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Industrial Emissions
(1938 articles)
This is the kind of pollution we most commonly associate with pollution – waste water and smokestacks releasing contaminants into the natural environment. On Lake Ontario, major industrial emissions are regulated by provincial (MISA) and state (Clean Water Act) rules. These laws give citizens the opportunity to comment on licences and to hold polluters accountable when they break the rules.
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Stirling Creamery has been fined $28,000 for an accidental fuel spill into Rawdon Creek.
Ontario's environment ministry reported the Jan. 18 spill of 800 to 1,000 litres of diesel fuel happened when the fuel was pumped accidentally out of a tank.
The resulting cleanup took two weeks, but officials said most of the fuel ended up on the ice covering the creek. The municipal... (more)
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Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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The Hamilton Port Authority has submitted the Randle Reef containment design to the federal government for approval, sparking optimism the project to enclose toxic sediment in the harbour will finally go forward.
"Thank God," said Jim Hudson, executive-director of the Bay Area Restoration Council (BARC). "We're going forward on a project selected to be the best solution that... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Drink
Fish
Hamilton and Region
Industrial Emissions
Swim
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The Ontario Ministry of the Environment is investigating a possible petroleum spill in Shoreacres Creek at Nelson Park.
The discovery of the unknown liquid in the creek was made by Antero Manninen, who noticed something was out of the ordinary on Monday.
A five-year resident of the neighbourhood, Manninen was on one of his regular walks with his four-year-old son through... (more)
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Environmental Law
Fish
Greater Toronto Region
Hamilton and Region
Industrial Emissions
Swim
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Seaway officials will dig into a buried canal remnant in Thorold, after local explorers stumbled across a smelly yellow substance now identified as sulphur.
Rene Ressler, a heritage buff who runs the Welland Canals Advocate website, found a wide expanse of "sulphur smelling" material atop what he believes to be the filled-in southern approach to Lock 25 of the third Welland... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Industrial Emissions
Niagara Region
Other
Shipping, boating & navigation
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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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Drink
Environmental Law
Groundwater
Industrial Emissions
Ontario
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In 1991, pregnant with her first child, Ellen Smith and her husband bought a house on Rodney Street in Port Colborne, Ont., a stone’s throw from the smokestacks of the Inco plant, where nickel was refined for the better part of the 20th century. The aptly named Nickel Street runs through her working-class neighbourhood.
It wasn’t until a decade after she moved in that... (more)
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Environmental Law
Industrial Emissions
Ontario
Other
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If he could, Rene Ressler would dig up every buried remnant of the third Welland Canal in the name of historical preservation.
At Lock 25 in Thorold, however, he'd settle for shovelling in the name of environmental health.
Ressler, an avid canal explorer who runs The Welland Canals Advocate website, recently stumbled across a smelly, bright yellow substance spread across... (more)
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Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Niagara Region
Shipping, boating & navigation
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Cameco's uranium dioxide (UO2) plant was voluntarily shut down on June 30 to investigate an exceeded an action level for uranium emissions, a press release issued July 15 by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) states.
On June 29, in accordance with reporting requirements, Cameco notified the CNSC that it had potentially exceeded an action level from its UO2 plant... (more)
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Environmental Law
Industrial Emissions
Nuclear Industry
Other
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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Mercury levels in a species of Lake Erie game fish are increasing after two decades of steady decline, scientists report.
The joint study by researchers from the Ontario and federal government and the University of Toronto is the most comprehensive to date on mercury levels in Great Lakes fish, and was published in the journal ACS Environmental Science &... (more)
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Fish
Great Lakes-Basin
Industrial Emissions
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