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Hamilton and Region
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Hamilton Harbour is one of Lake Ontario's most notoriously contaminated areas. Most of the rivers that once flowed from the Niagara Escarpment to Lake Ontario have been buried. The shoreline is very industrialized, dominated mostly by the steel industry. More recently, construction of the Red Hill Creek Expressway developed one of the last remaining greenspaces feeding Lake Ontario in the area. Hamilton Harbour is one of Lake Ontario's "Areas of Concern." The city and surrounding region are home to some half a million people.
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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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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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The group leading the revitalization of a one-kilometre stretch of Bronte Creek that runs through Lowville Park was able to fish funding from the federal government.
News broke yesterday that Trout Unlimited Canada, a national, not-for-profit, charitable conservation organization, is receiving $90,000 for the project.
The creek restoration is one of seven new Ontario... (more)
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Comment Period: 32 days: submissions may be made between August 12, 2010 and September 13, 2010.
Dufferin Aggregates has applied for an Aggregate Resources Act licence for a Class “A” Quarry below Water to excavate mineral aggregate from a quarry of 124.4 hectares in size. This application is for the expansion of an existing quarry. The annual tonnage condition applied... (more)
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They are shot at and gassed south of the border.
But in Hamilton, Canada geese are just considered a nuisance.
The birds have been exterminated in the U.S. for being airplane-flight hazards -- some had flown into the engines of US Airways Flight 1549 in January last year, forcing the plane to famously land on the Hudson River.
In Hamilton, officials are more worried... (more)
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Problem: Goose poop fouling our beaches.
Easiest solution: Shoot the fouling fowls.
The easiest solution to any problem is not always the best one.
When it comes to problems involving wildlife, there is an almost universal fear of even discussing the possibility that the controlled killing off of pests might be the only real solution. It's as if there are 4,000 Canada... (more)
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Was it a 100-year storm or a two-year storm?
If part of the problem is debris-blocked drains, why isn't someone clearing them regularly and particularly if a lot of rain is expected?
Is it a design flaw or the inevitable result of building a highway through a creek valley?
All valid questions. And we need answers when it comes to the flooding of the Red Hill Valley... (more)
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Something needs to be done, and quick.
That's the message from Hamilton residents who say they are tired of politicians, engineers and bureaucrats failing to properly deal with the flooding issues on the Red Hill Valley Parkway.
Speaking from a bar stool in a pub on the banks of one of the parkway's flooding flashpoints on Barton Street, Barry Stewart, of Stoney Creek,... (more)
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A highly regarded engineer has slammed the City of Hamilton's decision to build a highway through the area's last greenspace "come hell or high water."
Professor Brian Baetz, chair of civil engineering at McMaster, said the engineers behind the Red Hill Valley Parkway do not deserve the blame for continued flooding that put lives at risk in the valley during last week's... (more)
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The city has admitted it needs to review how it responds to flooding on the Red Hill Valley Parkway after the latest of four heavy rainfalls in less than a year put motorists' lives at risk.
The admission comes after Ron Sheckenberger, the project manager of the parkway drainage system from AMEC Earth and Environmental, said both police and the city should have acted on... (more)
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