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|  | The last three weeks have been very, very good to the Jefferson Salamander.According to Conservation Halton’s director of communications, Hassaan Basit, not one salamander was killed while trying to cross the section of King Road blocked off by the City of Burlington.That section stretched from just south of the escarpment to Mountain Brow Road. The road closure ran... (more) | | Canada Environmental Law Fish Hamilton and Region Ontario |
| | | Ian Davidson understands the Greater Sage-Grouse is but a minor concern these days for Canadians.Whittled down to a tiny population in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as the expanding oil industry invades their natural habitat, the turkey-like birds are on the brink.But after Thursday’s federal budget announcement, it looks like the birds, which reportedly number fewer than... (more) | | Canada Environmental Law Fish |
| | | For the past three months, my dedicated lawyer David Donnelly, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land ("PERL"), and I have been trying to obtain a Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) biologist's written opinion on whether a quarry company's mitigation plan would protect the breeding ponds and wetlands of the Federally Endangered Jefferson Salamanders that are on our family... (more) | | Aggregate & Mining Canada Environmental Law Fish Industrial Emissions Niagara Region |
| | | Great Lakes Echo interviewed our Vice President, Krystyn Tully about non-native fish stocking in the Great Lakes
“We would love to see restored natural ecosystems,” said Krystyn Tully, vice president of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, an environmental nonprofit group that advocates for the protection of the lake.“But we understand the only way to achieve healthy ecosystems... (more) | | Canada Farming Fish Great Lakes-Basin U.S.A. |
|  | Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s 2012 budget seems to be moving Canada toward a dangerously high-carbon future, say environmental groups."There doesn't appear to be anything in this budget that will move Canada toward the low-carbon clean energy future,” Tides Canada’s Energy Initiative director Merran Smith said in an email to the Observer.“In fact, it does... (more) | | Canada Drink Environmental Law Fish Great Lakes-Basin Swim |
| | | Hints of rollbacks to environmental legislation in today's budget speech:
Streamlining the review process for major economic projectsAs the 21st century unfolds, it is increasingly clear that Canada’s energy and natural resources are massive assets to our country in the global economy. The oil and gas, mining, and forestry sectors directly employ more than three-quarters... (more) | | Canada Drink Environmental Law Fish Swim |
| | | Proposed changes to the federal fisheries act could remove one of the pillars of environmental law in Canada, environmentalists say.The changes, which were outlined in a leaked internal government document, would remove protection for fish habitat and replace it with a ban on actions causing an “adverse effect” on “fish of economic, cultural or ecological... (more) | | About Waterkeeper Canada Environmental Law Fish |
| | | If you are concerned about changes to the Fisheries Act that may be included in the March 2012 budget and want to know what you can do, here are some popular ideas:1 - Reach out to government. Ultimately, this decision will be made by the Prime Minister and his cabinet. Both Ottawa Riverkeeper and Sierra Club of Canada launched letter-writing campaigns that make it easy to... (more) | | Canada Environmental Law Fish |
| | | Until recently I knew next to nothing about Canada's Fisheries Act. I rather astutely assumed it had something to do with protecting fish, but that is where it ended.Not long ago I learned about section 36-3 of the Act, which prevents the dumping of "deleterious substances" into bodies of water in Canada deemed fish habitat. Environmental groups were recently challenging... (more) | | Canada Environmental Law Fish Ontario |
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