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Kingston and Region
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The City of Kingston, Wolfe Island, and Bath are just a few of the communities that make up the easternmost part of Lake Ontario. This area supports many of the lake’s remaining natural areas and a small commercial fishery. Chronic sewage problems are some of the most persistent environmental issues in the region.
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RENOVATIONS: City moving ahead with revitalization of Richardson Beach, its bath house and Macdonald Park
Nearly two years after a mass swim for action, the city is moving ahead with a $400,000 plan to revitalize Richardson Beach, the bath house and Macdonald Park.
City councillors have approved spending $280,000 on improving the park and beach area and $100,000 on... (more)
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The ace is now in his back pocket, but developer Simon Fuller said yesterday he is still open to suggestions about a controversial marina redesign plan.
"We're trying to achieve a compromise here," Fuller, the developer of Tall Ships Landing and the Maritime Discovery Centre of the Thousand Islands (MDC), told QMI Agency ahead of another meeting between the city and... (more)
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A new Certificate of Approval (Air) was issued to permit Lafarge Canada Inc.'s Energy Farm Demonstration Project at their portland cement manufacturing plant located in Bath, Ontario. The project is to test a variety of biomass fuel crops in a cement kiln for a period of 60 days.
Read the original posting here.
Public Consultation on the proposal for this decision was... (more)
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For a city that prides itself on its waterfront, there are surprisingly few picture postcards of what is now some of the most prized real estate in Kingston.
The author of a new book on vintage postcards says there's a historically obvious reason why that is: For most of the city's history, what is today the city's centrepiece was a filthy, industrial mess that was better... (more)
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The 5th Annual Wolfe Island hockey tournament, renamed in honour of (Uncle) Chris Mattson, took place last weekend. Four teams competed for the "Lake Ontario Cup" on the Island's new hockey rink.
Team Lake Ontario Waterkeeper won the tournament, claiming victory over past winners, Toronto Gas Station Islanders, by a score of 6-3 in the finals. The tournament MVP was... (more)
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A retired Queen's University physics professor says wind farms don't live up to the hype generated by energy companies and governments.
John Harrison says that for the final six months of 2009, the Wolfe Island wind farm operated at about one-quarter efficiency.
It's misleading, Harrison said, for Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen and TransAlta, the company that... (more)
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How do you know if a wind turbine is killing birds and bats? Answer: Somebody has to count the bodies. We do just that, today, on our to visit Wolfe Island. Mark and Krystyn chat with Stacey Haskins and Bill Evans.
Music in this Show
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive
Spin Spin Sugar by Sneaker Pimps
Spin the Black Circle by Pearl Jam
Listen to the... (more)
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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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From his Kingston home, Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen holds a commanding view of the wind turbines rise in the distance from Wolfe Island.
It's New Year's Eve and Gerretsen is clearly energized by the recent climate change conference he attended in Copenhagen.
He believes Ontario is on the right track with plans to shut down its coal-fuelled electricity... (more)
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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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