Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

Marathon Palladium Project: Public Invited to Submit Comments | Projet de palladium de Marathon: Membres du publique invités à soumettre leurs commentaires

Marathon Palladium Project: Public Invited to Submit Comments | Projet de palladium de Marathon: Membres du publique invités à soumettre leurs commentaires

From: Environmental Assessment for the Marathon Palladium project IAAC The Joint Review Panel (the Panel) conducting the environmental assessment for the proposed Marathon Palladium Project is announcing the receipt of the amended environmental impact statement (EIS Addendum) (CIAR# 727) [Read more]

Ontario Must Make Moratorium on Water Bottling Permanent

Ontario Must Make Moratorium on Water Bottling Permanent

The Council of Canadians is available to comment about the Government of Ontario’s proposal to extend the moratorium on new permits for bottled water production facilities until next October, four years since the moratorium was first enacted.  Council of Canadians supporters have sent more [Read more]

Ben Lecomte’s Swim Ends With 1,000 New Scientific Samples… What’s Next?

Ben Lecomte’s Swim Ends With 1,000 New Scientific Samples… What’s Next?

FROM http://www.youtube.com/Seeker Broken sails don’t mean broken spirits for Ben Lecomte and his team. After six grueling months on the water, ‘Seeker’ has landed in Hawaii with a treasure trove of rare data and a commitment to a cleaner future. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Not [Read more]

Blind River & Elliot Lake Participation In NWMO Site Selection Ends

Blind River & Elliot Lake Participation In NWMO Site Selection Ends

NWMO provides funding to recognize leadership in advancing Canada’s Plan TORONTO, ON – The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) will focus efforts on fewer areas in the site selection process for a deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel. The area around Blind River and Elliot [Read more]

NDP Statement on English-Wabigoon River Clean-up

NDP Statement on English-Wabigoon River Clean-up

ELLIOT LAKE, ON – NDP Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Critic Michael Mantha issued the following statement regarding recently-announced funding for the cleanup of mercury contamination in the English-Wabigoon River: “After forty years and of living with the toxic legacy of the [Read more]

Walleye Spawning Beds To Be Improved Using Environmental Penalties Fund

UPDATE: Ontario Community Environment Fund (OCEF) Watersheds Canada has been awarded an OCEF grant of over $960 from funds collected from environmental penalties. The organization will use the funds to improve two existing walleye spawning beds on Twin Sisters Lake by first making an assessment of [Read more]

Grassy Narrows Welcomes Wynne’s Clean-up Promise Calling For Swift Results

Grassy Narrows Welcomes Wynne’s Clean-up Promise Calling For Swift Results

Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister is responding today to a new commitment made on Friday by Premier Wynne to clean the English-Wabigoon River.  The river has been highly contaminated since 1962 when a paper company in Dryden began dumping 9,000 kg of untreated mercury waste into the river [Read more]

Prince Rupert Gas Transmission and Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs Sign Agreement

HAZELTON, BC – Marketwired- TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) (NYSE:TRP) (TransCanada) today announced that its Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project (PRGT) has signed a project agreement with 12 hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan Nation. The hereditary chiefs each represent a Wilp (house [Read more]

Glimpse Into Changing NWMO Plans at Conference Attended by Regional Representatives

Glimpse Into Changing NWMO Plans at Conference Attended by Regional Representatives

by Brennain Lloyd, Northwatch OTTAWA, ON – For north of Superior communities involved in the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s “Learn More” program, revisions to the design and layout of the NWMO’s nuclear waste burial plans might mean it’s more a case of “learn again” as [Read more]

Town hall discussion on clean growth and climate change in Thunder Bay

Town hall discussion on clean growth and climate change in Thunder Bay

THUNDER BAY, ON – The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Superior North and Mr. Don Rusnak, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Rainy River held two town hall sessions today on clean growth and climate change. The town halls provided an opportunity for constituents [Read more]

Holy Angels Students Lunching Waste-Free This Week

Holy Angels Students Lunching Waste-Free This Week

SCHREIBER, ON – This week, the Grade 1/2 class at Holy Angels School are participating in the of Waste-Free Lunches. From October 19th to 23rd students are observing, sorting and recording their own classroom lunch materials.The Waste-Free Lunch Challenge is a province wide initiative run [Read more]

Anglers Fined $3,000 for Catching Walleye Out of Season

Anglers Fined $3,000 for Catching Walleye Out of Season

Two Northwestern Ontario residents have been fined $1,500 each for catching and keeping walleye out of season.    Kristi Kasprick of Beardmore and Kenneth Labbe of Thunder Bay pleaded guilty to fishing for walleye during the closed season and were each fined $1,500. Court heard that on May 15, [Read more]

$500 Fine and $2,200 Costs for Failing to Extinguish Fire Near Wawa

$500 Fine and $2,200 Costs for Failing to Extinguish Fire Near Wawa

WAWA, ON – A Sault Ste. Marie man has been fined $500 for failing to extinguish a fire that spread to a nearby forest. Jeffrey Fleming pleaded guilty and was fined $500 for failing to extinguish a fire that spread to a nearby forest. He was also ordered to pay $2,200 to the Ministry of [Read more]

Assistance Req’d to Indentify Individuals Who Discarded Moose Meat Near Manitouwadge

Assistance Req’d to Indentify Individuals Who Discarded Moose Meat Near Manitouwadge

Ministry Seeks Public’s Help in Identifying Individuals who Discarded Moose Meat The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is seeking the public’s help in identifying the individuals responsible for discarding moose meat near Manitouwadge. Conservation officers received a complaint on the [Read more]

Public Interest Groups Issue Open Letter to Gov’t of Ontario RE: Nuclear Waste Burial

Public Interest Groups Issue Open Letter to Gov’t of Ontario RE: Nuclear Waste Burial

From: Northwatch Federal Report is Flawed – Ontario Must Take Action QUEENS PARK, ON  – Calling the federal review report issued last week on a proposal to bury nuclear waste beside Lake Huron “deeply flawed”, one hundred public interest groups have issued an “Open Letter to the [Read more]

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