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Seaway officials will dig into a buried canal remnant in Thorold, after local explorers stumbled across a smelly yellow substance now identified as sulphur.
Rene Ressler, a heritage buff who runs the Welland Canals Advocate website, found a wide expanse of "sulphur smelling" material atop what he believes to be the filled-in southern approach to Lock 25 of the third Welland... (more)
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Niagara Region
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Shipping, boating & navigation
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Belleville residents driving or walking past the Moira River along Cannifton or Moira Street East just north of College Street Friday may have been surprised to see very low water levels.
Staff from Quinte Conservation has lowered the water level in the Moira River above the McLeod dam to perform repairs to the floodwall.
Quinte Conservation Water Resources Manager Byron... (more)
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Quinte Region
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Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and the Swim Drink Fish Music Club are excited to announce that Great Lake Swimmers are now featured at www.swimdrinkfishmusic.com. The group, led by Tony Dekker, has contributed three live tracks as well as a new studio recording created specially for Swim Drink Fish Music.
"It is an honour to release four different songs from Tony and Great Lake... (more)
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Waterkeeper.ca Weekly
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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)
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Ontario
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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)
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Environmental Law
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Ontario
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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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Nuclear Industry
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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
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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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Staff at the Port Hope Area Initiative Management Office (PHAI MO) are settling in at their new headquarters at 115 Toronto Rd.
They made the move last weekend to the new digs at the corner of Jane Street, just south of the Marsh Road intersection and adjacent to the Pineview Plaza.
"It became clear to us last year the PHAI MO had outgrown the facilities it had leased at... (more)
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Environmental Law
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Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region
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