Ontario Farmland Trust email March 22 2012The Farmland Trust has just launched an online Farmland Preservation Awareness survey. Survey participates are asked general questions about their awareness of land conservation, land use policies and agriculture in their community. We hope to have a diversit...
Email from Mike Nickerson March 22 2012When we can see a solution, it's easier to admit that there is a problem.Transition Orillia and Lakehead University are hosting an evening aboutLiving on Earth as if we want to stay...
Committee Findings To Help Shape Long-Term Aggregates Plan for OntarioOntario government news release March 22, 2012The Standing Committee on General Government, an all-party committee of the legislature, has been directed by the Ontario legislature to develop recommendations to strengthen the Aggreg...
The Canadian Press Mar 22, 2012Ontario’s Liberal government announced Thursday it would lower the premiums it pays for future wind and solar energy projects, but electricity bills will keep rising.Read more...
Visit a wetland near you and connect with waterAWARE Simcoe March 22 2012There are more wetlands in Canada than in any other country in the world. Canada is home to about one quarter of the world's wetlands, covering 14 percent of our country....
New Tecumseth Free Press March 22, 2012New Tecumseth ratepayers will contribute $10.39 million in property taxes or 9.75 per cent of the $106.6 million Simcoe County will collect from taxation in 2012 for its purposes, from the 16 lower tier member municipalities.Read more...
By CHERYL BROWNE – Barrie Examiner – March 22 2012The heady scent of warm cedar wood chips rises from the forest floor as purple and yellow primroses poke out from the underbrush. Read more...
Email from Simcoe Solar Awareness Project March 21 2012It’s a Bad FIT for Ontario!The Wind Industry Barons are blowing into Toronto for the Ontario Feed In Tariff Forum April 3 & 4th at the Metro Convention Center, 255 Front Street West....
Ending federal oversight of fresh water proves hard for some provinces to swallowThe Canadian Press Mar 21, 2012 Next week’s budget will propose a streamlined environmental assessment process, something that will delight the oil patch and give provinces a larger say over resource development.Re...
Business community cautiously optimisticBy By Sean Pearce Simcoe.com Mar 08, 2012Has downtown Bradford’s time finally come? The local business community certainly hopes so. So much so, in fact, that the Bradford Board of Trade has struck a downtown committee of its own to keep tabs on the town’s revi...