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Shipping
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Since the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, shipping has had dramatic impacts on the Great Lakes. Dredging to accommodate large ships alters the flow of water and contributes to shoreline erosion in some areas. The contaminated materials that are dug up during dredging are often stored in open areas, contaminating the birds and fish that frequent them. In Canada, the corporations that manage our major ports (Harbour Commissions and Port Authorities) often disagree with local communities about the best uses for our waterfront. Meanwhile, ships often dump waste cargo and contaminated ballast water out in the lake, releasing chemicals, metals, and invasive species.
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Large trucks move back and forth along the berm near Gifford Hill by Oshawa’s harbour.
And according to the Friends of Second Marsh, the berm continues to grow by the hour.
The community group appealed to members of the Development Services Committee recently to try and get to the bottom of what the Oshawa Harbour Commission (OHC) is doing at the harbour.
“It has... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Durham Region
Environmental Law
Fish
Shipping
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The Burlington office of Lloyd's Register, whose work involves surveying and classifying ships, is celebrating the company's 250th anniversary by teaming up with the Bay Area Restoration Council (BARC) to help restore and protect the Hamilton Harbour watershed.
Jasmine MacCharles, one of 21 local staffers, said offices around the world were asked to propose charitable... (more)
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Hamilton and Region
Shipping
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Councillors optimistic project is dead, FarmTech says no decision yet
OSHAWA -- For the second time in four months, the company planning to build an ethanol plant at the Oshawa waterfront has pulled its environmental applications.
Councillors are cautiously optimistic this could spell the end of the project, but FarmTech Energy officials aren't framing things in such... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Durham Region
Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Shipping
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Comment period extended to Feb. 6
OSHAWA -- The opportunity for the public to comment on an ethanol plant application from FarmTech Energy has been extended to Feb. 6.
Just before Christmas, the company planning to build an ethanol plant at the Oshawa port resumed its efforts, only days after Oshawa council voted in favour of a landmark deal that could see the city's... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Durham Region
Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Shipping
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The Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) is one of Canada’s oldest laws. When it passed in 1882, the idea of protecting an individual's right to navigate public waterways was not revolutionary. The Act stemmed from a variety of well-established and respected conventions, including tradition, principles of common law, Magna Carta, and the Code of Justinian. In this sense,... (more)
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Shipping
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The Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) is one of Canada’s oldest laws. The NWPA was not revolutionary; it drew from a variety of well-established and respected conventions, including tradition, principles of common law, Magna Carta, and the Code of Justinian. In this sense, the NWPA was “born with a grey beard”, coming into force on the shoulders of centuries-old... (more)
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Shipping
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Detroit -- They've been doing this work for almost 50 years now -- pushing the mammoth freighters on the Detroit River into port, towing them out and occasionally breaking the ice ahead of them. But the Gaelic Tugboat Co. has rarely seen a year like it endured in 2009.
Along with the entire shipping industry, the family-owned, Detroit-based operation has been strangled by... (more)
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Shipping
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The annual Thousand Islands Poker Run is often held up as a symbol of conspicuous waste of energy and environmental indifference.
But a new report by the city's environmental committee -- the first comprehensive report ever done on the impact of the annual event using independent data and figures from the boaters themselves -- suggests that the impact of the event is more... (more)
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Fish
Kingston and Region
Shipping
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Twenty years after the pervasive zebra mussel was first detected in the Great Lakes, the U.S. Coast Guard is preparing rules to prevent new invasive species from infiltrating the nation's freshwater systems.
Ecologists, environmentalists and public officials have mixed feelings about the rules. Some expressed their sentiments during a public comment period that ended earlier... (more)
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Environmental Law
Fish
Great Lakes-Basin
Shipping
U.S.A.
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It is late December. Down on the river, several bays are starting to ice over now. Open areas of water seem to be steaming, emitting vapour-like trails of rising mist river men call sea-smoke. Navigation on the St. Lawrence River is coming to a close. Outside, in downtown Brockville, it is beginning to snow.
If any of this unsettled weather bothers the man seated in front of... (more)
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Kingston and Region
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Shipping
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