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• Year: 2010
  • March
    • Facing Canada’s water woes
    • Damage from Terry Fox Drive extension runs deeper than trees
    • Road salt is poisoning water bodies, study finds
    • Ice safety impossible to predict, expert warns
    • Sierra Club plans national campaign to stop Terry Fox Drive extension
    • Province weighs novel, but expensive, water and sewage authority
    • Thaw and rain send sewage overflow into river
    • Update: Ottawa River Action Plan
    • Feds' stimulus environmental rule changes challenged
  • February
    • Gatineau councillor backs fluoridation
    • Take politics out of environment debate: Report
    • Ottawa school to host ‘bottled water free day’
    • Follow U.S. lead on Great Lakes
    • Flood Control Operations Receive International Attention
    • Paying more for water won’t reduce use: group
    • Time to clean up acts
    • Re-routing river could cause flooding, watchdog warns
    • Ottawa must help fund new sewage treatment rules: HRM mayor
    • Stricter sewage regulations announced by feds
    • Water crackdown needs cash flow, Prentice told
    • Stormwater storage plan one step closer
    • City looks at 10% hike to water bill to fix aging infrastructure
    • Polaris Institute Wants Tap Water More Accessible
    • Baird puts road ahead of rare turtles
    • City faces provincial charges over sewer gaffes
    • City announces plan to clean up Ottawa River
    • City Looks to Build Storage Tank to Stop Sewage Overflows
    • City tables $250M sewage plan
    • O'Brien promises $140M over five years to fix sewage overflows into river
  • January
    • An artist’s splash of autumn colour amidst winter’s grey
    • 120 Million Litres of Sewage Flows into River
    • Floodplain policies ignored: engineer
    • Setback for Ontario in war on Asian carp
    • Winterlude water usage shocks Sierra Club
    • Town of Arnprior to continue surface water testing program in 2010, beyond
    • Deep cuts to green initiatives concern group
    • Common herbicide might affect frogs
    • City Defends New Water Meter Program
    • Kanata drainage couldn’t handle storm: city
    • City to install smart water meters
    • Glen Cairn flooded because sewers too small, city study finds
    • 'Water justice' advocate: Don’t privatize
    • City Wants Second Seat on Rideau Canal Steering Committee
    • National Capital Commission gets $35M in stimulus
    • Sludge happens. Deal with it
    • Tories have ignored environmental assessment panel, member says
• Year: 2009
  • December
    • Flood plain mapping in Richmond is deferred
    • Chalk River nuclear reactor shutdown has cost nearly $40 million
    • Ottawa Reviews Environmental Strategy
    • Chlorinated Water Spill
    • Snow Causes Sewage Overflows
    • Stand-alone sewage plant in Richmond - Yes or no?
    • Funds for clean water program continue to flow
    • Residents help make final decision on fixing river overflow
    • Lake lovers keep close watch on Asian carp
    • City studies Pinecrest Creek retrofit
    • Firm fined $5,000 for water violation
    • Climate change is all about water
    • Environmental Report Card Day for Council
    • International dam leading to river reboot
    • Aquablue hunts financing for Smiths Falls plant
    • Latest sewage spill shifts agenda
    • Hope grows that mass fish kill has halted spread of Asian carp into Canada
    • Water Protection
    • Common weed killer gives male frogs sex change
    • Keefer regulator causes sewage spill — again
    • Sandy Hill water solution dubbed project of the year by OPWA
    • Blue Summit demands government action on water
    • Council voices concern about possible flooding
    • Chalk River workers want to run nuclear facility
  • November
    • Protect water as a ‘human right’, group says
    • Ancient camp unearthed along Rideau River
    • Feedbank wanted on options to stop untreated sewage from going into the Ottawa River
    • Clean river a costly proposition
    • Sierra Club Questions Tritium Levels In River
    • Glen Cairn hit by ‘blowback’ of raw sewage
    • Sewage solution good, but PR work bad: report
    • City launches series of public meetings on health of Ottawa River
    • River sewage control options considered
    • Revisit isotope decision, government told
    • Ottawa ordered to deal with sewage problem
    • 'The population will go extinct. It’s inevitable.'
    • Involve residents in bridge plan: Gatineau councillors
    • Barlow says ‘get active’ for public sewage treatment in Victoria
    • Rock the water
    • City on right track to solve sewer overflow problems: province
    • New park building’s design pays tribute to its environment
    • Asian carp may have breached barrier
    • Cochrane sets example on water consumption
    • Radioactive waste contaminating Canadian water supply: Report
    • Responsible water use flows from full-cost pricing
    • Vast majority of stimulus projects escape environmental-impact studies
    • Ban the bottled stuff, city has great water, says group
    • Committee backs $1,000 grant for flood damage
    • Vancouver gets new water rules
    • Spreading controversy
    • Opponents fail to stop spread of biosolids
    • Olympics spur B.C. water recycling strategy
    • Plan pits villages against developers
    • New Sewage Overflows
    • Environment Ministers Tackle Waste, Adopt Canada-Wide Vision for Water
  • October
    • Sewage Explosion in Glen Cairn Homes
    • Ottawa River sewage toll tops 1.3B litres
    • Wastewater treatment facility expansion to cost up to $7M
    • Motion to aid flood victims deferred
    • Committee OKs funding plan for sewer upgrades
    • Kanata West delays cost millions: developers
    • 1,500 signatures and growing: CIP lagoon petition gains public support
    • Toronto water has drug-resistant bacteria
    • A picturesque setting hides disregard for the earth, air and water that sustain us
    • Flood grant would cost $1.4M, report says
    • Mayor springs back with anti-water bottle movement
    • New fears for species extinctions
    • Major rivers go against flow
    • Canadian rivers in trouble, study warns
    • Responsibility for water stewardship is awfully murky
    • The trouble facing Canadian rivers
    • Some Canadian rivers at risk of drying up
    • Councillor Wants AG to Probe Development Review Process
    • Cleaning pond may prevent Glen Cairn floods
    • Storms flush 132M L of sewage, effluent into river
    • Environment czar slams wetland work
    • Water follies
    • Massive water plan involves Ottawa River
    • Massive scheme proposed to bring more water, electricity to Montreal
  • September
    • Sewage spills top 1B litres
    • Sewage Overflows Hit One Billion Litres
    • Press Release: Sustainable development is key to sewage woes, says Riverkeeper
    • Rain sends 63M litres of sewage into river
    • $400 Million to Eliminate Sewage Overflows: Commissioner
    • High cost to clean up river
    • Sewage plan gains support of enviroment honcho
    • Glen Cairn flooding blamed on pond design
    • City’s sewer showcase hijacked by angry residents
    • Stink mars unveiling of sewage spill fix
    • Miller inspecting sewage fixes
    • Sewage Smell Raises a Stink
    • Environment minister tells cities to ‘wait and see’ about sewage policy
    • Tory waste-water policy will punish taxpayers: cities
    • Monday rainstorm sends mixed sewage into river
    • Home Filtering Systems Provide Best Drinking Water Protection
    • More than 100 attend CIP meeting in Hawkesbury
    • Ecologist argues housing to cause noise pollution, disturb river and birds
    • Feds' bottled-water use a waste of money: NDP
    • Councillors tout tanks to stop Glen Cairn flooding
    • City must fix sewage stink in Richmond: MoE
    • Watchdog reviews city’s sewage solutions
    • Environmental Commissioner Probes Sewage Overflows
    • Petitcodiac River sewage enforcement considered
    • Committee approves Kanata West development freeze
    • Sewage breaks federal act: Riverkeeper
    • No quick flood fix: Mayor
    • Temporary moratorium on building near river a step closer
    • Ottawa River Heritage Designation Committee Still Waiting On Answers
    • Committee Set to Debate Building Moratorium
    • City failed to respond to flooding: Report
    • 1B litres of poop ... city’s overflows near milestone
    • More Sewage Overflows
    • City not liable for flood damage: report
    • Finding what lies beneath
    • Ottawa sewage sullies downstream towns
    • Dave Bidini Does 30 Song Tribute To Lake Ontario
    • Province tackles Hawkesbury cleanup
    • Ottawa’s water consumption takes costly plunge
  • August
    • On collision course - Sewage treatment in Richmond
    • Festival celebrates past, focuses on future of Ottawa River
    • Councillors reject Kanata development ban
    • City’s sewage plan deserves criticism
    • Water-export plan no Grand Canal
    • City of Ottawa all talk, no walk on environment: Doucet
    • O'Brien says Feds, Province, Obligated To Help Fix Sewers
    • Canadians want action on environment, despite recession: poll
    • City didn’t act on possible flood fixes
    • KAYAK ANGLER Regional Editor Wins Ottawa Riverkeeper Classic
    • 'Mature' Discussion Needed on Sewage: Chiarelli
    • South-end neighbours in water fight
    • More sewage flows into river
    • Municipalities Downstream Want Sewage Spills to Stop
    • Old thinking on sewage
    • McGuinty’s home flooded during recent rains
    • Watson glad to see plan in place for Ottawa River clean up
    • Premier Adds Voice to Calls for Sewage Overflows to Stop
    • Baird won’t take ‘pot shots’ at city regarding sewage repair
    • Councillor blasted for sewage spill comments
    • Councillor calls for halt to building projects in Kanata
    • Sewage ruins a favourite summer pastime
    • Councillor calls for halt to building projects in Kanata
    • Diversion proposal doesn’t hold water
    • Gatineau to probe river sewage output
    • City signs $7.5M sewage regulator contract
    • Arnprior Backs Out Of Hosting Ottawa River Summit
    • Disaster area request made
    • AECL says Chalk River won’t return to service until early next year
    • Gatineau to track sewage dumped in Ottawa River
    • Flood fix two years away: mayor
