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Cameco’s lenient licence standards threaten water quality

January 6th, 2012

Cameco Corporation has applied for a renewed five-year licence for its uranium conversion facility in Port Hope, Ontario. The plant is located at the heart of one of Lake Ontario’s most historic and environmentally vulnerable harbours. For decades, nuclear-related industrial pollution has affected water quality and the natural environment in and around Port... (more)

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Why Nelson Aggregate’s quarry should be denied

November 22nd, 2011

On Monday, November 14th, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper travelled to Burlington, Ontario to present to a Joint Board that is determining the fate of Mount Nemo -- an area of the Niagara Escarpment that is threatened by an aggregate proposal by Nelson Aggregate.Our counsel, Joanna Bull, presented to the group of decision makers about LOW’s concerns regarding the proposal. The... (more)

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Canada should charge industry for water: Report

November 20th, 2011

Mike de Souza of PostMedia writes about a new report that suggests industrial water users should pay for the water they use. The report also suggests that Canada should create a new inventory of its water resources: The panel, appointed by the federal government to provide advice on environmental and economic issues, said that industry accounts for about 86 per cent of... (more)

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Ferris wheel pitchman says ‘only Rob Ford’ listened – The Globe and Mail

September 15th, 2011

When Councillor Doug Ford introduced the notion of a waterfront Ferris wheel for the moribund Port Lands, one person in Toronto wasn’t a bit surprised.John Kowal has talked to countless civic leaders about his money-making proposition for the city. The 77-year-old retired manufacturing engineer says he has been pitching a giant wheel modelled after the London Eye for... (more)

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Toronto News: We can pay for Port Lands plan, Waterfront Toronto says – thestar.com

September 8th, 2011

In a challenge to Mayor Rob Ford, Waterfront Toronto’s board chair says the agency will have no problem coming up with the money for flood protection in the Port Lands.Ford cited Waterfront Toronto’s supposed inability to fund the $634 million flood protection project as a main reason council should dismiss its plans for a Port Lands neighbourhood and put the city-owned... (more)

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Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts | Ford Focus | torontolife.com

September 8th, 2011

The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the paper’s not-so-surprising revelations is that Ford’s plans could very well require “a significantly revised environmental assessment,” which would amount to a major speed bump (read: millions of dollars) for the project. In other words, if... (more)

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New Toronto Port Lands strategy involved private talks with mall operator – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

Toronto Councillor Doug Ford held private talks with real estate and business leaders and one of the world’s largest mall operators to produce a proposal that will fundamentally change the publicly approved strategy for the eastern Port Lands and put a large retail centre where the mouth of the Don River was supposed to flow. Councillor Ford, the brother of Mayor Rob Ford... (more)

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Doug Ford’s Ferris Wheel idea not so loopy after all – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

When Doug Ford started talking about a glitzy new project for Toronto’s Port Lands, complete with monorail, mega-mall and giant Ferris Wheel, critics dismissed it as a back-of-the-napkin scheme from a suburban cowboy. It deserves a closer look than that.In the past couple of days, other officials in the administration of Mayor Rob Ford have been fleshing out the... (more)

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Opinion: Stick to waterfront plan – thestar.com

September 1st, 2011

Successful redevelopment of an urban waterfront takes a long time. We are now in the tenth year of a 25-year program to revitalize Toronto’s central waterfront — perhaps the largest urban regeneration project in North America. It is a pity that the decade-long federal-provincial-municipal consensus may be shattered just when the project is poised to forge ahead.My... (more)

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Doug Ford’s blurry “backroom vision” – thestar.com

September 1st, 2011

I stopped paying attention to Toronto’s waterfront revitalization a few years ago, but not for the reason you might imagine. I did so because real progress was being made. Finally.I’m paying attention again because a careless city councillor would destroy all the gains, in search of a chintzy, unsustainable, dubious plan conceived behind closed doors:Monorail where... (more)

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