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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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Port Hope and the surrounding communities are part of Northumberland county. Each town has a population under 20,000 people and boast some of the north shore’s most historic downtowns. Port Hope is home to a number of nuclear-related industries, which have historically contributed to unique water quality problems in the area. Port Granby radioactive waste site, just outside of Port Hope, is actually located in Durham Region. Information about this leaking waste site may be found in both categories on this web site. Port Hope Harbour is one of Lake Ontario's "Areas of Concern."
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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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Anglers, both locally and from across Canada, love to fish in Port Hope, said the municipality's tourism co-ordinator Andrea Patterson.
So it should be no surprise Port Hope is in the running to be named Canada's Ultimate Fishing Town, a contest by World Fishing Network (WFN) TV.
Patterson said the municipality still needs help as the first of two public votes is underway... (more)
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Fish
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is one way to make a difference in one's own little corner of the world -- that part of it, at least, which happens to be shoreline.
Three Northumberland sites have already been registered for the 17th annual event, to be held between Sept. 18 and 26, according to communications co-ordinator Jean Fong. The deadline for others to register... (more)
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Canada
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Swim
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The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit has given the Youth Action Council $1,400 to improve the village's beach on the north side of the Trent River.
"This is just awesome news," said Tonya Smith, who has served as the council's supervisor since it was formed last March.
"We plan on doing some excavating and putting on new sand to make the beach... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Quinte Region
Swim
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PORT HOPE -Oshawa received $19.4 million when it took over its harbour from the federal government and Port Hope resident John Floyd says it's like they just won the Harbour Divestiture 6/49...especially when compared to the $300,000 Port Hope received.
But Port Hope chief administrative officer Eugene Todd said Oshawa had different circumstances.
As he indicated on July... (more)
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Durham Region
Fish
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Shipping, boating & navigation
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Hastings – The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit has given the Youth Action Council $1,400 to improve the village's beach on the north side of the Trent River.
"This is just awesome news," said Tonya Smith, who has served as the council's supervisor since it was formed last March.
"We plan on doing some excavating and putting on new sand to make... (more)
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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Quinte Region
Swim
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PORT HOPE -- The material dredged out of Port Hope's harbour each year is undeniably clean and reports prove it, says municipal Chief Administrative Officer Eugene Todd.
Frustrated with being held to a different standard of sediment and soil testing, Mr. Todd plans to take the province to task on the issue that wastes times, costs money -- particularly this year's harbour... (more)
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Environmental Law
Fish
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Shipping, boating & navigation
Swim
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Thirty-five properties in Port Hope will soon be the subjects of a trial resurvey, Glen Case, manager of project engineering with the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) Management Office, told Port Hope council recently.
The trial will be conducted in order to test out the procedures and systems before the full-scale cleanup takes place, he said.
They will also be testing... (more)
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Development & Land Use
Nuclear Industry
Other
Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
Waste Management
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Cameco's uranium dioxide (UO2) plant was voluntarily shut down on June 30 to investigate an exceeded an action level for uranium emissions, a press release issued July 15 by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) states.
On June 29, in accordance with reporting requirements, Cameco notified the CNSC that it had potentially exceeded an action level from its UO2 plant... (more)
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Environmental Law
Industrial Emissions
Nuclear Industry
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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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