    • Counties will raise stink over sewage spills from Ottawa
    • Canada’s nuclear know-how in accelerated decay
    • Public Discussion Driving Sewage Solution: Riverkeepers
    • Glen Cairn councillor says she never saw 2003 flood-risk report
    • Watchdog gets to work on possible solutions to sewage woes
    • Councillor Hume seething over Watson’s sewage remarks
    • Clean up sewage mess for good: Watson
    • Options for Ottawa River Range from ‘Raw Sewage’ to ‘Perrier’: Chiarelli
    • Cantley residents push Quebec to clean up smelly, bankrupt dump
    • Environment Canada Issues New Rules To Protect Country’s Water Resources
    • Municipalities face new rules for sewage plants
    • Prentice pledges new wastewater rules
    • Fixing Kanata sewers could cost $30M: councillor
    • Bonnechere Riverwatch program launched
    • Green Flag Flies at Petrie Island Beaches
    • Troublesome Ottawa sewer gate repaired
    • Sewage spill cause found
    • System foul-up sees raw sewage dumped into Ottawa River
    • Raw sewage floods river in Ottawa
  • July
    • Raw sewage spills into Ottawa River blocks from prime minister’s residence
    • Ottawa stops sewage spill at Keefer Regulator
    • Report claims profitable vision for floodwater diversion in Quebec
    • Ottawa River water levels increasing
    • High water levels thrill area boaters
    • Nuclear reactor probe to determine repair strategy
    • Press Release: Fishing for a cause
    • Storm likely a‘once-in-100 years’ event
    • Heavy rain has Ottawa River on the rise
    • Heavy rains push Carp River above banks
    • Le ciel s'est déversé sur la région
    • Dam levels rising as rain falls across Ontario
    • Owners demand answers as more than 250 homes flooded
    • Money talks: Fines trump safety for anglers at dams
    • Winnipeggers battle city proposal to privatize water system
    • Town has bottle to ban water
    • Dry facts demolish vision of Canadian water wealth
    • Timmins drinking water protected
    • Exciting new video released: History of the Waterkeeper Movement
    • PODCAST: Music Roadtrip (featuring Ottawa Riverkeeper and Lake Ontario Waterkeeper)
    • Ministry, utility cast wide net to save eels at risk
    • Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat
    • ROPEC releases too much chlorine
    • Exploring the Ottawa
    • Man Busted with Illegal Fish
    • Riverkeepers pour cold water on Aquablue plan
    • Quebec report proposes 25 new hydro power stations
    • Press Release: Selling out? Aquablue Inc. to export local water for profit
    • Quebec report seeks to divert water, generate power
    • L’eau du nord: blue gold
    • AECL provides update on NRU activities
    • National water strategy proves elusive; It’s been two years since Harper Tories made promise
    • Harper stumbles in face of global water crisis; Canada must get its act together
    • No day at the beach
    • And the sewage runs through it
    • Canada’s new Moose Riverkeeper announced
  • June
    • Ottawa could waive thousands more environmental assessments
    • RiverRun hosts Petawawa soldiers, families on Whitewater trip
    • Paddling club’s future at risk
    • Ontario suspends nuclear power plans
    • It’s Time to Learn From Frogs
    • $1.6M later, still no tenant for mill
    • Bill Clinton Woos Waterkeepers
    • Masson-Anger residents ask Quebec to force Gatineau to provident clean drinking water
    • Downriver from Chalk River
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper holds its AGM
    • Sentinelle Outaouais félicite Ottawa
    • NCC, Ottawa and Gatineau pledge leadership for the Ottawa River
    • New campaign aims to curb geese feeding
    • Call of the Rideau Canal
    • Radiation leaking at double the ‘action level’
    • Ottawa, Gatineau et la CCN nagent dans les mêmes eaux
    • $203M sewer upgrade to clean up beaches
    • NCC on board for river renewal
    • Tories pledge $6M to fund Chalk River alternatives
    • Déversement dans la rivière
    • Original river ‘highway’ nears heritage status
    • City Works to Stop Sewage Overflows
    • Local athletes successful in Riverkeeper triathlon
    • Ottawa River nears heritage status
    • A cost-effective way to protect river
    • Paddlers celebrate Canadian Rivers Day
    • Government of Canada Supports Wastewater Infrastructure in Ottawa
    • Baird backs river cleanup
    • Paddlers celebrate Ottawa River with 20-km journey
    • Spill leaves river residents scrambling
    • Nuclear Safety Commission accused of being too lenient
    • How logging gave industry a licence to pollute
    • Pembroke Mayor asking residents to watch their water usage over the weekend after massive fuel spill in the Ottawa River
    • City Reports Another Sewage Overflow
    • Officials hope Chalk River reactor runs next year
    • We need a new research reactor
    • Filmmaker fears for the Great Lakes
    • Ottawa River Canoe Brigade gives public lesson on the river
    • Riffing on the river
    • Fed-up taxpayers tattled to feds about sewage plant
    • Diesel fuel moving slowly downstream
    • Destroyed beaver dams blamed for train derailment, fuel spill into Ottawa River
    • Railway waited over 5 hours to report diesel spill
    • Rain Washes Sewage into the Ottawa River
    • Water-conservation policies get credit for drop in demand
    • Derailment spills 4,500 gallons of fuel into Ottawa River
    • Mark Angelo Presents Wild Water, Wild Earth in Ottawa
  • May
    • Radioactive leak found at Ont. nuclear reactor
    • Ottawa to sell AECL’s nuclear branch
    • City goes with flow to No. 2 polluter
    • May urges public inquiry into AECL over Chalk River reactor shutdown
    • AECL rival offers to help Canada through Chalk River shutdown
    • Environmental centre big polluter
    • La Vie Rurale
    • Base warns boaters to watch for unexploded ordnance on Ottawa River beaches
    • L'après Chalk River
    • Three Spills into the Ottawa River
    • Don’t Dump Radioactive Water into the Ottawa River
    • Mattamy Pleads Guilty to Flood Plain Violation
    • Chalk River isotope reactor on last legs: engineers
    • Rickety reactors
    • Isotope shortage ahead after leak: Chalk River shut for second time since December
    • Investigators checking possible connection in reactor leaks
    • The band-aid fails (again): another reactor leak at Chalk River
    • Regulator: Canadian nuclear reactor leaked
    • Ottawa ‘fails to protect’ fish habitat in Fraser River
    • Isotope shortage looms as Chalk River reactor shuts down again
    • Chalk River reactor shut down for a month: AECL
    • Senators Introduce Bill To Alert Communities Of Sewage Overflows
    • Environment Commissioner dimisses claims that gravel mining reduces flood threat in Fraser River
    • Be Careful On CFB Petawawa Beaches; Officials
    • Watchdog’s report shows federal government neglecting environmental protection
    • Commissioner makes waves over lack of protection for fish
    • Efforts to protect fish habitat have been inadequate
    • South Nation Conservation takes township to court over culvert removal
    • Des grenouilles menacées
    • Upcoming consultations on Ottawa-Gatineau transit
    • Gatineau Park could get national protection
    • Heritage designation nears for Ottawa River
    • Robert Kennedy Jr. takes aim at coal in Calgary speech
    • River protection research fails to persuade P.E.I. environment minister
    • Kanata west plan still flawed: city water resources engineer
    • Raisin-South Nation backs Ottawa River protection committee
    • Recyclable plastics hit festival circuit, then landfill
    • City water consumption keeps falling
  • April
    • Ottawa’s bottled water bill tops $15-million over the past five years
    • Government spending on bottled water is money down the drain, says advocacy group
    • Bottled Watergate: Findings expose millions in public money spent on bottled water
    • River looks like it has peaked
    • Councillors Look for Support to Maintain Drinking Water
    • Ottawa River Heritage Designation awaiting a signature, says chairman
    • “The most surprising thing I’ve found” - riverbank revelations with Meredith Brown
    • Citizens work to change the fate of public project
    • Mésentente sur la dépollution d'un étang
    • Ottawa park contaminated with lead
    • Wetland project resurfaces
    • Volunteers clean up Ottawa River shoreline
    • Volunteers trash river junk
    • Heritage designation imminent for Ottawa River
    • Park partially closed after soil contamination discovered
    • Ottawa Folk Festival 2009 to be Unplugged and Unbottled
    • Ottawa River on the rise
    • Ottawa River shore cleanup planned for Sunday
    • Spring Fever Hits the Capital Region
    • Ottawa Valley school most energy-efficient in province
    • Environment commissioner laments lack of federal water strategy
    • For paddlers keen and bright
    • Ontario to mark Earth Day with cosmetic pesticide ban
    • Engineer’s report puts Kanata West flood fears to rest
    • Group seeks to quash Ottawa’s curbs on environmental assessments
    • Frontline investigates troubled state of Chesapeake, US waters
    • Can we rely on technology to guarantee future water resources?
    • Maclean’s Interview: Gord Downie
    • Tories justified in firing nuclear watchdog, federal court rules; Linda Keen considers appeal of decision
    • The backlash against bottled water
    • Citizens organize to ask for “real” clean-up of CIP lagoons
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper Joins Twitter!
    • Buy local apples - but nuclear plant?
    • Environment file slips from radar
    • Don’t call off the green watchdogs - give them teeth
    • Massive sewage spill in Ottawa River
  • March
    • Water: Connecting the Local and the Global
    • Raw sewage creates sinkhole in southwest Ottawa
    • Sewage spills prompting government action
    • Bottled water: popular beverage losing its appeal?
    • MEDIA ADVISORY: Public Meeting: The Future of Hawkesbury’s Waterfront
    • Spell out the funding rules
    • World Water Day 2009 in Ottawa
    • Spring runoff sends 2.4 million litres from sewers into river
    • The Story of EAU
    • 'Abuse' foreseen in assessment exemptions
    • Where’s the money? Arnprior mayor wonders why town has been passed over by infrastructure fund.
