News release from Environmental Defene March 17 2010Call for province to ban corporate and union donations to municipal election campaignsSimcoe County – The McGuinty government should ban corporate and union contributions to municipal election campaigns, says a report released today by Campaign Lake...
Government looks at placing burden of blue box program solely on industryBy Tanya Talaga Toronto Star July 24 2010Plans to fully privatize the province’s blue box recycling program, saving municipalities up to $120 million a year, are in limbo due to the Stewardship Ontario fiasco, the Star has learn...
By Gail Swainson Toronto Star July 23 2010A coalition of farmers, residents and green activists are suing the provincial government for shoving through a gas-fired power plant next to the Holland Marsh. ...
By Rob Ferguson Toronto Star July 16 2010The head of embattled Stewardship Ontario is a well-connected Liberal who has retained a former eHealth consultant to do damage control for the recycling agency in charge of new “eco fees” on thousands of household products, the Star has learned. ...
By Mark Mattson, Joanna Bull, Krystyn Tully Waterkeeper.ca Weekly July 14 2010Bruce Power wants to ship sixteen radioactive decommissioned steam generators across the ocean to Sweden for repurposing. The parts of the generators that are “too radioactive to be recycled” will make their way back acro...
Townships need to be kept informed Orangeville Citizen June 26 2010ALTHOUGH WE ACKNOWLEDGE that higher levels of government need to have a measure of control over most things for the common good, we are less than impressed by Queen’s Park’s apparent lack of respect for governments at the ...
From Lake Ontario Waterkeeper — May 25 2010– Environment Canada has proposed the enactment of a Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulation to address the ongoing and serious problems caused by sewage pollution in Canadian waters. The most significant aspect of the proposed change is that the ...
Bruce Power officials outline plan to move low-level radioactive steam generators through city harbour By Denis Langlois Owen Sound Sun Times July 14 2010Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners is dead against a plan by Bruce Power to load 16 low-level radioactive steam generators onto a ship in Owen Sound Harbou...
Comments in Toronto Star "the consumer is none the wiser” are a setback for all who rely upon public trustZero Waste Simcoe Chair Gord McKay has contacted Gemma Zecchini, CEO of Ontario's Stewardship Ontario program regarding her comments in this news item Toronto Star Article – July 10, 2010 “Bury...
CBC News July 12, 2010 Green bin material from other cities may be shipped to Ottawa. (CBC) The temporary closure of an organics recycling plant in southwestern Ontario could have an impact on Ottawa.Orgaworld has voluntarily shut down operations at its London, Ont., facility while it performs upgrad...
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