Peterborough & Region (143 articles)
|  | Two full boating seasons have now passed since a blue-ribbon advisory panel told the federal government what was needed to reverse the Trent-Severn Waterway's decline.After holding 32 public meetings and hearing from more than 1,000 people in communities along the historic waterway, the panel made two overarching recommendations: commit an extra $270 million over 10 years... (more) | | Drink Fish Peterborough & Region Quinte Region |
|  | A company that owns an asphalt manufacturing plant on Television Rd. wants to warn future residents of a planned subdivision near Willowcreek Plaza in the city's east end about living near its facility.At Monday night's city council meeting, a representative of Coco Paving presented warning clauses that the company wants attached to the draft subdivision plan for 41... (more) | | Environmental Law Other Peterborough & Region |
| | | 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) | | Drink Environmental Law Groundwater Peterborough & Region Water takings |
|  | 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) | | Development & Land Use Drink Environmental Law Peterborough & Region Water takings |
|  | 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) | | Environmental Law Peterborough & Region Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region Swim |
| | | 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) | | Development & Land Use Environmental Law Fish Industrial Emissions Peterborough & Region |
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