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|  | Lindsey Cole wrote about the slow progression of Oshawa's waterfront cleanup and redevelopment in the Oshawa Express on November 2, 2011:
The deal that was reached between the three parties included the federal government investing $10 million to transfer port activities from the west wharf to the east wharf and the City acquiring 48 acres of land to potentially re-establish... (more) | | (0 comments) Development & Land Use Durham Region Environmental Law Other |
| | | Mr. François Lapointe (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, NDP):Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the government quietly revealed that it will spend more than $800 million on AECL this year alone.Many people may say that massive overspending on the nuclear crown corporation is par for the course for the government, but what is different this time is that it has... (more) | | (0 comments) Canada Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Nuclear Industry Other |
| | | A major conservation group is calling on TransAlta Corp. (TA-T20.840.211.02%) to periodically turn off turbines at its Wolfe Island wind farm in Ontario to cut down on the number of birds and bats killed by the machines.Nature Canada says the project’s 86 turbines are among the most destructive of wildlife in North America. The organization argues TransAlta should shut... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels Ontario Other |
| | | Industrial wind turbines pose a significant risk to Ontario waterfowl, a speaker told an audience Thursday night.Scott Petrie was in the city to talk about how the turbines affect the natural world.But, he added, it isn't an issue that will catch the public's ear — and he knows this."Most people don't care about wildlife," he told a small crowd of 15 people in the... (more) | | (4 comments) Canada Energy & Fossil Fuels Other |
| | | Waterfront Toronto launched Tuesday the final phase of an $18.6 million construction project to extend an existing pedestrian path west of the mouth of the Humber River along the shore of Lake Ontario.Mimico Waterfront Park, under construction by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, is intended to provide a 1.1-kilometer-long strip of park space between Norris... (more) | | (0 comments) Development & Land Use Greater Toronto Region Other |
|  | When the wind blows from the east, the water glints bright and Mike Sandusky catches a billowing wave, is there any place finer to surf than the Scarborough Bluffs?Sandusky, who has surfed 200 beaches around the world, thinks not.It has something to do with the vista of the cliffs as he rides a Lake Ontario wave toward the shore. It’s breathtaking, he says, different... (more) | | (0 comments) Greater Toronto Region Other Swim |
| | | In past summers, Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer has walked across Toronto and Mississauga and hiked down Yonge Street. Starting today and over the next several Saturdays, his Float Around Toronto charts a course on the city's waterways.Within the first half hour of my sculling début on the Barry Shaw, a sleek double racing shell of the storied Argonauts Rowing Club,... (more) | | (0 comments) Greater Toronto Region Other |
| | | Having met its goal of saving land to the east from bulldozers, the Friends of the Eramosa Karst is setting a new target: to help pay for any trails to integrate the open meadow with the existing park.Brad Gautreau, the group’s chair, last week presented a cheque for $3,000 to the Hamilton Conservation Authority’s fundraising foundation, the first installment of a... (more) | | (0 comments) Environmental Law Hamilton and Region Other |
| | | “Canada,” Margaret Atwood once said, “was built on dead beavers.”But right now, beavers are alive, well and busy building on some of the richest real estate in town — Toronto’s condo corridor down on Queen’s Quay.Two weeks ago, TSN's Sportscentre writer Thomas Ludwick and his girlfriend were taking a late-night stroll by his place at the foot of York,... (more) | | (0 comments) Greater Toronto Region Other |
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