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Peterborough & Region
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Stirling Creamery has been fined $28,000 for an accidental fuel spill into Rawdon Creek.
Ontario's environment ministry reported the Jan. 18 spill of 800 to 1,000 litres of diesel fuel happened when the fuel was pumped accidentally out of a tank.
The resulting cleanup took two weeks, but officials said most of the fuel ended up on the ice covering the creek. The municipal... (more)
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Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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Cavan Monaghan Township council is taking an extra step to ensure Millbrook water won't be diverted to Fraserville.
Councillors voted unanimously on Monday to write a letter asking the Ministry of the Environment to stop the environmental assessment (EA) on the controversial plan.
Although an approved EA would not automatically mean the plan would go ahead, it might open... (more)
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Drink
Environmental Law
Groundwater
Peterborough & Region
Water takings
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It was about a year ago that a group of concerned Millbrookarea residents packed Cavan Monaghan Tow nship council chambers to have their say on a plan to pipe Millbrook water to a proposed new community in Fraserville.
On Tuesday, that plan was dealt its death blow in a 3-2 vote by township council.
"This is the end of a long journey," said Jane Zednik, who has been part... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Drink
Environmental Law
Peterborough & Region
Water takings
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Hamilton Township council has asked the local health unit to test the Gore's Landing wharf swimming area if beaches at Bewdley and Harwood are posted as being unsafe for swimming.
With a recent road tar spill in Harwood at Rice Lake and a sewage spill in Peterborough entering the lake via the Otonabee River earlier this year, Deputy Mayor Isobel Hie pressed for this at... (more)
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Environmental Law
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Swim
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While experts assume coal tar contamination is seeping into the Otonabee River from city-owned properties, the city is tightly controlling the release of information on the issue.
A consultant's report on the coal tar contamination at the city-owned provincial courthouse property and Millennium Park won't be released to the public without going through the Freedom of... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Peterborough & Region
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The Ministry of the Environment says it will consider a number of factors before deciding whether to lay charges against Northumberland County for the June 28 road tar, or emulsion, spill that occurred on residential properties and into a creek that empties into Rice Lake.
"We're looking to assess the environmental impact," said Jim Martherus, a senior environmental officer... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Environmental Law
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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A growing list of people working daily at the Simcoe St. courthouse are not going to sit idle while the city determines if the ground they work on is toxic.
City council will soon receive a petition,The Examinerhas learned, urging it to examine the potential health risks associated with a major coal tar contamination now, not within one year as planned.
"Does the city... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Environmental Law
Fish
Industrial Emissions
Peterborough & Region
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The City of Kawartha Lakes has awarded Cambium Environmental the contract to continue works at the Omemee Water Pollution Control Plant.
The job is three-fold:
* To perform the specific technical assessments to solve the short-term wastewater capacity compliance issue.
* A feasibility assessment for long-term water supply from local resources.
* An environmental... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Drink
Fish
Peterborough & Region
Sewers & Urban Runoff
Swim
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Two streams, a number of private properties on Rice Lake and the Harwood Fish Culture Station were affected by an oil-like substance following roadwork and a rainstorm last week in Harwood, according to various official reports.
Remedial work by Northumberland County was still being done July 7, a week later, the neighbour who reported the spill to the environment ministry... (more)
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Fish
Peterborough & Region
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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