Posts Tagged ‘environmentalist’
Written by NetNewsLedger on 29 April 2015
PIC MOBERT FIRST NATION – “Today I had the honour and privilege to speak at a rally with a number of great speakers, leaders and community activists. The message was: NO TO NUCLEAR WASTE in their treaty, traditional lands,” stated Serpent River Chief Isadore Day. “As First Nations, we do [Read more]
Written by Reader Submission on 29 January 2015
OPEN LETTER TO SELECTED ONTARIO MPs and MLAs 26 January 2015 The Ontario Energy Board is inviting public input on the Energy East pipeline proposal. The two documents cited below have been forwarded to the Board. One document (Report on Public Meeting by Ontario Energy Board on Energy East Pipeline [Read more]
Written by Reader Submission on 17 January 2015
By Edgar J. Lavoie THUNDER BAY, ON – Over 100 concerned citizens attended the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) consultation at the Valhalla Inn on Wednesday, January 14. The Board’s technical advisors said that their studies had identified key issues with the proposed pipeline called Energy [Read more]
Written by admin on 11 December 2014
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO – The video below is Part 2 of OntarioNewsNorth.com’s conversation with Thunder Bay-Superior North MP and Green Party Deputy-Leader Bruce Hyer on the final evening of his Northwestern Ontario visit in November. Hyer travelled the region hosting Town Hall [Read more]
Written by MP Bruce Hyer on 07 November 2014
Nuclear waste disposal and transport in NWO THUNDER BAY – SUPERIOR NORTH, ON – As your MP, I feel strongly that the citizens of Thunder Bay—Superior North and Northwestern Ontario should have an opportunity to think about the critical decisions that affect you and share your [Read more]
Written by Ontario Newsroom on 27 October 2014
Ontario Launches Remote Electrification Readiness Program Ontario is helping to prepare remote First Nation communities in northwestern Ontario for future connection to the province’s electricity grid. The Remote Electrification Readiness Program will support the development of community [Read more]
Written by Township of Terrace Bay on 20 June 2014
TERRACE BAY, ON – The Township of Terrace Bay held a public forum June 17th to discuss changes to its garbage collection as well as the introduction of a recycling program. Approximately 80 people were in attendance to listen and ask questions of municipal staff and council. Mayor Jody [Read more]
Written by Reader Submission on 28 September 2013
From Edgar J. Lavoie, Greenstone, ON Ten Questions to Ask Energy East TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline is holding information centres in our region. I attended the one in Geraldton on September 26th. I studied the maps and the poster boards, and collected the literature. I did not [Read more]
Written by Press Release on 11 June 2012
Nuclear Waste Workshops in Spanish, White River, Manitouwadge, Blind River and Elliot Lake 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 [Read more]
Written by Ontario Newsroom on 18 May 2010
McGuinty Government Encouraged At Spirit Of Cooperation The Ontario government is encouraged to see environmental groups and forest companies working together to help develop a plan that would lead to both a healthy and a prosperous Canadian forest. The historic Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, [Read more]