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|  | An interesting piece by Thomas Walkom in the Toronto Star on November 9, 2011 examines the changing powers behind Ontario electricity generation:
Ontario is quietly privatizing its electricity system. Unlike former Tory premier Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty is not advertising this fact. But slowly and inexorably, his Liberal government is squeezing out public power.The... (more) | | Energy & Fossil Fuels Ontario Other |
| | | Steve Orr in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle writes about the growing number of connections between fracking and earthquakes, November 16, 2011:
The surge in hydrofracking has meant a surge in injection wells to dispose of drilling wastewater — and those disposal wells are increasingly being linked to small earthquakes. Clusters of "induced" quakes in the Dallas-Fort... (more) | | Energy & Fossil Fuels New York State Other |
| | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | Greater Toronto Region Other |
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