New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County, six years removed from the protracted and bitter fight lost to opponents of its proposed landfill site in Elmvale (Site 41), prepares to embark on a new site selection process, this time to develop and operate an organics processing facility, whose end r...
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...
… while polluting air, land and water The following letter has been sent to Mr. David Chernushenko, Ottawa’s Environment Committee Chair: It is sad to read that our nation’s capital was bamboozled by promises of a quick fix to solve its waste woes. Of course, Ottawa is not the only city ...
By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times At least one Ramara Township employee has been disciplined in connection with the contaminated waste that was dumped on municipal property in December. “A staff member, through discussion, has acknowledged some wrongdoing,” acting CAO and clerk Janice McKin...
Single-use packaging an increasing contributor to ocean pollution – only 14 per cent is recycled From As You Sow SAN FRANCISCO, CA – While plastic packaging is the fastest growing form of packaging in the U.S. in large part due to the popularity of fast food and consumer beverages, only ...
Report of Tiny Township Council Meeting, Monday January 26, 2015 By Vickie Kee AWARE Tiny Burnside and Associates made a presentation regarding the staatus and next steps of the septage issue. Burnside confirms that this issue is on Phase 2 and on hold. The preferred alternative is to find a sight to...
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin (STAFF) — Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Glen R. Murray has presented the County of Simcoe with an award for Environmental Excellence to acknowledge the Learning & Living Green partnership program between the county and local school boards. This pr...
Debora Van Brenk QMI Agency LONDON, ONT. – America’s slime, Canada’s dirty little secret. Until now, that is. Toxic algae that’s made life miserable along Lake Erie’s Ohio shore, forcing the shutdown of Toledo’s water intake last summer, has links that reach far into Southwest...
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