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Groundwater
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Fatigue, frustration and suspicion are dogging plans for a new landfill and waste management centre proposed just outside of Napanee.
"We've been here before, and we thought this was finally over," Mike Bossio, 49, of Lonsdale, said of the battle by Tyendinaga Township, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and a band of angry citizens to stop plans to expand the landfill in... (more)
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Environmental Law
Groundwater
Quinte Region
Waste Management
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Cavan Monaghan Township council is taking an extra step to ensure Millbrook water won't be diverted to Fraserville.
Councillors voted unanimously on Monday to write a letter asking the Ministry of the Environment to stop the environmental assessment (EA) on the controversial plan.
Although an approved EA would not automatically mean the plan would go ahead, it might open... (more)
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Environmental Law
Groundwater
Peterborough & Region
Water takings
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The Ministry of the Environment posted a proposal on the Environmental Registry on January 25, 2010 for a 60-day comment period to make amendments to O. Reg. 287/07 under the Clean Water Act, 2006 (Act), in order to set out content and consultation requirements for the development of drinking water source protection plans, and to include the necessary provisions to implement... (more)
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Environmental Law
Groundwater
Industrial Emissions
Ontario
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Whether to develop a swath of land in northeast Pickering boils down to a choice between food and floods, Ajax Mayor Steve Parish and allies from environmental groups say.
On June 2, Mayor Parish joined Sierra Club Ontario chapter director Dan McDermott in releasing a Sierra Club report supporting Ajax's stance that the headwaters of the Carruthers Creek in Pickering should... (more)
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Development & Land Use
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Durham Region
Fish
Groundwater
Swim
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The city wants to block the province from developing environmentally sensitive lands near the Eramosa Karst.
The city's planning committee voted yesterday to designate and preserve the lands near the karst as open space -- a move that pits the city against a provincial report saying developing the land won't damage the area.
"The fact of the matter is that the development... (more)
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Environmental Law
Groundwater
Hamilton and Region
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Time flies, even for those who switched from water to the purity of vodka to black out the memory of the tragedy in Walkerton 10 years ago.
If nothing else, it's a convenient ruse.
You may recall Frank Koebel, as water foreman, admitted to drinking on the job while his Ontario town's water supply became contaminated by farm runoff with a highly dangerous strain of E.... (more)
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Environmental Law
Groundwater
Ontario
Sewers & Urban Runoff
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Opponents of the expansion to the Waste Management landfill at Richmond, north of Napanee, say they'll mount a serious and vigorous campaign to put a lid on the plan, just as they did with the current site.
Waste Management, meanwhile, is embarking on a series of public "open houses" to try and sell the project as environmentally friendly.
Randy Harris, manager for the... (more)
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Development & Land Use
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Groundwater
Quinte Region
Waste Management
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