Waste Management (1234 articles) Canada’s first successful citizen-led prosecutions under the Fisheries Act centred around leaking landfill sites. From Kingston and Hamilton, Ontario to Moncton, New Brunswick, founding members of the Waterkeeper movement have been instrumental in protecting waterways from toxic leachate. Most of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper’s current landfill research is located in the City of Toronto.
|  | A Frontenac County municipality is breaking the law by continuing to allow contaminants to seep from a landfill into an adjacent wetland, said an environmental lawyer and advocate.Mark Mattson, president of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, said if South Frontenac Township’s Portland landfill near Verona is leaking contaminated surface water into the nearby wetland, the... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Environmental Law Fish Kingston and Region Waste Management |
|  | The old adage 'waste not, want not,' might as well be the motto for one of the proposed residual waste processing systems for the City of Kingston.Currently seeking public input, the city is in Phase B of its four-part development of an integrated waste management plan. Last week, the city hosted a public information session on the proposed ideas to deal with solid waste in... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels Kingston and Region Other Waste Management |
| | | Timothy Chipp in the Niagara Gazette writes about a NY State radioactive waste site on November 12, 2011:
The LOOW site was established after the federal government seized 7,200 acres of land in 1941, in the area now occupied partially by the Lewiston-Porter School District, for the purposes of creating the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT). Production lasted only nine months in... (more) | | (0 comments) Drink Environmental Law New York State Nuclear Industry Waste Management |
| | | A minor explosion happened at the Ashbridge's Bay waste water treatment plant on Saturday morning, according to Toronto Police.Toronto Water confirmed that a fire started at the pelletizer facility of the treatment plant at about 8:45 a.m. The pelletizer is operated by Veolia Water Canada Inc. on behalf of the city, turning sewage sludge into pellets the company sells as... (more) | | (0 comments) Drink Fish Greater Toronto Region Sewers & Urban Runoff Waste Management |
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