    • Un cours d'eau pollué par les eaux usées
    • Feds to test taps for cancer contaminants
    • Court upholds ruling to close dump Cantley residents hail ruling after lengthy fight
    • 240 000$ pour les plans d‘eau de l’Outaouais
    • Prentice confirms cuts planned to environment reviews
    • Proposed bill could cut federal environmental assessments, NGOs warn
    • Liberals rush budget through to avoid EI holdup
    • Un bien étrange petit ruisseau
    • Parliament building to be painted blue for World Water Day celebration
    • Nuclear support triples under Conservative government
    • 'Do not dally,' Flaherty warns
    • Ottawa schools could put lid on bottled water
    • Federation of Canadian Municipalities asks members to ban bottled water
    • Our water is safe: City
    • Alarmist reports cast doubt on the safety of our drinking water
    • Freon leaks into Ottawa River from federal plant
    • Group wants tighter standards for drinking water
    • Aging nuclear reactor near source water a concern
    • Ontario bans cosmetic pesticides
    • 6,000 lbs. of freon leaks into Ottawa River
  • February
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper raises alarm about reactor leaks
    • Un cri d'alarme
    • Fight for Canada’s rivers heats up as budget bill returns to House of Commons
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper warns, “AECL is dumping an enormous amount of radioactivity into the Ottawa River”
    • NDP says resources minister misled public about water leak at reactor
    • Transparent communication key to nuclear industry success: minister
    • Nuclear-safety boss ‘caught by surprise’ at interest in reactor leaks
    • No concern over small water leaks at Chalk River nuclear plant: officials
    • Fate Of Canadian Rivers To Be Decided By Parliamentarians
    • Isotope shortage expected after shutdown of Chalk River reactor
    • No bridge without agreement: Meilleur
    • MPP fears bridge over Ottawa river will never be built
    • AECL turns to Ottawa to cover $100-million overrun
    • NCC opts to study 3 bridge routes
    • Ottawa given 3 choices for new interprovincial bridge
    • Construction d‘un pont près de l’île Lower Duck
    • Kettle Island best bridge site, mayors say
    • Treated radioactive water to enter Ottawa River
    • Mayor supports Kettle Island crossing
    • Pontiac out of waterway
    • Radioactive material found at wastewater treatment plant
    • NCC not bound to Kettle plan: CEO
    • NCC wants to help care for Ottawa River
    • Ottawa’s radioactive sludge turned away at U.S. border
    • Time to move on a new Ottawa bridge, NCC head says
  • January
    • U.S. pushes Canada on isotopes
    • Accelerate isotope plan
    • Dr. Ole Hendrickson comments on nuclear leak (video)
    • Scientist calls for new method of making medical isotopes
    • Ont. mayors want answers over radioactive spill
    • Fresh reactor leaks renew concerns about safety, transparency
    • When Jimmy Carter faced radioactivity head-on
    • Radioactive water leaks from Chalk River reactor
    • Don’t commit to a bridge at Kettle Island, Ontario and Quebec governments ask the NCC
    • Écoulement d'eau radioactive
    • Small reactor leak posed no peril: AECL
    • Chalk River officials tight-lipped about heavy water leak
    • Nuke spill at Chalk River
    • Tories mull scrapping ecological assessments
    • NCC waits on council before backing bridge
    • Des élus déplorent la position de Lalonde
    • Changing nature
    • Un pont de glace relie Rockland à Thurso
    • L'Ontario semble peu enclin à verser des fonds
    • PRESS RELEASE: Ottawa Riverkeeper Says “Bridge Shouldn’t Touch Kettle Island”
    • Study Links Water Pollution With Declining Male Fertility; ‘Anti-androgens’ From Drugs, Pesticides Inhibit Testosterone
    • Bridge shouldn’t touch Kettle Island, Ottawa Riverkeeper says
    • MEDIA ADVISORY: 2nd Annual Ottawa Riverkeeper Pond Hockey Tournament
    • Le futur pont fera mal aux autobus
    • Council votes to consider second interprovincial option
    • Gatineau has its own concerns
    • Un nouveau corridor recommandé
    • U.S. should produce own isotopes: Expert
    • L'île Kettle répond aux critères techniques
    • Kettle Island best bet for bridge
    • A response to the bridge
    • Kettle Island best place for a new Ottawa River bridge, NCC says
• Year: 2008
  • December
    • New tapeworm found in Great Lakes fish
    • Eco groups feel sting of economic downturn
    • Eau Secours a dû poursuivre la Ville
    • Whitewater seeks funds to stop flooding
  • November
    • Canadian lakes suffering from aquatic version of osteoporosis
    • Court rejects Lafarge bid to shut down environmental hearing
    • People Living in Low Income Communities Likely to Face Greater Pollution Releases
    • Exposure to toxic chemicals starts at home, study finds
    • Polluting firms can be forced to pay damages: top court
    • Ontario Mining Act Under Review
    • Water taken for granted in Ontario: watchdog
    • Riverfront corporation
    • Water with your wine
    • First Nations to discuss protection of vital resource
    • Snags on city funds to be fixed, says Baird
    • Robert F. Kennedy Eyed to Head EPA
    • This is a disaster for the region
  • October
    • Use of sewage as fertilizer risks tainting Ontario’s food, critics charge
    • Don’t blame a faulty gate
    • Attitude of staff tied to river spill ‘Walkerton-like’
    • Sewage spill still staining city’s reputation
    • Riviere des Outaouais - Joyau ou depotoir
    • Déversement à Ottawa : mauvaise gestion et incompétence
    • Murky Waters: The Future of the Ottawa River
    • Don’t blame a faulty gate
    • Incompetence led to sewage spill in Ottawa River: auditor
    • Water quality experts worry about untested chemicals in Ottawa River
    • Incompetent managers to blame for 2006 sewage spill: Ottawa auditor
    • AG blames sewage spill on incompetence
    • Plug leaks in our water infrastructure
    • Sewage spill report blames ‘incompetent management’ for billion-litre sewage spill into Ottawa River
    • Sewage system chaos
    • Algonquins seek full hearing as NCC plans Ottawa bridge
    • What’s in the water
    • Cottager bids to save ancient pictographs from graffiti vandals
    • Produits toxiques dans la rivière des Outaouais
    • Chemicals in river
    • Organizations tied to Ottawa River given additional funds
    • Ottawa octroie 100 000 $ pour la protection de la rivière des Outaouais
    • How dirty is that waterway?
    • Les députés doivent livrer la marchandise, avertit O'Brien
    • Some bottled water just as contaminated as tap water: study
    • City not above the law
    • Ottawa fined $450,000 for sewage discharge
    • City fined $562,500 for sewage spill
    • Waterborne Disease Risk Upped In Great Lakes
    • It’s a gas: City taps power in its sewer sludge
    • Le Nordik spa downplays fears of Chelsea wells going dry
    • $600,000 sewage spill fine expected for City of Ottawa
    • City expected to be fined $500,000 for sewage spill
    • Une amende de 562 000 $
    • Ottawa devra payer 560 000 $
    • Sewer, watermain contractors beat election drum for infrastructure cash
    • Elizabeth Payne . Capital concerns
    • Addressing our capital concerns
    • Rushing water and scenic cycling
    • La sentence se fait attendre
    • City of Ottawa pleads guilty after a billion litres of sewage dumped in river
    • Court to rule next week on penalty for city dumping sewage
    • Ottawa faces fines for dumping sewage into river
    • Interprovincial crossing controversy heats up
    • Q&A: Putting it on the Kettle
    • Sewage spill fine still under debate
    • La sentence reportée d'une semaine
    • Kettle Island good place for bridge, Ottawa-Orléans federal candidates say
    • Hands off Kettle Island
    • Modernisation du traversier de Quyon
  • September
    • Projet de modernisation du traversier de Quyon - LE BAPE INFORME LA POPULATION LE 28 OCTOBRE A PONTIAC
    • Hawkesbury opts for $35 million sewage solution
    • A bridge too close
    • Sewage sentencing delayed
    • Watershed deal aimed at protecting Great Lakes
    • VOLUNTEERS VOW TO CLEAN-UP KETTLE ISLAND
    • Gatineau veut aider Ottawa
    • Sewage-spill sentencing delayed
    • Sewage spill hearing delayed one week
    • A bridge too close: Residents gird for Kettle Island fight
    • Le corridor est loin de faire l'unanimité
    • Demain, Sentinelle Outaouais sera présente à la Cour provinciale
    • Challenge to Federal Parties: In the 2008 Election, ‘Turn on the Tap’!
    • Dredging up the past
    • Shoreline cleanup to target 27 area waterways
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper at court to hear arguments on penalty for sewage spills
    • Sewage charges stick
    • Les députés ne veulent pas de pont chez eux
    • Police divers fight junk problem
    • Firings don’t equal accountability
    • Firings don’t equal accountability
    • Tanks a lot!
    • Estrogen levels skyrocket in river around Montreal: researchers
    • Thurso signe avec les promoteurs du traversier
    • BPA Impairs Synapses Formation in Brain, New Study Finds
    • Commentary: Getting to the bottom of ‘Sewergate’
    • Vandals damage trees near Westboro Beach
    • Kanata West chaos hits close to home
    • West Quebec wants to ban lawnmowing near lakes
    • Le fleuve regorge de composés d’œstrogène
    • Gatineau asks residents to weigh in on core changes
    • The Global Warming Blame Game: Did Not! Did Too!
    • Ottawa plaide coupable
    • Déversement d'eaux usées: les coupables punis
    • 2 city water managers fired over sewage spill
    • City pleads guilty to sewage spill charges
    • City faces fines after guilty plea in sewage case
    • How much can we lose?
    • 2 dumped in Sewergate
    • Amende de 14 500 $ pour dommages à la faune
    • Heritage river designation has benefits
    • 2 city water managers fired over sewage spill
    • Court lays $14,500 fine for harming fish habitat
    • Federal, city money flowing into sewage issue
    • Hunter’s pool plan met with anger, astonishment
    • More heads roll for sewage spill
    • Hunter’s pool plan met with anger, astonishment
    • Nouvelles sanctions
    • It’s hard work building bridges
    • Poop or a pool?
    • Take a circle tour of urban Ottawa — by kayak
    • PLANTING TREES NEXT SPRING STARTS NOW!
    • Bridge choice ruins greenspace
    • 'All about money'
    • Kettle Island chosen as site for new bridge
    • Being cute with funding doesn’t fly with feds
    • Residents' concerns will be addressed
    • O'Brien delivers list of election demands
    • De l‘argent pour préserver le cours d’eau
    • NCC recommends new bridge go across Kettle Island
    • West-side bridge ‘dead in the water’ after NCC report
    • Mayor’s sewer-fix plan would cost $70 million
    • City cleans up with cash boost
    • New bridge lands on Kettle Island
    • O'Brien announces plans to fix sewage overflows
    • Baird makes political hay as Liberals try to pick opponent
    • No bridge through Andy Haydon Park or Moodie Drive, Baird orders
    • Green roofs could stop sewage from flowing into waterways: group
    • Kettle Island picked for new bridge
    • Cash flows into river
    • River rush
    • Baird announces more federal cash to protect Ottawa River
    • Despite bugs, rain and elections, we still live in an amazing country
  • August
    • McGuinty’s $77.2-million distraction
    • Councillors slam sewage ‘breakdown’
    • City eyes rising sewage spill tab
    • CHILDREN’S WATER FESTIVALS COMING THIS FALL
    • Long history of sewage spills at notorious sewer gate, city admits
    • City of Ottawa uncovers 9 potential sewage spills since 1998
    • Wave of consultations headed up Ottawa River
    • Additional sewage spill discovered
    • PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSIONS
    • BAIRD AND CANSFIELD APPROVE NOMINATION OF OTTAWA RIVER AS A CANDIDATE CANADIAN HERITAGE RIVER
    • River cleanup could take decades, Baird warns
    • Baird souhaite qu'Ottawa modernise ses égouts
    • Ottawa beaches close
    • Fixing city sewers 20-year job: Baird
    • New infrastructure funds put Ottawa, Merrickville sewage woes in spotlight
    • Province doles out sorely needed cash for infrastructure
    • McGuinty to make pitch to party leaders
    • McGuinty urges city to fix sewers
    • Smaller Ont. communities to get $725M for water, waste management
    • Beach of a summer
    • Ontario announces $1.1-billion for new infrastructure
    • $77M infrastructure windfall for Ottawa
    • Boil water advisory lifted
    • 1,1 milliard pour les infrastructures
    • Designation not a law
    • Ottawa River heritage designation
    • Canada at risk of water shortages: federal document
    • Boil-water advisory in Gatineau
    • Group wants CNSC to reconsider its licence decision for SRBT
    • Water woes make waves with politicians
    • Summer beach bummer
    • No such thing as a bad day on the river
    • O'Brien seeks NCC’s help to clean up Ottawa River
    • Plan to Turn Lake into Mine Dump Angers Newfoundlanders
    • Les maires d‘Ottawa et Gatineau discuteront d’eaux usées
    • Dynamic duo wade into river mess
    • London, Ont., to vote on giving bottled water the boot
    • Water bottles are the new faux pas
    • Beach closures
    • Towns need ‘big bucks’ to fix dilapidated sewers
    • What we are afraid to ask about sewer-gate
    • Petrie development gets thumbs up
    • Les Jeux de l'Ontario aiment Ottawa
    • A greener shade of folk
    • City of Ottawa monitoring effect of chemicals in sewage discharge
    • Researchers need help from boaters in battle against invasive species
    • Emerald Ash Borer in Ottawa - Don’t Move Wood!
