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Feb 2nd, 2024
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MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gail Little and Jonathan Scott continue to lead NVCA Board of Directors UTOPIA, Ontario (January 29, 2024) – Last Friday, Gail Little, Deputy Mayor for the Township of Amaranth, and Jonathan Scott, Councillor for the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury were acclaimed...
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Feb 2nd, 2024
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ONTARIO NATURE Hello, Did you know more than 18.4 million hectares burned across Canada in 2023 as of November 2, 2023? This shattered the previous single-year high mark of 7.1 million hectares, which was set in 1995. Canada’s wildfires made international headlines in 2023. The greenhouse gases they ...
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Feb 2nd, 2024
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Another backroom bonanza for nuclear interests In yet another backroom deal bonanza, the Ford government has signed off on a plan to rebuild four 40-year-old nuclear reactors at North America’s third-oldest nuclear plant – the Pickering Nuclear Station in the eastern GTA. The government is offe...
By AWARE Simcoe
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Feb 2nd, 2024
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At Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s annual general meeting, board members also received update on lake’s health Barrie Today Staff, Jan 29, 2024 NEWS RELEASE LAKE SIMCOE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY **************************** At its 73rd Annual General Meeting, Lake Simcoe R...
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Feb 2nd, 2024
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WATER WATCHERS It is getting SALTY in Ontario and the waters in the ground, flowing in rivers, and in lakes need your urgent action. Ontario is the biggest user of salt in Canada through the winter period (responsible for nearly HALF of the road salt used across the country). Not only are we harming ...
By AWARE Simcoe
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Jan 20th, 2024
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ONTARIO CLEAN AIR ALLIANCE Ford’s Christmas gift to Enbridge Gas The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has seen the future and that future does not include subsidizing the expansion of fossil gas service to new residential developments. The OEB ended that subsidy, finding that this would lower energy bills ...
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Jan 20th, 2024
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‘We’re new to the neighbourhood but we dumped all of our money into that house, it’s our dream property. And now it’s completely threatened,’ says Oro-Medonte citizen Wayne Doyle, Barrie Today, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Jan 15, 2024 When Oro-Medonte Township’s Mayor Randy Gree...
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Jan 20th, 2024
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Over the past half-century, Lake Simcoe’s salt concentration has increased by over five times, says columnist Peter Bursztyn, Barrie Today, Jan 14, 2024 “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!” — From the 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Years ago, I vi...
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Jan 20th, 2024
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Oro-Medonte Township Deputy Mayor Peter Lavoie will be travelling with the township’s mayor to Ajax next week to present their side of the Barrie annexation story to the province’s standing committee on heritage, infrastructure and cultural policy. by Wayne Doyle, Barrie Today Local Journ...
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Jan 12th, 2024
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ONTARIO CLEAN AIR ALLIANCE Ontario takes baby steps on renewable energy instead of a big leap For the last five years, Ontario has been treading water on renewable energy – not contracting for one kilowatt since the election of 2018 – while the rest of the world has surged forward. Now the province s...
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