About Waterkeeper (668 articles) Since 2001, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper has been patrolling the lake, documenting pollution, and fighting for environmental justice for every community. We are proud members of Waterkeeper Alliance.
|  | When a warm sun threatened Wolfe Island’s annual hockey tournament, the locals left the rink and turned to the lake.Go ahead. Ask me. What’s it like to win the Lake Ontario Cup? Say again? You’ve never heard of the Lake Ontario Cup?Truth be told, neither had I — until Wayne Grady mentioned in late January that he and some other writers were heading to a hockey... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Kingston and Region |
|  | On Aug. 11-12 this year, Hamiltonian Melanie Price will attempt to swim across Lake Ontario from Port Dalhousie to Oakville.The 42.2km swim is meant to raise funds for Lake Ontario Waterkeeper (LOW), a registered charity working to restore and maintain the ability to swim, drink and fish in Lake Ontario. Through the swim, Melanie hopes to increase awareness of the need to... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Swim |
|  | The <I>Globe and Mail's</I> Anna Mehler Paperny contributed a lengthy feature on the effects of the Fukushima nuclear crisis on the nuclear industry in Canada. We encourage you to read the piece in its entirety, because it covers a range of issues. Of special interest to Waterkeeper is the discussion about regulation.
In Canada, it’s now the purview of the... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Canada Drink Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Nuclear Industry |
| | | While Japan undergoes the agony of a nuclear accident, the future of Canada’s nuclear industry has raised barely a ripple in the current federal election campaign.It’s not for lack of meat in the issue. Consider:The future of the federally owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., which produces and maintains Canada’s Candu reactors, hangs in the balance — the... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Canada Drink Environmental Law Fish Nuclear Industry |
| | | Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is quoted in this recent article by Stephen Leahy about nuclear regulation around the globe.
The industry is always overstating the safety and benefits and understating the costs and risks," said Mark Mattson of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, a local environmental NGO."It's impossible to get them to provide evidence to support their claims," he... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Canada Drink Environmental Law Fish Nuclear Industry |
| | | Ontario Power Generation shouldn’t be granted a license to start work on new nuclear reactors at Darlington because it hasn’t shown how it will mitigate damage to the environment, a panel probing the reactors has been told.“It is clear OPG’s application should not be approved,” Mark Mattson, president of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, told the panel.“There will... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Durham Region Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Nuclear Industry Ontario |
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