    • Potential bridge will kill sailing ground, sailors warn
    • Sewer fix won’t flow easily: Hume
    • Summer of sewage
    • Sewage confusion
    • On se la coule douce près des chutes du Québec
    • City starts 180th celebration
    • Big fine for Ottawa sewage spill would be counterproductive: city councillors
    • Sewage spill could cost city millions
    • Ottawa passible d'une amende salée
    • City charged over raw sewage spill
    • Sewage overflow fix to cost $25 million
    • Charges in river spill
    • City faces $75 million in fines over 2006 sewage spill
  • July
    • City of Ottawa charged over huge 2006 sewage spill
    • City charged over Ottawa River sewage spill
    • EAUX USÉES DANS LA RIVIÈRE DES OUTAOUAIS
    • City of Ottawa charged for August 2006 sewage discharge into the Ottawa River
    • Westboro beach closed the most this season
    • POUR AVOIR DÉVERSÉ SES EAUX USÉES DANS LA RIVIÈRE
    • The view from downstream
    • Nouvelles judiciaires - La ville d‘Ottawa est accusée d’avoir rejeté des eaux d'égout dans la rivière des Outaouais, en août 2006
    • La Ville d'Ottawa accusée de polluer la rivière des Outaouais
    • Les égouts débordent
    • Les égouts débordent
    • Gatineau dumped sewage in Ottawa River almost 1,500 times last year
    • Proactive response needed
    • More sewage overflows close beaches
    • Pollution dogs Petrie Island, Westboro beaches
    • Expédition peu orthodoxe pour les Léveillée
    • Environment minister wades into Kanata West development dispute
    • States of disrepair
    • Un vol d'essence raté engendre un déversement
    • Les élus choqués d'être mal informés
    • Un 3e déversement
    • Fort William a history treasure chest
    • McGuinty silent
    • June sewage spill not reported to council until this week
    • Mise à niveau des infrastructures
    • Encore un déversement dans la rivière des Outaouais
    • Ottawa avoue un troisième déversement d'égout
    • Million dollar Ministry of Natural Resources environmental assessment underway at CIP lagoons
    • Most sewage in Ottawa River dumped, not spilled: city
    • Councillor wants media told of spills
    • Gate jam spills sewage, closing Ottawa beaches
    • Fort William a history treasure chest
    • Déversement toxique évité
    • What’s wrong with Westboro Beach?
    • Swimmers urged to heed health warning
    • Beach party on hold at Westboro
    • River absorbs more sewage
    • City acts quickly to stem weekend sewage spill
    • Meredith Brown: A river runs through them
    • Nouveau déversement d'eaux usées
    • More sewage spilled into river
    • More sewage
    • Queen’s Park verse 1 million $ pour l'étude
    • E. coli keeps beach closed
    • High bacterial count closes Ottawa beaches
    • Bacteria beach ban
    • City floats waste ID scheme
    • City looks at floatable study
    • Histoire des médias du Pontiac : de la rivière à la virtualité actuelle
    • Secret’s out about quiet spot
    • Don’t waste time, MPP urges
    • Up a creek without a paddle
    • Firm hired to test for E. coli
    • Province says it won’t pitch in to fix Ottawa’s overflowing sewers
    • Canada’s Valuable Fresh Water Is Not For Dumping Toxic Wastes
    • Embassy limits property survey
    • SHORELINE RESOLUTION IN PROGRESS
    • Lawsuit over lack of Maple nuclear reactors in Chalk River
    • Un expert de Toronto mènera l'enquête
    • Des conseillers dénoncent le manque de vision du maire O'Brien
    • City calls in help from Toronto to wade into sewage spill
    • Investigation to follow timeline of sewage spill
    • Who screwed up, and why...
    • Les citoyens demandent à Gatineau d'intervenir
    • Les citoyens demandent à Gatineau d'intervenir
    • Site of ‘debris dumping’ lies within Chinese Embassy boundaries, officials say
    • Portable toilets must go, residents say
    • Conservation authority vows to have debris behind embassy removed
    • River worries
    • Les citoyens demandent à Gatineau d'intervenir
    • Outaouais beaches get E. coli check once a month
    • Weedy lakes divide Greely neighbours
    • Moins d'inspections à Gatineau
    • Moins d'inspections à Gatineau
    • Contamination à l’E-Coli à Masson-Angers
    • Beach lovers dive in
    • Workers build small wall in river behind Chinese Embassy
    • Let’s get creative about our waterfront
    • Conservation Partners Plant 98,000 Trees in Rural Ottawa
    • Province eyes sensitive east-end ecosystems Natural Resources adds newly protected weltands to its list
    • Into the river
    • La pluie pointée du doigt
    • Ottawa tapped into safe water supply
    • Firefighters rethink Canada Day game
    • A bummer on the beach
    • East-end revelers flock to Petrie Island
    • Storm runoff, high water levels close some area beaches
    • Firefighters spray Ottawa River water on children during health warning
    • Ottawa’s water best in province
  • June
    • Firm to resume use of radioactive material
    • La dernière drave a 100 ans!
    • SRB gets 2-year operating licence
    • DTE Energy target of Canadian suit
    • Firm to resume making glow-in-the-dark signs
    • Border battles: Canada, U.S. increasingly at odds over pollution issues
    • Dirty river could overflow taxes
    • Stop uranium mining until study is done on impact: coalition
    • Riverkeeper questions how waterways are protected Citizen-based organization calls for ‘right to know’
    • Mayor vows to track sewage error
    • Councillors agree to sewage leak study
    • Panel backs review of Kanata West plan
    • PCBs, fuel leaking into St. Lawrence River, pollution watchdog says
    • A river runs through them
    • First nations join pool of fisheries petitioners
    • Province bars development on 3,600 hectares of Goulbourn wetland
    • Troubled waters for miners, environmentalists
    • Timber on the river
    • Lafarge loses bid to stop hearing into tire and waste-burning at Bath cement kiln
    • Province bars development on 3,600 hectares of Goulbourn wetland
    • His name is Earl ...
    • E. coli delays beach opening
    • Giant figure in local history
    • Ottawa beaches not safe for swimmers
    • Money down the river
    • Dirty water fight
    • City mulls river chlorination
    • Les résidants devront payer pour l'eau potable
    • River report calls for focus on waste
    • Report river sewage leaks
    • River’s dirty little secret
    • La province veut éviter un autre déversement d'eaux usées
    • Group boiling over Kettle route
    • De l‘appui pour l’île Kettle
    • NAFTA’s Dimming Light
    • Let information flow
    • SRBT’s fate lies with safety commission
    • Randonnée de canoë lors du solstice d’été
    • SRBT seeks new licence
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper warns local residents about threats to their water supply
    • We must end sewage dumping in our river
    • Raising a stink
    • $85M plant helps city clean up act
    • Rivers flooded with Ottawa’s sewage
    • Beyond the sewage spill
    • Untreated river water worries some users
    • National heritage status flows toward Ottawa River
    • Ban-tastic!
    • L eau est une ressource collective à préserver
    • Protecting Canadians rights
    • Le traversier de Rockland pourrait être en service le mois prochain
    • Jock River development scrapped
    • Feds willing to help keep sewage out of Ottawa River
    • Baird pledges to find city $20M to fix sewers
    • Déversement volontaire
    • Water use message floats to Parliament Hill
    • Ships, rocks and navigation: updates on key environmental cases
  • May
    • Spill a tempest in a teapot
    • Water quality at issue
    • Petrie smells fishy: MPP
    • Baird wades into sewage fiasco
    • Ottawa River orphaned by bureaucracy: conservationists
    • ‘Wastewatergate’ sparks firing, probe
    • Feds launch own probe of massive Ottawa sewage spill
    • Feds to investigate sewage leak
    • OPG discusses river levels
    • Employee who lied about sewage leak fired
    • Government of Canada Investigating Ottawa River Sewage Discharge
    • Ottawa congédie l employé
    • Environnement Canada fera enquête
    • Feds to launch own probe into Ottawa sewage spill
    • Un employé de la Ville est suspendu
    • City of Ottawa worker suspended over 1.2B-litre sewage spill
    • Ottawa suspend un employé
    • City employee suspended in connection with sewage scandal
    • Près de 200 citoyens sans eau potable à Gatineau
    • Hopping mad over dirty water
    • City of Ottawa worker suspended over 1.2B-litre sewage spill
    • Awww, crap! City could face charges
    • Much ado about poo
    • Sewage spill went unreported
    • City worker suspended for failing to report massive sewage leak
    • Pesticides Act, Fisheries Act: Major changes coming
    • Despite troubles at the city’s other beaches, Petrie Island always gets the dirty end of the stick, says business owner
    • O Brien to launch probe into raw-sewage leak
    • Matter of public trust
    • Une enquête indépendante
    • Independent review into Petrie contamination announced
    • Ottawa ready to pull plug on Chalk River plant
    • America wants our water: Kennedy
    • Sewer overflow backwash
    • Who is accountable for Petrie Island fiasco?
    • Fecal Gate begs bigger questions
    • Sewage protocol sought
    • New system to report raw sewage discharge to be developed
    • Poo-Gate won’t end with heads rolling
    • Le maire O Brien veut des réponses
    • L information coulera plus rapidement
    • What’s the poop on Petrie scoop?
    • Petrie solutions more than spin
    • Councillor questions delay in reporting sewage spill near Petrie beach
    • Open sewage pipe fouled Petrie Island beach
    • Ottawa rejetait des eaux usées dans la rivière
    • City has grate expectorations
    • Open sewage pipe fouled Petrie Island beach
    • Don’t take water for granted
    • Faulty sewer gate poured poo onto Petrie beach
    • Communication ‘shortfall’ in publicizing gate glitch, staff say
    • Sewage Leak Explained
    • AECL pulls plug on reactors after millions spent
    • Baird signs endorsement; Ottawa River takes another step toward heritage designation
    • Heritage river designation ‘comes with a price’ - CCW
    • AECL aborts development work on MAPLE medical isotope reactors (AECL-MAPLE)
    • CCW still has a lot to offer
    • Les ministres Baird et Cansfield appuient la mise en candidature de la rivière des Outaouais au Réseau des rivières du patrimoine canadien
    • Pickard malfunction linked to beach closures
    • Quebec to protect 18,000 square kilometres from development
    • Les rivières Dumoine et Rouge protégées
    • Territoires protégés - On donne le grand coup
    • MP responds to river designation
    • City wants do-over on Carp River study
    • Right to navigation under review
    • The city crumbles
    • City must save green space
    • Heritage designation may lead to cleaner Ottawa River
    • Council moves to end Kanata West conflict
    • Heritage designation won’t hurt power plants
    • Attention walleye and sauger anglers
    • The river’s heritage
    • Heritage designation for Ottawa River finally on course after committee waded through many political challenges
    • Canada geese problem deserves a gander
    • Gallant speaks about river designation
  • April
    • Petite Nation - La situation s'améliore
    • New light bulbs for pollution plant cost $19,000
    • Petite-Nation: La rivière fait des siennes
    • L'eau monte dangereusement
    • Windsor ‘the most polluted city in North America’: RFK Jr.
