share to prevent a climate c...
Stock image | Photo by Rodolfo Quirós via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, November 21, 2021 A Letter to the Editor The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and our allies are engaged in municipal comprehensive review (MCR) processes across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). What is different about Sim...
Art Janse Pumping Station, proposed site of the Holland Marsh Phosphorus Recycling Facility, September 2021. From BarrieToday, January 3, 2022 A Letter to the Editor I am a resident of Rushton Road in the Willow Beach hamlet in the Town of Georgina. I am a senior environmental health and safety scien...
Stock image | Photo by picjumbo.com from Pexels From OrilliaMatters, December 17, 2021 A Letter to the Editor I have often pondered over many years as to what our world would be like without the blunders, corruption, the stupidity, the lying, the manipulation, the greed, the lack of transparency, the...
Beginning in February 2022, Orillia residents are to place garbage in a clear plastic bag instead of a black or green plastic bag as part of the new clear garbage program. Residents can place up to two small privacy bags, such as regular sized shopping bags, to hide private items in their clear bag. ...
(Brent Calver/Western Wheel) From MidlandToday, December 21, 2021 Letter to the editor Dear Editor, Councillor Wishart of Tiny Township is spot on when he says: “This whole thing is happening in the wrong place in the world.” Aggregate mining in this particular environmentally critical area is reckle...
A protest against the Bradford Bypass protest is shown in a file photo.Natasha Philpott/BradfordToday From BarrieToday, December 18, 2021 By Joseph Quigley Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition executive director Claire Malcolmson says she’s happy about the headway her organization has made in the fight...
By Alienor Rougeot, Program Manager, Climate & Energy, Environmental Defence Tailings lakes are large industry-created reservoirs that contain wastewater from oil production. For decades, oil companies have been prohibited from releasing tailings into the environment because they are toxic, harmf...
This file photo shows a swath cut through a wetland near the Orillia Rama Regional Airport, part of which is shown in the background.Bob Bowles | Supplied photo From OrilliaMatters, December 14, 2021 By Nathan Taylor Ramara council members are still not sold on the divesting of a road allowance near ...
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