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Mar 4th, 2015
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By Wendy Gabrek New Tecumseth Times A group of concerned citizens came together tonight at the Beeton Library branch to discuss the impact of the removal of trees on a 9th Line property. Banning together under the ‘Save The Beeton Woods’ Facebook banner, the meeting lasted three hours and more than 7...
Mar 3rd, 2015
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Drury on Angus Plains in 1906 – Photo by E.J. Zavitz Forest bylaws like Simcoe’s normally protect large-sized forests By John Bacher AWARE News Network Today a 35 acre forest in Beeton is threatened to be removed for agricultural conversion through a “special permit” to the Si...
Mar 3rd, 2015
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Report of Tiny Township Council Meeting Friday February 27, 2015 By Vickie Kee AWARE Tiny Beamish will not be requesting a second public meeting on their proposed quarry expansion until April or May because some of the key people have been away. They have been in discussion with some of the property ...
Mar 3rd, 2015
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online Opponents of a Simcoe County approved “special permit” issued to Tecumseth Estates (Rizzardo) to remove 35 acres of woodland at 6386 and 6416 9th Line in Beeton, succeeded this morning in disrupting, at least for today, work crews accessing the property to ...
Mar 3rd, 2015
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By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald  BEETON – New Tecumseth will be taking immediate measures to try and stop a woodlot from being cleared from a rural property on the northern outskirts of Beeton. At Monday night’s committee of the whole meeting, council agreed to ask Simcoe County to suspend a ...
Mar 3rd, 2015
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LATEST LATEST: 5 pm, Tuesday March 3 — Simcoe County Warden Gerry Marshall has just advised AWARE Simcoe that a stop-work order has been issued. New Tec release: March 4 – Tree cutting on 9th Line property LATEST: This morning, residents and members of council have been at the site since ...
In Energy
Mar 1st, 2015
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Goderich-area residents say court battle will cost them hundreds of thousands and undermine access to justice for others fighting turbines By: Colin Perkel The Canadian Press A demand that four Ontario families pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs to billion-dollar companies is a thinl...
Feb 27th, 2015
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Further restoration work vital to environmental integrity of Oak Ridges Moraine News release from the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority An environmental report card recently released by a coalition of conservation authorities reveals that efforts to protect the Oak Ridges Moraine have been la...
Feb 27th, 2015
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From Ontario Nature This afternoon, the provincial government announced the start of the much anticipated review of plans that protect the Oak Ridges Moraine, Niagara Escarpment and Greenbelt.To protect these embattled landscapes forever, we must unequivocally tell the government that we want: strong...
Feb 27th, 2015
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Premier Kathleen Wynne has chosen the former mayor to revisit the decade-old Greenbelt Plan that curbs urban sprawl from Niagara Falls to Peterborough By: Robert Benzie Toronto Star  Premier Kathleen Wynne has tapped former Toronto mayor David Crombie to revisit the decade-old Greenbelt that curbs ur...