    • Group blames MP for delay in Ottawa River Heritage Designation
    • High lake water levels causing flooding
    • Inondations: plusieurs secteurs sous surveillance
    • Health advocates laud move to ban pesticides
    • Rivers few feet above normal, but flooding contained
    • Audit finds Kanata West flood study flawed, incomplete
    • Ottawa Auditor slams City, findings bolsters whistleblower complaint
    • Atwood, Stephen Lewis and Others Call Ontario to Action
    • Un moratoire réclamé
    • Sewer line for Manotick seeps discord
    • Monitoring the Ottawa River
    • Carp River’s time has come, say friends of humble waterway
    • Les niveaux montent
    • St. Lawrence River Listed as One of the Most Endangered Rivers in U.S.
    • Rural Canadians get contaminated drinking water from livestock and human waste run-off
    • Ontario to ban pesticides.
    • Quebec braces as water levels rise to flood levels
    • Quebec braces as water levels rise to flood levels
    • St. Lawrence has strength: experts
    • Nouvelle aire protégée en Outaouais
    • River surfers take ride on ‘Champlain wave’
    • Soil at school concerns group
    • La crue menace: Montréal en mode «alerte»
    • Baird stalls Ottawa River honour
    • Le temps doux appréhendé
    • Indian River water level drops over weekend
    • Inondations à prévoir
    • Flood warnings issued for Ottawa River
    • La Sécurité civile et Hydro-Québec se mobilisent
    • A toxic place to work
    • Ottawa’s Rideau River overflows banks
    • Les bernaches se font attendre
    • Dewar lobbies for preservation of Ottawa River
    • Ottawa’s communal toilet
    • Warden supports heritage request
    • Rideau River breaches banks, flooding Ottawa streets
    • Rideau River has already hit peak, flood risk minimal, officials say
    • Inspired by Ottawa, artist captures brilliant colour
    • Citizens’ Inquiry Draws A Crowd In Sharbot Lake
    • Rainy forecast prompts flood fears
    • La rivière Rideau sort de son lit
    • Warning - spring flooding possible
    • Slow flow surprises experts
    • Tensions high as river
    • Politics may be problem says group; Ottawa River Heritage Designation Committee is still waiting for an answer
    • RIDEAU VALLEY FLOOD WARNING
    • Time to start paying water’s real price
    • CNSC staff supports SRB
    • City beach alert
    • 'I think I did the right thing'
    • City looks into ways to stop contamination of Petrie Island beach
    • Protect Canada’s water, Ottawa urged
    • Attention aux infiltrations d'eau
    • Les causes de pollution à l’Île Petrie toujours inconnues
    • Jake Rupert, Ottawa Citizen
    • Spring chills out
    • Brenner talks tritium
    • Rivière sous haute surveillance
  • March
    • Rain adds to flood risk
    • Ottawa River heritage bid stalled at environment minister’s office
    • Les risques moins importants que prévu
    • Spring thaw unlikely to lead to serious floods
    • Il faut laisser l'étude sur les ponts se faire
    • Changes likely in wake of Petrie Island water study
    • Our Drugged Drinking Water: 3 Solutions
    • Swimming in filth
    • University professor warns against use of sludge on farmland
    • Low water rates, crumbling pipes
    • Pharmaceuticals found in water
    • Drugs found in Ontario water: Study
    • First Nations Perspective: Climate change
    • Weather wreaks havoc on ice fishing hut removal
    • River action plan demanded
    • La rivière des Outaouais doit être mieux protégée
    • Pollutants endanger Ottawa water: MP
    • Spring melt could be ‘a real mess’
    • 20 Years after Zebra Mussel Invasion, United States, Canada Remain at Risk
    • Heritage designation gets backing from Renfrew County Council; Councillors want “strongly worded letter” sent to politicians
    • Groups call for comprehensive reform of Ontario’s outdated mining laws
    • Fishermen race to save ice huts
    • Report exposes dirt on E. coli
    • Petrie’s No. 2 problem
    • SHORELINE WORK RESTRICTIONS FOR FISH SPAWNING
    • Toujours pas d'eau potable pour des résidences riveraines à Masson-Angers
    • City fails water purity test
    • Grands utilisateurs et grands pollueurs d’eau
    • Traitement des eaux usées avec désinfection par rayonnement ultraviolet: La prudence est de mise!
    • Ottawa Misses Deadline to Clean Up Water
    • City soaks up salt
    • Ottawa river-watchers hope for minimum spring flooding
    • Cities need up to $20 billion for sewage treatment: report
    • Pharmaceuticals lurking in U.S. drinking water
    • Top ecology groups issue joint blueprint
    • Flood risks expected to grow with snow
    • A new fate for phosphates
    • Why Bob Lovelace is in jail; A message is being sent to mining
    • Nuclear options
    • Water users getting hosed
    • Dump to convert gas to power in attempt to cut stench
    • Preserving endangered species a low priority
    • Heritage site designation for the Ottawa River in jeopardy
    • SRBT president updates city finance committee on tritium situation
  • February
    • Ottawa council calls for uranium moratorium in eastern Ontario
    • Water bills must rise 29.5% over 3 years: city
    • Ottawa joint sa voix à celles de 11 municipalités
    • Un présumé déversement de neige illégal
    • AECL: A $300-million lifeline
    • Government of Canada Invests in Small Craft Harbours at Constance Bay and Fitzroy Harbour
    • Ontario vetoes west-end bridge
    • Whitewater residents don’t want Pembroke sewage
    • Truth lost in the flood
    • NDP introduces bill to regulate bottled water labels
    • Second city engineer voices concerns about Kanata West plans
    • Jailing Aboriginal Leaders to Promote Uranium Mining in Ontario
    • Thirst for green energy has its cost
    • Lessons from a long fight
    • Le ministre Baird se joint à la lutte contre les algues bleues
    • Joint review launched into Chalk River shutdown
    • Development of Petrie Island recreation site falls flat
    • A lord’s legacy of lost beauty
    • Pas d'embouteillage à Gatineau
    • New water project moves forward for Allumette Island
    • Councillor wants to replace ferry
    • Ministry probes conflict of interest claim over proposed Kanata West development
    • One man’s garbage is another man’s power: Plasco turns first load of waste into electricity
    • Ottawa got early warning on isotopes, firm says
    • Uranium mining talks collapse
    • Scientists, Politicians Aim to Tackle Drugs in the Water Supply
    • AECL slow to earthquake-proof reactor, official admits
    • Isotope crisis overblown, MDs say
    • New law would ban water removal on environmental grounds
    • Canada ignored global efforts to ensure isotope supply: medical journal
    • Kanata West project halted as city looks into flooding concerns
    • Ferry owner makes toll bridge offer
    • Sweet vindication for crusading engineer
    • Kanata West put on hold
    • Man who almost lost his job, to be congratulated for a job well done
    • Kanata development on hold due to flood prediction error
    • Work completed to connect Pump #104 to NRU’s seismically qualified EPS
    • Rural residents face growing water woes
    • SRBT seeking amendment to resume processing tritium
    • Pond Hockey Tournament
    • Worried about Water
  • January
    • Group opposes Gatineau’s plan to add fluoride to water
    • Mayors broker deal to pipe water into Russell
    • Montreal choisit l'ozonation
    • Russell aura de l'eau potable en 2009
    • Kettle Island, Lac Deschenes best spots for bridges: traffic study
    • Keen defends decision to shut reactor in name of safety
    • Deal opens Ottawa taps for township
    • Montréal va désinfecter les eaux usées
    • Un parc national pour la Dumoine?
    • Le deuxième round débute aujourd'hui
    • Bientôt de l'eau fluorée à Gatineau
    • Arms length regulators: Fine, but how long is an arm?
    • Ottawa’s Keeper of the River
    • Editorial: Don’t mess with nuclear safety
    • City considers fast-tracking lead pipe replacements
    • Uranium mining dangers being hidden, expert warns
    • Human activity defines new epoch: scientists
    • Celebs promote water conservation
    • Saskatchewan uranium expert brings warning to eastern Ontario, western Quebec
    • Reprise de service
    • Chalk River: The scandal behind the scandal
    • Chalk River crisis sired by AECL
    • Chalk River crisis sired by AECL
    • No interference
    • She’s doing her job
    • Call an inquiry
    • Responsibility for isotope crisis should be shared
    • GOVERNMENT TO CONSULT ON BANNING THE COSMETIC USE OF PESTICIDES
    • Feud puts into question new reactors for Ontario
    • Les traversiers immobilisés
    • PM defends firing of nuclear watchdog
    • Gary Lunn’s nuclear meltdown
    • Documents show history of problems
    • Colleagues stand by fired nuclear watchdog
    • Nuclear safety watchdog head fired for ‘lack of leadership’: minister
    • Head of nuclear watchdog fired
    • Ruling paves way for mercury emissions lawsuit
    • Environmentalists push Queen’s Park for pesticide ban
    • Vers un retour à la normale
    • Tories mulling private AECL?
    • AECL ignored, underfunded for 15 years
    • Nuclear fight a symbol of PS ‘disintegration’
    • AECL ignored, underfunded for 15 years
    • Harper praises Lunn, assails nuclear watchdog
    • Harper takes new swipe at nuclear watchdog
    • Community Garden
    • Auditor cited reactor upgrade as priority
    • Auditor general pulled into AECL fray
    • Minister meddled in nuclear affairs: watchdog
    • Watchdog urges review of nuclear plant
    • Christie Lake Secures Support for Lake Management Plan
    • Tories set to fire top nuclear watchdog
    • Above-average temperatures bring flood warnings
    • Waterways Warning
• Year: 2007
  • December
    • Il est trop tôt pour poser les cabanes
    • High levels of radioactive tritium found in Pembroke landfill
    • Bring back fountains
    • Gatineau veut promouvoir davantage l'eau du robinet
    • Annual bird count is ‘citizen science’ in action
    • Quebec re-regulates its forests
    • Cantley landfill to remain closed pending appeal, Quebec judge rules
    • Water bottle ban could be coming
    • Canada’s safety watchdogs
    • How low can we go? Canada’s environmental descent
    • Grandmother Donna Dillman to End Hunger Strike against Uranium Mining in eastern Ontario
    • Wrong signals over Chalk River
    • Reactor safety issue splits community
    • Follow up - Ottawa community forum: Is bottled water safe?
