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Water takings
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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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Peterborough & Region
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It was about a year ago that a group of concerned Millbrookarea residents packed Cavan Monaghan Tow nship council chambers to have their say on a plan to pipe Millbrook water to a proposed new community in Fraserville.
On Tuesday, that plan was dealt its death blow in a 3-2 vote by township council.
"This is the end of a long journey," said Jane Zednik, who has been part... (more)
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Development & Land Use
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Environmental Law
Peterborough & Region
Water takings
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Ontario Power Generation has high hopes that a fish barrier net installed at the mouth of the Pickering nuclear plant's intake will significantly reduce the number of fish sucked in every year.
The intake draws water from the lake into the plant and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has asked OPG to reduce the number of fish lost in the intake by 80 per... (more)
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Durham Region
Environmental Law
Fish
Nuclear Industry
Water takings
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Legislation to prevent Americans from diverting rivers that cross border doesn’t go far enough, council says
A federal proposal to keep water in Canadian rivers and lakes from being exported wholesale to an increasingly thirsty United States will not stop the Americans if drought convinces them to come after Canada’s greatest natural resource, experts say.
An act... (more)
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Great Lakes-Basin
U.S.A.
Water takings
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A Kingston business has been awarded $2.5 million from the Ministry of Research and Innovation.
Kingston and the Islands MPP John Gerretsen presented the grant, from the Innovation Demon stration Fund, to Endetec yesterday at Innovation Park.
Endetec, the global sensor platform of Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies, was founded by Queen's University researchers who... (more)
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Industrial Emissions
Kingston and Region
Sewers & Urban Runoff
Water takings
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A major segment of the economy of the greater Montreal area and much of Ontario depends on international marine transport involving the container ship terminal at the Port of Montreal. However, declining water levels in the river systems that lie upstream of Montreal have the potential to adversely impact commercial marine operations along the Lower St Lawrence River to the... (more)
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Great Lakes-Basin
Shipping, boating & navigation
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Water takings
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McGuinty Government Working to Make Ontario A Clean Water Leader
As part of its Open Ontario Plan the province is taking steps to make Ontario the leading clean water jurisdiction in North America.
To be introduced later today, the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act would, if passed, encourage the creation and export of innovative clean water technology, promote... (more)
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Ontario
Water takings
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WATER OPPORTUNITIES AND WATER CONSERVATION ACT, 2010 /
LOI DE 2010 SUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES TECHNOLOGIES DE L'EAU ET
LA CONSERVATION DE L'EAU
Mr. Gerretsen moved first reading of the following bill:
Bill 72, An Act to enact the Water Opportunities Act, 2010 and to amend other Acts in respect of water conservation and other matters / Projet de loi 72, Loi édictant la... (more)
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Ontario
Water takings
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Last week, the Canadian federal government proposed legislation to ban bulk water removals from “transboundary waters” – meaning waters that cross the U.S.-Canada boundary. To explain the legislation and how it fits within Canada’s other water protection efforts and challenges, Professor Marcia Valiante of the University of Windsor Faculty of Law generously agreed to... (more)
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Canada
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