The Ogichidaakwe (Grand Chief) and Chiefs of Treaty 3 file Judicial Review related to five north west Ontario hydro generating plants.Calm Lake, Sturgeon Falls, Fort Frances, Kenora, and Norman hydroelectric generating station are the focus QUEEN’s PARK, ON – An application for Judicial [Read more]
McGuinty Government Helping To Reduce Energy Costs, Protect Jobs Ontario is helping Tembec General Partnership reduce energy costs, stay competitive and protect 550 jobs at its newsprint mill in Kapuskasing. Through the Northern Industrial Electricity Rate (NIER) program, the company is receiving [Read more]
McGuinty Government Helping To Keep Energy Costs Down, Protect Jobs Ontario is helping a gold mine in the Hemlo area near Marathon reduce its energy costs, stay competitive and protect 545 jobs Through the Northern Industrial Electricity Rate (NIER) program, Williams Operating Corporation will [Read more]
Municipality of Wawa learns more about Canada’s plan for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel Municipality of Wawa representatives visited Toronto last week to meet with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) to learn about Canada’s plan for the long-term management of used [Read more]
Eco-Energy Retrofit Program As opposition, our role is to focus on items which we believe the government is handling wrong or could do a better job at. However, it is also important to give credit where credit is due. A good example of this is the inclusion of the Eco-Energy Retrofit program in [Read more]
McGuinty Government Providing More Stability, Creating Clean Energy Jobs Ontario is making it easier for energy developers and manufacturers to do business in the province. This is part of ongoing efforts to help provide stability and create jobs in Ontario’s clean energy sector while [Read more]
McGuinty Government Partnering With Solar Renewable Technology Company Ontario is helping to launch a new clean, renewable energy business in Terrace Bay. With support from the province, Terrace Bay Solar Inc. is purchasing equipment to start a solar panel sale and installation company. The [Read more]
Northwatch to host Nuclear Waste Workshop in Wawa July 28th, 7 to 9 pm NORTH BAY, ON – Several communities in northern Ontario are allowing themselves to be studied as the possible location for an underground repository for all of Canada’s highly radioactive nuclear reactor waste as [Read more]
NORTHWATCH HOSTS PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE IN WAWA THURSDAY, JULY 28 Several communities in northern Ontario are allowing themselves to be studied as the possible location for an underground repository for all of Canada’s highly radioactive nuclear reactor waste as part of the nuclear industry’s [Read more]
McGuinty Government Supporting Clean, Renewable Energy Ontario’s clean energy economy has created 20,000 jobs to date, while supplying clean, renewable energy to power our homes and businesses. The Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre in Toronto is just one example of an organization that [Read more]
Area First Nations Create New Venture to Pursue Construction of High Voltage Transmission Line Thunder Bay, ON – Five First Nations today completed the creation of a new business venture through which they will hold their ownership interest in a proposed high voltage transmission line to be [Read more]
McGuinty Government Launches 2011 Progress Report Ontario has become a global leader in the clean energy industry, creating thousands of jobs for families and cleaning up the air we breathe. That is just some of the good news found in Ontario’s 2011 Progress Report. The annual report [Read more]
Larry Hogard is a Certified Home Inspector and Energy Advisor with Superior Inspections, based out of Thunder Bay ( www.superiorinspections.ca) and serving the entire Northshore, whose aritlces will be featured regularly on OntarioNewsNorth.com, watch the Editorial Columns list for this [Read more]
The 2011 Green Tradeshow had approximately 750 people in attendance to see the environmentally friendly exhibitor booths and videos. The Tradeshow featured a record 80 exhibitor tables encompassing the many shades of green including solar panels, pellet stoves,body products, environmentally [Read more]
A new bioenergy learning and research centre at Confederation College will create six new jobs and support research into new sources of clean, renewable energy in the Thunder Bay area. With support from the province, the college will build a bio-energy plant that will produce enough clean, [Read more]