    • Nuclear fallout: Ottawa takes a tough line
    • Ottawa thwarts nuclear watchdog
    • Un plan d‘action pour les plans d’eau
    • Bill C-32 Canada’s proposed new Fisheries Act
    • Action group wants city to stop buying bottled water
    • Gatineau listens to residents
    • Cottagers turn to chemical solution for trout farm mess
    • Rivers at Risk
    • Grave Waters
    • Despite Ottawa area’s good scores, local experts worry about what’s not measured
    • Ontario’s worst waterway
    • More people, scarce water
  • November
    • Top scientist wants moratorium on thirsty oil sands projects
    • New Fisheries Act Tabled in Parliament
    • Bottled water companies just swimming in profits
    • Une année 2007 très bien remplie pour le Comité du bassin versant de la rivière du Lièvre
    • Water Meter Decision divides Hawkesbury council
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper weighs in on Hawkesbury sewage treatment woes
    • Lawsuit launched to save 9000-year old Ottawa wetland
    • Lawsuit launched to save 9000-year old Ottawa wetland
    • South Nation lifts drought warning
    • Streams bounce back from decades of acid rain, study finds
    • Soutien pour l'acquisition de milieux naturels et la reconnaissance de réserves naturelles
    • Tension peaks over waterfront study
    • OPG retrofits dams to squeeze out more hydro
    • Le nettoyage de la lagune prend forme
    • Les gens préfèrent un pont à l'est
    • Invasive weed threatens Ottawa River species
    • Town’s residents test positive for uranium contamination
    • We’re off the bench and into the game
    • A voice for Quebec’s wilderness
    • Watchdog sitting on PCB report, groups say
    • More radioactive waste turning up in Ontario landfills
    • Starving for a cause
    • Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Committee Members Announced
    • Disappearance of indigenous baby boys tied to industrial pollution
    • Ontario urged to look into radioactivity alerts
    • Why are environmental assessments so costly?
    • OPG to seek 14-per-cent rate hike
  • October
    • Green plan has commissioner seeing red
    • Gerretsen takes on the environment; Kingston MPP switches portfolios as premier shuffles cabinet
    • Il faut soutenir les investissements destinés à la protection de l’environnement
    • Protecting planet a matter of survival, Suzuki says; ‘This is a profound moment in human history,’ forum told
    • On the waterfront
    • Water Experts Propose Blueprint for Federal Action on Freshwater
    • Hunger striker battling uranium mine vows to keep Ontario’s ‘feet to the fire’
    • West Quebec in the dumps
    • Now or never to save Earth, UN warns
    • Abundance of freshwater ‘a myth’
    • Nuclear waste top concern for Canada, experts say
    • Mise aux normes des infrastructures d’eau potable de Rigaud
    • Masson-Cumberland - L‘idée d’aménager un pont refait surface
    • WATER POLICY: CALL FOR ‘RADICAL IMPROVEMENTS’
    • Gatineau forecasts $8.7-million surplus for '07
    • CNSC Announces Decision on a Financial Guarantee for the Future Decommissioning of SRB Technologies\' Facility Located in Pembroke, Ontario
    • Two new sites on shortlist for bridge
    • Follow up - Ottawa community forum: Is bottled water safe?
    • Bridge routes: Possibilities for spans over Ottawa River angers councilllors
    • Record low water levels
    • Public input yields 2 new Ottawa River crossing options
    • Le COBALI s’implique pour un Gatineau plus bleu
    • Protesters end blockade
    • DuPont Lawsuit Winds Down
    • DuPont Lawsuit Winds Down
    • Multinational companies to thank for reduction in toxins: NAFTA study
    • Quebec environment ministry shuts down Cantley landfill
    • Pollution case dropped
    • Air gets dirtier, water even worse: StatsCan report
    • Waste Management to offer new options for Carp Road landfill
    • Les Gatinois optent pour l'Île Kettle
    • Feds denounced for staying sewage pollution charge
    • Committee OKs sale of water to Russell
    • PCBs will plague whales for decades, study finds
    • Protesters get weekend to decide course of action; Warrants will be issued for the arrest of anyone occupying the uranium mine site after October 10
    • Watchdog seen as too cozy with nuclear industry
    • Worrisome tidings from Montreal’s shores
    • Your tap, your toilet and the Great Lake
  • September
    • Quebec dumps on Outaouais landfill site
    • Exploitation d'uranium - Manifestation sur la colline du Parlement
    • L‘implantation d’un dépotoir à Danford Lake n'est pas souhaitable selon le BAPE
    • Baird pledges tough rules on sewage in waterways
    • Quebec plans phosphate limit to fight algae
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper supports protesters fighting proposed uranium mining around Sharbot Lake
    • Journée stratégique sur les algues bleues : Plusieurs des recommandations du RNCREQ seront mises de l’avant
    • Low Water Levels in Rideau Watershed
    • Politique environnementale: Gatineau se lance enfin
    • Canada’s Pristine Freshwater Fisheries At Risk
    • Uranium fight on rise
    • Déjà 300 000 $ récoltés pour la forêt Boucher
    • Ste. Anne canal commemorated
    • Britannia could finally get its berm
    • New $2.2M dam bypass draws a trickle of boats
    • So, who owns the lakebed?
    • Ottawa restaurant pulls the plug on bottled water
    • Uranium dispute prompts tax revolt
    • River water on the brain — and in the ear
    • Uranium mine protesters use drums, voices to drown out words of injunction
  • August
    • Echoes of the past
    • Uranium mine protesters use drums, voices to drown out words of injunction
    • La ville d'Ottawa ne se préoccupe pas des algues bleues
    • Trois fois trop de plomb dans les eaux du lac Leamy
    • Pollution, carp health in Kawarthas played a role in carp die-off: MNR biologist
    • Organic Retreat
    • La Ville de Gatineau part en guerre contre les phosphates
    • Petitcodiac Riverkeeper moves ahead with lawsuit Justice Group hopes to force federal government to move ahead with river restoration
    • River cause goes national
    • Mining/surface rights resolution deferred
    • Notes from up and down the valley
    • Une pétition est lancée
    • Protection accrue pour les lacs
    • Le fleuve contaminé
    • Ministry needs your help to heal Ottawa River eel
    • Make Domtar’s loss Ottawa’s gain
    • Chalk River reactors a nuclear nightmare
    • World experts to discuss blue-green algae problem
    • Prosecution against U.S. company halted
    • Still no definitive answers as carp die-off wanes
    • The City of Ottawa is now providing Water Efficiency Kits to every resident who registers
    • What’s happening to Canada’s belugas?
    • CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES - Cottagers irked by prospecting
    • Raising a stink at Carp Road
    • Domtar : de l'industrie lourde au tourisme ?
    • Plant closing ends chapter in Ottawa’s lumber history
  • July
    • The real price of water
    • Quebec marina owner ignores province’s blue-green algae warnings
    • Quebec blue-green algae problem overblown: researcher
    • NCC tests algae at O’Brien Beach to determine whether it’s toxic
    • The bridge quandary
    • Petrie’s Landing development ready to launch
    • Mining Act needs overhaul
    • Canada’s newest environment officers set to help turn the country green
    • Algues bleues : Le lac Meech contaminé
    • Cavalier about water
    • Riverkeeper seeks to protect the Ottawa
    • Les algues bleues au Québec vues de la France
    • Lady Luck smiling on Petrie Island beach
    • O'Brien Beach in Gatineau Closed
    • Clean Beach Summer in Ottawa
    • Changes in rainfall man-made, Canadian scientists say
    • MP’s fish story?
    • Exploding the myth of Canada as an environmental leader
    • Elevating environmental discourse
    • Jean Charest appelé à réagir à la prolifération des algues bleues par la Fédération québécoise des municipalités
    • A look at past fish-kills
    • A look at past fish-kills
    • Water troubles everywhere
    • Smallmouth bass, one large claim
    • Concerned about pollution? How to protect your community
    • Un biologiste de Val-des-Monts ne croit pas aux méthodes douces
    • Water quality is ‘ticking time bomb’
    • There’s no saving us from rainy days
    • There’s no saving us from rainy days
    • Non-natives support Algonquins' mining rallies
    • Call of the river
    • Cantley residents suffered, tribunal hears
    • ‘New tests needed’ for chemicals
    • La CCN réévaluera les terrains du gouvernement fédéral
    • Politics shut Cantley dump, owner argues
    • Blue-green algae contamination a crisis: Quebec officials
    • Toilets key to cutting water use: Miller
    • Petrie: Nice beach, so-so water
    • Politicians unite to call for Kettle Island bridge
    • Botulism causes waterfowl die-off in Lake Ontario
    • THE ALGONQUIN CLAIM: What’s at stake, who’s involved
    • ‘Hourglass is empty’ in Petitcodiac causeway fight: environmental group
    • Nouveau au Patrimoine mondial
    • UXO meeting very quiet
  • June
    • Life interrupted: The Rideau Canal’s ecological mystery
    • Rideau Canal joins Pyramids as world heritage site
    • Council favours Kettle Island bridge crossing
    • Power boats bring danger to Rideau
    • Rideau Canal confirmed to win
    • Construction de ponts interprovinciaux en Outaouais
    • ONTARIO’S DRINKING WATER QUALITY “TOP-NOTCH”
    • Étude sur le tracé d‘un pont : l’avis des élus d'Ottawa ne pèsera pas très lourd
    • City committee sets course for Kettle Island bridge
    • Thousands of Canadians poisoned by pesticides each year
    • Legendre ne veut pas de pont à l'île Kettle
    • River still dirty, say advocates
    • Guardians Look to Clean Up Ottawa River
    • Swimmer’s itch
    • Councillors hot for Kettle Island bridge
    • Who’s the greenest of them all?
    • Pollution, plastics affect boys more, group report says
    • Pont interprovincial: parmi les élus d‘Ottawa la balance penche en faveur de l’Île Kettle
    • Voyage Rivière en santé accoste à Hawkesbury
    • CFB Petawawa’s beaches now open
    • Nuclear waste storage plan will be safe, minister says
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper concerned about the health of the Ottawa River
    • Ottawa women pick up parasite from river
    • The water’s fine
    • Woman Swimming in the Ottawa River Now Has Parasites
    • Tritium levels dangerously high at Pembroke factory: report
    • Danger of tritium exposure underrated, report says
    • Trash-talking gang
    • Canadians celebrated Canadian Rivers Day
    • What’s yours is mine
    • Len Hopkins to be honoured
    • Environmental groups fear loss of influence with Fisheries Act changes
    • Ontario Sets Toughest Penalties in Canada for Industries that Pollute Water
    • À Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, seulement de la pluie dans les égouts
    • Consultation publique sur les futurs ponts
    • Trois conseillers préfèrent un pont sur l'île Kettle
    • Québec se trompe de cible dans sa lutte contre les algues bleues
    • Over troubled waters
    • Proposed east-end sites for interprovincial bridge raise concerns
    • Jean-Marc Lalonde est favorable à la venue d'un nouveau pont
    • PROVINCE’S WATER FURTHER PROTECTED
    • Inaugural Launch of the “River Healing Journey”
  • May
    • LARGEST FLOTILLA TO PASS PARLIAMENT IN 100s OF YEARS
    • 400 000 $ pour assainir les eaux de la Lièvre
    • Disabling the Fisheries Act: House of Commons debate set for Tuesday
    • Le traitement de l'eau expliqué aux citoyens
    • Jim Watson s‘oppose à la construction d’un pont au niveau du lac Deschênes
    • Étude sur un nouveau pont : déjà la controverse
    • Bridging the gap
    • Estrogen threatens minnow manhood
    • Estrogen making fish too female to reproduce
    • Ontario passes tough endangered species legislation
    • SRBT gets licence amendment
    • La CCSN annonce sa décision concernant la modification du permis de possession de SRB Technologies (Canada) Inc. pour son installation située à Pembroke (Ontario)
    • CNSC Announces Decision on Amendment of Possession Licence for SRB Technologies (Canada) Inc.’s Facility located in Pembroke, Ontario
    • Why do we do this?
