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Admaston-Bromley Mayor Raye-Anne Briscoe remains perplexed that the Ottawa River still doesn’t have national river heritage status. She and other elected county officials have maintained for the best part of a decade that the river, which runs the entire east boundary of Renfrew County, should bear that status. The designation was expected to be bestowed in 2008 after the recommendation ...
On April 6 at 12:00 pm, Ottawa Riverkeeper and the Ottawa chapter of Muskies Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join forces to protect the Ottawa River. Muskies Canada (Ottawa Chapter) is the first fishing/hunting group to join Ottawa Riverkeeper’s successful and extensive River Watch Program.
EMC news – The staff and volunteers of the Ottawa Riverkeeper are determined to see the city’s sewage problem fixed once and for all. The grassroots charity, dedicated to monitoring and maintaining the ecological health of the Ottawa River watershed, reflected on past successes while looking forward to the future during a Nov. 22 event held at its Westboro offices. Since 2001, ...
The City of Ottawa appears to be cleaning up its act when it comes to sewer spills. The annual reporting period for combined sewer overflows ended Thursday and according to the online list of spills, the city will have the lowest annual volume in 2012 over seven years. The reporting period is April 15 to Nov. 15. Between those dates this year, the city recorded 146.1 million litres of ...
The federal government will provide more than $15 million for the replacement of the Ontario section of the Temiskaming Dam Complex. Announced Thursday by Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin, the funding is in addition to previously awarded $1.9-million engineering design contract to Hatch Limited of Niagara Falls. “Maintaining local public infrastructure is important to all of us,” said ...
“We’re losing our tools to protect fresh water and our federal government is really getting rid of their responsibility to protect our waterways,” argues Meredith Brown, the Ottawa Riverkeeper, a watchdog group that monitors water quality in the Ottawa River and its tributaries.
PORTAGE-DU-FORT – Residents concerned about the implications of a septic waste treatment plant upstream from their small west Quebec village may have gone home Wednesday night with more questions than answers. About 15 residents attended last night’s Portage-du-Fort regular council meeting to voice their concerns about the plant now operating in the Pontiac Industrial Regional Park in ...
If Renfrew County residents think water levels are returning to normal, think again. So said Admaston-Bromley Mayor Raye-Anne Briscoe while waving a caution flag during the Sept. 26 session of county council. The session was held in Arnprior’s Nick Smith Centre, to acknowledge the town’s 150th-anniversary celebrations this year. But Briscoe said there’s little reason to celebrate more ...
OTTAWA — The Petawawa is a lovely river, a gem in Ontario’s paddling pantheon, one of only two major tributaries of the Ottawa to run freely, nature’s way, without the interference of dams. When Xeneca Power Development Inc. proposed two small dams on the river, just upstream from town, the reaction was predictable. Paddlers are upset. Locals are suspicious. Environmentalists are ...
PETAWAWA – Citizens and soldiers fanned out across the beaches lining the Ottawa River here Wednesday as the town and the base joined the Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up. Armed with garbage bags, rubber gloves and rakes, volunteer turned up early to do their part to clean-up the beach fronts enjoyed by hundreds of vacationers each summer. Unfortunately, some of those visitors neglect ...
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