|
Ontario
(3209 articles)
Ontario is the only Canadian province on the north shore of Lake Ontario. There are about 12.5 million people living in Ontario, roughly half of whom live in the Lake Ontario watershed. Three of Canada’s largest cities, including the largest, are on the north shore. Westward from the Bay of Quinte, most of the shoreline is urbanized. Eastward of the Bay of Quinte, the land is a mix of urban, industrial, and rural. The north shore is home to many large manufactoring and energy facilities, including steel plants, cement kilns, and two nuclear power plants.
|
|
|
Trillium Power Wind Corporation has registered John Kourtoff to lobby the Ontario Government regarding:
Name or Description of Policy, Program or Decision: Green Energy and Green Economy Act
Government Ministries or Agencies you are lobbying:Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Energy Ministry of Natural Resources Ministry of the Environment
Full... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Energy & Fossil Fuels
Environmental Law
Fish
Ontario
|
|
|
|
|
Comment Period: 47 days: submissions may be made between August 18, 2010 and October 04, 2010.
The Green Energy Act placed a priority on expanding Ontario’s use of clean and renewable sources of energy. Developing these renewable resources is a cornerstone of Ontario’s future prosperity and the government’s plan to combat climate change and phase out coal. In support... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Energy & Fossil Fuels
Environmental Law
Fish
Ontario
|
|
|
|
|
For years, supporters of Ontario's environment and natural resources have bemoaned funding cuts and other actions that have left the Ministry of Natural Resources -- the official defender of our natural assets -- toothless and virtually useless.
Now we in the Quinte area have stark -- and frankly ugly -- evidence of exactly how much impact those changes have had.
One only... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Environmental Law
Fish
Ontario
|
|
|
|
The Ontario government introduced the Clean Water Act in 2006. The Act divides the province into forty Source Protection Areas, mainly based on conservation authority boundaries, and creates an administrative apparatus meant to identify and address threats to drinking water supplies ("source water").
As a charity that seeks to protect clean, natural drinking water supplies... (more)
|
| (1 comments)
Drink
Environmental Law
Features
Ontario
Waterkeeper.ca Weekly
|
|
|
|
|
The Ministry of the Environment posted a proposal on the Environmental Registry on January 25, 2010 for a 60-day comment period to make amendments to O. Reg. 287/07 under the Clean Water Act, 2006 (Act), in order to set out content and consultation requirements for the development of drinking water source protection plans, and to include the necessary provisions to implement... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Drink
Environmental Law
Groundwater
Industrial Emissions
Ontario
|
|
|
|
|
On March 23, 2007, a Notice of Proposal was posted on the Environmental Registry for a 60-day comment period (ending May 22, 2007), to amend Ontario Regulation 153/04: Records of Site Condition, to update the soil and ground water standards for Brownfields. Read the original posting to the Environmental Registry here.
Consultation included a draft document “Soil, Ground... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Development & Land Use
Energy & Fossil Fuels
Ontario
Other
|
|
|
|
Is it safe to swim in Lake Ontario? From June to September every year, we are asked this question more than any other. It seems to be the number one "environmental" issue on people's minds when the thermometre soars.
We could answer the question with a "yes" and move on, but where is the fun in that? This summer, we want you to know everything there is to know about your... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Environmental Law
Features
Fish
New York State
Ontario
Sewers & Urban Runoff
Swim
Waterkeeper.ca Weekly
|
|
|
|
|
In 1991, pregnant with her first child, Ellen Smith and her husband bought a house on Rodney Street in Port Colborne, Ont., a stone’s throw from the smokestacks of the Inco plant, where nickel was refined for the better part of the 20th century. The aptly named Nickel Street runs through her working-class neighbourhood.
It wasn’t until a decade after she moved in that... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Environmental Law
Industrial Emissions
Ontario
Other
|
|
|
|
|
Decorated Canadian swimmer Elaine Tanner is pushing government officials to reinstate lifeguards at Ontario beaches as a last-ditch effort to curb a recent spike of drownings.
The three-time Olympic medallist and Canadian Sports Hall of Famer visited Sandbanks Provincial Park Tuesday as part of her ongoing visits to popular Ontario beaches, aimed at highlighting how public... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Environmental Law
Ontario
Swim
|
|
|
|
|
For a government so concerned with our well-being -- for example legislation limiting smoking in cars and even outdoors as well as cellphone use in cars and a whole ministry devoted to health promotion -- why is the Ontario government so slow to act to protect us at our public beaches?
As noted in The Intelligencer Wednesday, public beaches across the province have lost... (more)
|
| (0 comments)
Ontario
Swim
|
|