    • Water, water, everywhere and no one’s stopped to think
    • Mayors float ban on wasteful toilets
    • Gatineau enacts fines for water violators
    • Une facture symbolique de 1700 $ pour les pollueurs
    • Hydro helps athletes ride ‘bus-eating’ wave
  • April
    • Gatineau to resume battle against mosquitoes
    • Ontario gives Plasco $4M for Ottawa waste project
    • La STO réévalue la fuite de diesel à 30 000 litres
    • Petrie Island pavilion a shore thing
    • Le MEO et le MRN manquent de fonds pour exercer des fonctions prioritaires
    • MOE, MNR starved of funding for core functions
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper seeks fresh blood to monitor ecology
    • Belted Kingfisher fascinating
    • Canada’s water can’t be taken for granted
    • City to hunt for source of E. coli at Petrie Island
    • Checking out the chemicals in your blood
    • SRBT needs licence amendment to stay in business
    • The first phase of regulations under the Clean Water Act, 2006
    • Les kayakistes veulent retrouver leurs parcours à Ottawa
    • Revised fence to offer better view of kayak rapids
    • Un Gatinois qui veut “se faire” une grosse vague
    • It’s time to put water gluttons on a diet
    • Why we don’t have a choice about treating sewage
    • New field coordinator to bolster Canadian Waterkeepers
    • Eat locally
    • River turns to acid as train derails
    • Carp dump owners invite community to go eco-friendly
  • March
    • Le Saint-Laurent sous surveillance
    • N.B. river group threatens Ottawa with court action
    • Legal action may be taken to remove Moncton causeway
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper has some concerns
    • Poll sparks new debate on pesticides
    • Flooding possible in area
    • Première phase pour un nouveau pont sur l'Outaouais
    • Tunnel among options for Ottawa River crossing
    • Almost 4 out of 5 Canadians believe in global warming: poll
    • GVRD & BC government face charges over Iona sewage treatment plant
    • SHORELINE WORK RESTRICTIONS FOR FISH SPAWNING
    • La réglementation 2007-2009 sur la pêche sportive au Quebec est disponible
    • Rough seas for fish bill, Part II
    • Reviving SRBT not without challenges; Survival depends on nuclear safety commission ruling
    • DTE Energy Company accused of environmental offences in Canada
    • More Consultation Needed to Update Fisheries Act, Liberals Say
    • SRBT wants amendment to licence
    • Municipalities face liability over aging pipes
    • Minister at odds with industry, opposition on tough fishery law
  • February
    • La nouvelle Loi sur les pêches met en péril les eaux canadiennes, prévient le Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
    • New Fisheries Act jeopardizes Canada’s waters, warns Waterkeeper
    • Fisheries Act on the brink?
    • Federal minister says new Fisheries Act may be dead in the water
    • Fallout from Walkerton; Farmers are overwhelmed by bureaucratic red tape to ensure tainted-water tragedy doesn’t happen again
    • Ontario’s Water Crisis: At what cost?
    • Federal Tories accused of diluting commitment to protect fisheries, waterways
    • Les nouvelles aires protégées ne touchent pas l'Outaouais
    • Ontario’s lakes and rivers are in decline
    • WATER; It’s cheap. It’s clean. And we take it for granted. Are we in for a rude awakening?
    • L'île Kettle devient une aire protégée
    • Fassett recevra 2 millions $ pour l’assainissement des eaux usées
    • Municipality of Fassett receives $2,095,400 in funding for wastewater treatment
    • Ottawa is failing to enforce Fisheries Act relating to forestry industry’s effluents
    • Critics applaud nuclear decision
    • Firm in hot water over radioactive material
    • Group welcomes news about SRBT licence rejection
    • Buying bottled water is wrong, says Suzuki
    • Ottawa harnesses the power of trash
    • Une firme pollueuse perd son permis
    • Company denied nuclear processing licence
    • Annual sandsculpting festival blamed for Gatineau’s disappearing lake
  • January
    • CNSC Announces Decision to Issue a Possession Licence to SRB Technologies (Canada) Inc.
    • SRB Technologies loses radioactivity processing licence
    • COURT FINDS MASSIVE POWER PLANT FISH KILLS ILLEGAL
    • Celebrities support Waterkeepers Alliance
    • Environment motivating Ontario voters, pollster says
    • WATER BUG WISDOM
    • Public Wants More Dollars for Environment Says Environmental Commissioner
    • A torrent of water woes
    • City sees riches in contaminated properties
    • Finance bosses want water bill boost
    • 2007: The environment’s time
• Year: 2006
  • December
    • Storing water for emergencies unsafe, expert says
    • Environment alliance says nuclear ads misleading
    • GVRD faces new charge of pollution: Environmental groups file complaint over sewage plant
    • Gatineau sewage flows with Ottawa’s into river
    • Groups file charge over sewage plant
    • Nuclear Power No Solution to Climate Change: Pembina Institute
    • Eau Canada: The Future of Canada’s Water
    • CANADA’S NEW GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE THE FISHERIES ACT
    • Pollution law is outdated, experts warn
    • Ottawa cracks down on toxic chemicals
    • LeBreton sewer problems threat to kayaking, fish
    • City comes clean over river’s toilet treatment
    • A wasteful tax system
  • November
    • SRB Technologies gets temporary nuclear licence renewal
    • Deux mois de sursis pour une firme accusée de polluer
    • City sewage fouls fish spawning grounds
    • City committee wants province to revisit nuclear power plans
    • Pembroke firm pledges to improve record on handling tritium
    • SRB hearing continues on Monday
    • Valley awash in pollution fears
    • Environmental groups pan company’s radioactive waste plan
    • Company plans to dump radioactive waste into Ottawa River
    • Inspections of sign firm urged
    • Une firme de Pembroke est accusée de polluer
    • Une compagnie veut augmenter ses rejets de tritium dans l'environnement
    • Senator’s report could drive riverfront development
    • Looking after the Ottawa River
    • Lake Sturgeon Risks Extinction - Canada Researchers
    • City memo glosses over water issue
    • Flush with cash: Sewer fees skyrocket
    • Waterkeepers unite in their fight to save Fisheries Act
    • Fish stocks face collapse ‘within our lifetime’
  • October
    • Waterkeeper launches the Clean Water Primers
    • Aylmer residents hire independent expert to study Cook Landfill Site
    • City, residents sue over sewage flood in Kanata North homes
    • Les résidents en bordure du site Cook font appel à Fondex
    • SRB Technologies seeks glow of approval from nuclear safety commission
    • Petawawa River’s contamination source unknown; Fecal matter found in water
    • Radioactive issue
    • Environment Canada Flings Door Wide Open to Toxic Dumping in Canada’s Lakes
    • Letter to the Editor: Public dangers of radiation
    • Composting plant too costly, group says - Gatineau association wants project vetoed
    • Firm hoping sewage mix dilutes radioactive water
    • Politics trumps bid for clean water
    • Committee sees pipeline as way to go at Navan dump
    • Canada: An ecological scofflaw?
    • Ottawa set to build leachate pipeline
    • 71 lacs contaminés au Québec
    • L‘algue bleue pollue la source d’eau potable de la ville de Québec
    • SCIENTISTS FIND FARM LINK TO BREAST CANCER
    • Quebec must act on algae: environment groups
    • MP Gallant questions whether new regulations will protect fish habitat
    • Feds fail in Canada’s Drinking Water Report Card
    • Water Resources Engineer Asks MNR Minister to Conduct Audit of Conservation Authority
    • Grave Consequences for Environmental Neglect, Warns Environmental Commissioner
  • September
    • Studying environmental risks
    • Compost fiasco could kill a good idea
    • Test results on Lake Massawippi water expected before weekend
    • Intact Northern Forests Worth $250 Billion a Year, According to Study
    • Judge: EPA must control ballast discharges by 2008
    • Quebec orders operators to close Cantley landfill
    • Company laments compost ‘hysteria’
    • Ban pesticides along Rideau, McRae suggests
    • ...et enterre le projet d'usine de boues septiques
    • City wants partners to deal with waste
    • Gatineau issues boil water advisory
    • Petrie Island water caused infection, kickboxer says
    • Risk of 4,000 everyday chemicals to be studied
    • Dealing with Canada’s Wastewater
    • Flood victims to get city help
    • Landfill closed in 1991 to reopen as compost plant
    • Government to identify toxins on pollutants list
    • Cinq tortues menacées sont à l’étude dans l’Est ontarien
    • Currents of controversy
    • Farmers get ‘good news’ on Clean Water Act
    • Millions of dollars create state-of-the-art facility; Expansion of pollution control centre officially opens today
    • Reclaiming the outdoors for our children
    • Floundering Fisheries Act needs to be brought into line with the times
    • Eaux usées: Ottawa veut mettre les villes au pas
  • August
    • Les Produits forestiers du Pontiac relance l'ancienne scierie Produits forestiers Coulonge
    • River watchers monitor health of Ottawa River
    • Farmer finds it pays off to ditch traditional methods
    • Le portrait et diagnostic du bassin versant de la rivière du Nord est disponible
    • S‘il est élu, Munter promet de jeter les bases d’un pont interprovincial à l'Est
    • Bacteria killed fish, scientists conclude
    • Ottawa River opened to swimmers
    • Protesters tell premier Clean Water Act is draconian
    • Conflict muddies new law on water
    • Ottawa lagging on protection of rare species, group says
    • There’s big money in sewage City plant selling hydro
    • Valley beaches reopen after catfish kill
    • Federal agency shuts down Pembroke firm - Nuclear safety commission cites high levels of radioactive tritium
    • They snap, but rarely bite
    • Further tests point to bacteria in deaths of Ottawa River fish
    • Beware the water at Petrie Island: Riverkeeper suggests swimmers stay upstream of Ottawa
    • Trip to beach rash decision
    • Gatineau councillor protests septic plant
    • Field Naturalists Took Temperature of Mississippi River Watershed
    • Tests suggest bacteria killing fish in Ottawa River
    • Two more fish test positive for waterborne bacterial disease
    • Dead fish couldn’t stand the heat?
