What's growing around you?AWARE Simcoe news release - April 8 2012A meeting being held this Saturday April 14 at the Elmvale Arena is aimed to be the start of a county-wide effort to control and eradicate invasive alien plant species. ...
Bike powered by vegetable oil assembled by Midland machinistBy Nicole Million April 7 2012MIDLAND – While it might smell like a french fry truck, Eckhard Schulz’s latest creation is much cooler.Read more...
Review board rules no evidence nearby wind turbines devalued homesCBC News Apr 7, 2012An Ontario couple who launched a case arguing that nearby wind turbines devalued their waterfront home and should be a factor in their property assessment has lost the challenge.Read more...
By Vreni Hommes Triple Pundit April 5 2012Turning worm poop into fertilizer was TerraCycle’s first big idea. Then they transformed discarded drink containers into consumer bling. which made them a world-recognized leader in this hot, new trend of “upcycling.” Upcycling is the conversion of waste dest...
By BUD TRIVETT AND BOB BOWLES Midland Free Press April 5 2012Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) was first confirmed in Lake Simcoe last year. It is unknown exactly how the virus gained entry to the Great Lakes.Full story...
By Elizabeth Thompson ipolitics March 5 2012Number 1 is The Standing committee Procedure and House affairs which has spent a record 62.7 percent of its time in camera, followed by the Standing Committee of Public Accounts at 50 percent and the Standing Committee for the Status of Women at 42 percent....
Climate skeptics’ popular argument discredited by global trendCBC News April 5 2012 A significant increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, rather than changes to the Earth’s orbit, was likely the main cause of global warming that ended the last ice age, a new study has found.Read mor...
The Canadian Press Apr. 03 2012 Ont. faces $1B lawsuit for moratorium on wind farms TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government said Tuesday it would defend itself against a $1-billion lawsuit over its moratorium on offshore wind farms, the second such action over the province’s energy policie...
Barrie doctor chimes in on planetary healthBy NICKI CRUICKSHANK – Barrie Examiner April 2 2012A Barrie cardiologist is just as worried about his planet as his patients’ tickers.Read more...
By Niamh Scallan Simcoe.com Apr 03, 2011Engineering projects that would have helped Georgian Bay wetlands not recommendedNORTH SIMCOE – Bob Duncanson remembers the days years ago when he could kayak through the wetlands near his family’s cottage on Georgian Bay’s east coast. Today, a rise of land cov...
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