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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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Don't count out swimming at Hamilton's public beaches this summer just yet.
A new water quality study, with research starting today, is aiming to help people know when and where it's safe to swim.
The city's public health officials, along with the McMaster Institute for Environment and Health, will try to determine whether there's a link between water safety and... (more)
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Hamilton and Region
Swim
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Now that the city has laid out a broad vision for a bustling west harbour, the next step will be finding the money to make it happen.
It's expected to come from the public and private sectors, and partnerships between the two.
The city is working toward setting up an arm's length but municipally owned waterfront development corporation that would either develop land... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Environmental Law
Hamilton and Region
Swim
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1854 cholera outbreak led to pumphouse
Clean, cool water in abundance is celebrated by the powerful jets and splashing cascades of the Gore Park fountain being rededicated today.
The original fountain installed 150 years ago marked an accomplishment of which the growing city was proud -- completion of a pumphouse on the shore of Lake Ontario, a reservoir on the side of... (more)
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Drink
Environmental Law
Hamilton and Region
Sewers & Urban Runoff
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Mr. Tim Hudak: My question is to the minister responsible for the Ontario Realty Corp. Minister, as you know, the Eramosa karst is a rare geological feature formed by water dissolving the limestone over 13,000 years on the Niagara escarpment. Its caves, valleys and sinking streams cannot be found anywhere else in our entire province, which is why previous governments have all... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Drink
Groundwater
Hamilton and Region
Ontario
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The city has announced the list of residents selected for the waterfront access and protection advisory committee, which will work towards creating a vision for the future development of Burlington’s waterfront. The successful candidates are:
• Les Armstrong – Ward 1
• Ken Harris – Ward 1
• Mohammad Alizadeh – Ward 2
• Sarah Banks – Ward 2
•... (more)
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Fish
Hamilton and Region
Swim
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OAKVILLE – The ministry of environment says it will use regulatory powers if it has to to get a gasoline spill in Bronte Creek cleaned up quickly.
A ministry spokesperson says the 300-metre long spill in the creek is being watched closely.
Gasoline began seeping March 11 from a pipeline owned by Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. on property owned by Suncor March... (more)
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Energy & Fossil Fuels
Environmental Law
Fish
Hamilton and Region
Industrial Emissions
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But Nelson opposition groups still want area declared off limits
Nelson Quarry has reduced the size of its proposed extension by half to protect significant woodlands and wetlands that include habitat for the endangered Jefferson salamander.
The company announced this week that it was reducing to 42 hectares the area it's applying to quarry on Mount Nemo. The original... (more)
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Hamilton and Region
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PERL unimpressed by promise of smaller footprint
The extraction area is shrinking for Nelson Aggregate’s controversial quarry expansion proposal in north Burlington, but opposition still looms large.
The company announced Monday it’ll reduce the area to 42.3 hectares to meet the Ministry of Natural Resources’ (MNR) updated extraction footprint.
Nelson... (more)
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Hamilton and Region
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