Hamilton and Region (1255 articles) 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.
|  | Environment Hamilton says independent testing has revealed “world-record breaking” levels of a synthetic chemical at the edge of the Hamilton International Airport.The sediment tests showed 170 parts per billion – more than three times the highest recorded level in the world – of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS).The revelation comes on the heels of a... (more) | | Fish Hamilton and Region |
|  | U.S. Steel will have to ante up before Halton will help fund the Randle Reef cleanup.The steelmaker has committed $7 million to the project, but the region says its $2-million contribution will depend on U.S. Steel chipping in a fairer share of the project costs — between $12 million and $14 million.“They can do that in kind with steel, but the value has to be up... (more) | | Fish Hamilton and Region Industrial Emissions Swim Waste Management |
|  | Hamilton International Airport president and chief executive officer Richard Koroscil and Environment Hamilton officials agreed to share information to determine where toxic contaminants are leaking from the airport and into the Welland River tributary system.The verbal agreement was made April 22 after Dr. Joe Minor a biologist and director of Environment Hamilton,... (more) | | Environmental Law Fish Hamilton and Region Industrial Emissions Sewers & Urban Runoff |
|  | The Ontario government is using a rarely-used provincial power to prevent St. Marys Cement from developing a quarry in Flamborough.At a news conference at his Waterdown constituency office April 21, Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale Liberal MPP Ted McMeekin announced the Liberal government has declared the Ontario Municipal Board hearing reviewing an application by St.... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Development & Land Use Drink Environmental Law Hamilton and Region Ontario |
| | | Hamilton is expected to begin testing private wells for contaminants in the Glanbrook area “as soon as possible,” says the city’s medical officer of health.Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said city health officials are scheduled to meet with provincial Environment Ministry staff this week to discuss plans to begin a comprehensive water sampling testing for... (more) | | Drink Fish Groundwater Hamilton and Region Industrial Emissions |
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