Farming (185 articles) "Farming" is a broad topic, that includes both agriculture and aquaculture. Agriculture is one of the dominant land uses along the south shores of Lake Ontario, as well as in the Bay of Quinte region. While not all farming has negative impacts on Lake Ontario, factory farms – hogs in Ontario, cattle in New York State – have taken their toll in recent years. Aquaculture – fish farming – is more common in other areas of the Great Lakes but is a growing practice.
|  | Trent Hills – A proposed organic fertilizer facility in Warkworth will use waste from chicken and hog farms, slaughter houses, meat processing plants, cold storage food facilities and pulp and paper plants to provide the right balance of protein, nitrogen and carbon for its product, says the president of Bio Balance Fertilizer Inc.In a preview of this week's public... (more) | | Environmental Law Farming Other Quinte Region |
|  | But environmental review says land can be developedA just-released report says there are no environmental reasons to stop homes being built on land next to the Eramosa Karst Conservation Area.The environmental assessment study concluded that "subject to proper implementation of the mitigation recommendations ... these lands can be developed without impacting the... (more) | | Development & Land Use Farming Fish Hamilton and Region |
|  | Stirling-Rawdon – Council will budget $200,000 to pay for sludge removal this summer in the north lagoon.Council passed a motion at its Jan. 18 meeting of council to have Terretec Environmental complete the mixing, pumping, haulage and land application of biosolids from the north lagoon, making only a few changes to the company's proposal.Terretec will also carry out... (more) | | Drink Farming Fish Quinte Region Sewers & Urban Runoff Swim |
| | | Environmentalists are pushing the city to look at sensible ways, including incineration, to get rid of the biosolidsCity Hall attracts all sorts of weird lobbies and interest groups. Maureen Reilly's is weirder than most. As the director of the environmental group Sludge Watch, she has an intense interest in how Toronto disposes of the leftovers of its excreta.For a... (more) | | Environmental Law Farming Fish Ontario Sewers & Urban Runoff Swim |
| | | Rural life may seem bucolic but when people leave dirty, crowded cities for more beautiful, open spaces they often get a rude awakeningWendy Deavitt remembers the day in 2001 when she spotted her dream home in the country. At the end of a tree-dotted gravel driveway stood the farmhouse and adjacent horse barn that turned her fantasy about rural living into a reality.... (more) | | Drink Environmental Law Farming Ontario Sewers & Urban Runoff |
| | | Niagara Region wants you to think beyond the flush.For the first time since 2001, the regional government is updating its biosolids master plan.That means planners are brainstorming ways to deal with our sewage sludge, the watery muck left over after regional sewage treatment plants, er, do their business.Niagara's 13 sewage plants can produce more than 375,000... (more) | | Drink Environmental Law Farming Fish Niagara Region Sewers & Urban Runoff Swim |
| | | Trent Hills – Wendy and William Deavitt are taking their battle against biosolids into the courtroom. They have filed a lawsuit in Canada's Superior Civil Court against the Town of Cobourg and Terry and Sandra Greenly, of Warkworth, claiming a total of $650,000 in damages for the physical suffering and financial loss they say were the result of waste sludge from Cobourg's... (more) | | Drink Environmental Law Farming Fish Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region Sewers & Urban Runoff Swim |
| | | Prince Edward-Hastings MP Daryl Kramp announced $160,400 for the Bay of Quinte remediation projects Wednesday, noting the money is part of $2.2 million being used to fund 38 projects throughout the Great Lakes. Of those 38 projects four are based in the Bay of Quinte region.AT LARGEThe majority of the funding, said Quinte Conservation general managerTerry Murphy, will... (more) | | Farming Fish Quinte Region Sewers & Urban Runoff |
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