    • Common bacterial disease found in dead catfish
    • Rare, endangered birds spotted at military base
    • Des centaines de poissons morts dans l'Outaouais
    • Des centaines de poissons morts sur la rivière
    • Catfish kill curious
    • Officials still perplexed by dead fish, comb river to unravel mystery
    • Découverte de centaines de poissons morts
    • Test Continue On Source of Dead Fish in River
    • Hundreds of dead fish wash up along Ottawa River
    • Dead catfish turn up near Ottawa River in Arnprior
    • Dead Fish Floating in Ottawa River
    • Ancient creatures, crown jewels
    • Why polluters love Quebec
    • Petrie no day at the beach
    • Pollution closes $2M beach most of summer
    • Deadly virus threatens Lake Ontario fish
    • Hazmat team called to investigate possible petroleum leak
    • Beaches Closed
    • Orleans residents voice flood concerns
    • Walleye finally get protection
    • Britannia says no to flood protection deal
    • Britannia residents block berm
    • A river boat journey of wonder
    • Barrage de Laniel - Les travaux de réfection sont interrompus
    • Orleans residents demand end to floods
    • Vivement le canal Rideau reconnu comme patrimoine mondial
  • July
    • Chat’s dam bypass opens
    • CNSC Approves Renewal of AECL’s Chalk River Site
    • Le permis d'exploitation de Chalk River est renouvellé
    • The secret, sexual lives of mussels
    • Saint-Isidore-de-Prescott : une première pelletée de terre en vue de l'eau potable
    • Tritium levels too high at plant, regulator finds
    • Tory environmental plan needs details
    • Quebecers turn to Ontario for banned pesticides
    • Chat’s Dam bypass to open today
    • John By’s masterpiece on display for the world
    • Waterkeeper expresses support for legislative changes re: species at risk in Ontario
    • Environment Canada study finds caffeine, prescription drugs in St. Lawrence
    • AECL to study waste site near Ottawa River
  • June
    • Paddling down from Ottawa
    • Un projet controversé pour Chalk River
    • Des déchets nucléaires en bordure de la rivière Ottawa
    • 28 new provincial parks and conservation reserves
    • Residents turn up noses at proposed Pontiac dump
    • Oxford Mills residents worry about plans to reopen garbage landfill
    • Environment watchdog slams Ontario for evading nuclear review
    • Waterkeeper Alliance Annual Meeting and Conference
    • Dry land suits tri champion
    • Certains de nos lacs meurent tranquillement
    • Keeper of the Ottawa
    • Toxins foul potential science museum site
    • Angling toward muskie, bass time
    • Alex Cullen fera pression pour que Queen’s Park bannisse les pesticides
    • L’implication citoyenne
    • Tories pledge $520 million to nuclear cleanup
    • Nuclear cleanup plan includes proposal for underground disposal
    • Get tough with mayor’s brother
    • Canada’s Toxic Kids: Pollutants Contaminate Children’s Bodies
    • Walkerton is water under the bridge, thankfully
  • May
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper calls for more stringent protection
    • L'équilibre écologique de la rivière des Outaouais est en danger
    • New Report Lists Threats to Ottawa River
    • Heritage river designation hope goes on without Quebec
    • Fitzroy Harbour bypass open soon?: Delegate speaks to waterway committee
    • River’s health at risk, says report
    • Grand nettoyage à Chalk River
    • Ottawa Riverkeeper stands on guard
    • Heritage river designation hope goes on without Quebec
    • Progress made with Clean Water Act
    • Spruce Falls Inc. pleaded guilty to charges under the Fisheries Act
    • OFA opposes Clean Water Act
    • Canadian Waterkeepers oppose weakening of Fisheries Act
    • NCC, Gatineau to spend $32M on waterfront park
    • PROVINCE UPDATES FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES
    • Lament for an era: of Philemon Wright and lumber
    • Engineers found guilty after Riverkeeper investigates, Environment Canada prosecutes
  • April
    • Rideau Canal an ecological mystery
    • Study won’t bridge gulf on river span
    • Flush With Success
    • Let the river connect us
    • Mulroney to PM: Push U.S. to go green
    • Quarry under fire
    • River threat drives group to City Hall
    • Tories strong allies in NCC’s waterfront park dream
    • City to supply more treated sewage to farmers
    • How much habitat is enough?
    • Despite Data, Canada Habitat Under Threat
    • New report shows tens of thousands of species around the world at risk of extinction
    • Regulations amending the metal mining effluent regulations
    • An Act to amend the Nuclear Energy Act passes first reading
    • Quebec beefs up pesticide ban
    • Clean Water Workshop wraps up 4th year
    • Ottawa stops funding One Tonne Challenge
  • March
    • Fish are off the hook as a mercury danger
    • Outaouais housing plan raises alarms
    • The Quebec Budget
    • Leading Global Nuclear Suppliers Join Forces to Form “Team CANDU
    • Planet not up for quick sale: Kennedy
    • Shoreline work restrictions for fish spawning
    • AECL unveils group of nuclear partners
    • Quebec to turn Gatineau ‘treasure’ into wildlife refuge
    • Pill-Popping Society Fouling Our Water, Official Says
    • Study Links IQ to Pesticide Use
    • Increase in nitrates still concern for South Nation Conservation
    • Retiree plans to paddle his canoe solo on 8,000-kilometre trek
    • Wet West End braces for floods
    • Eastern Ontario Model Forest — monthly newsletter
    • Ottawa River Levels
    • Environmental Assessments Approved Eastern Ontario Landfill
    • Error leaves developers in limbo
    • Separating the mess from the rest
    • Electricity plan requires provincial environmental assessment
  • February
    • Three cheers for city hall, and others
    • North Bay - Mattawa water quality must be protected
    • Fuel supply companies fined for 2004 oil spill
    • Ontario failing endangered species
    • Frank Chiarelli accused of failing to follow regulations before expanding golf couse
    • Ottawa-area reserve still waiting for clean tap water
    • Bush’s coal-plant rules under fire
    • Proposed Expansion of Waste Management Landfill - EA Terms of Reference Available
    • Pig industry flies out of Quebec
    • City of Ottawa’s plan for Carp River a cause for concern
    • Years of hard work by province and local groups saves vulnerable wetland
    • Sending city cash off a ramp
    • Committee OKs funds to get boats past dam
    • Make winter tires mandatory, environmentalists say
    • Cutting Air Pollution Delivers “Big Bang for Your Buck"?
    • (Em)Powering Ontario: town hall tour should raise questions
    • Boat bypass plan clears final hurdle
    • Fitzroy Harbour boat bypass nears approval
  • January
    • WM plans to expand Ottawa facility
    • Health, safety and environmental laws at risk due to “smart regulation
    • Pulp and paper mill’s legacy still haunts Hawkesbury
    • Stop subsidizing Ontario’s nuclear reactors
    • Polluted site becomes hot election issue
    • Martin announces $1-billion water cleanup
• Year: 2005
  • December
    • Danford Lake to fight proposed dump
    • Waterway traffic Down, MRC stands firm to support
    • Ontario to protect drinking water
    • Coveted by NCC, Chaudiere Island is ‘a national treasure’
  • November
    • Prophetic Words about Nuclear Spills
    • Proposed Bridge over Ottawa River
    • Lengthy hog farm saga near the end
    • NCC orders rancher to abandon Meech Creek
    • High Court Upholds Ban on Pesticides
    • Town of Deep River Agrees to Draft Pesticide Bylaw
    • Tembec pays $1 million for polluting
    • Tembec reaches settlement with the Government of Quebec
    • Forestry company fined record amount
    • Canadians a Toxic Lot, Study Finds
    • Our mediocre politicians
  • October
    • Arnprior Fined $50, 000 For Discharging Raw Sewage
    • Pointe-Gatineau Landfill
  • September
    • Official Report Slams Canada Over Environment
    • Fish win out over golf club’s search for more water
    • Officials Probe Pollution Threat in Gatineau
    • Ontario’s illegal water polluters revealed
    • Water Levels at a Historic Low
    • Water problem heads south
  • August
    • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind
    • A river’s story: Ottawa is shaped by the water that runs through it
    • A river’s story: Ottawa is shaped by the water that runs through it
    • Senator disobeys environmental regulations and alters shoreline on the Gatineau R.
  • July
    • Dozens of Chemicals Found in Most Americans' Bodies
    • AECL to keep Chalk River Reactor going another 35 years
    • Ontario Government passes Bill 133 “The Spills Bill
  • June
    • Members Elect New President and Directors to Ottawa Riverkeeper Board
    • Members Elect New President and Directors to Ottawa Riverkeeper Board
    • NO Cleanup of Toxic Parliament Hill Site in Near Future
  • May
    • Caution Advised to Develop in Carp Floodplain
    • Floodplain Development Allowed in Carp River Floodplain
    • Spills bill heads down the drain (Bill 133)
  • April
    • Thurso to Rockland Ferry
    • Flooding Time in the City of Ottawa
    • Fate of Rockland Thurso Ferry Proposal Uncertain
    • Nuclear waste dumping unchecked
  • March
    • Sierra Legal uncovers 2500 violations of Ontario’s water pollution laws
    • Use of Lead Sinkers to be Prohibited
    • Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner Recommends Changes
  • February
    • New Fishing Regulations Focus On Ecosystems
    • New Fishing Regulations Focus On Ecosystems
    • 2005 Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish Released
    • Cable-operated Ferry across Ottawa River approved
    • Chelsea wells high in bacteria and uranium
    • Ontario’s New Pollution Fines Weakened
  • January
    • Toxic runoff from Parliament Hill enters Ottawa River
    • Stop ‘outrageous’ nuclear waste dump and come clean on Chalk River, firm told
    • Adams Mine trashed once and for all
• Year: 2004
  • December
    • Canada losing pollution fight, report shows
    • Gov’t Initiatives to Reduce Toxic Substances in Wastewater Effluent
  • November
    • The Tragically Hip and Waterkeepers Team up for Canadian Tour
    • Waterkeepers receive CIELAP award
  • October
    • You Spill You Pay Law
    • City plans pipeline to carry toxins from dump
    • Hurricane Offers Lessons To Our Valley
    • McGuinty government to make polluters pay for spills
  • August
    • Ontario To Act on Industrial Pollution Report Recommendations
• Year: 2003
  • November
    • Raw sewage flows into Ontario waterways: Commissioner’s Report
  • September
    • Article in Le Droit reviewing the riverkeeper’s first year
  • April
    • Snow dump is obvious waste of prime land
  • March
    • ‘Invasive’ Asian carp sold alive in Ottawa fish markets
  • February
    • City of Ottawa unable to fix deadly water treatment problem
  • January
    • Lara’s voyage of discovery
• Year: 2002
  • November
    • The Ottawa River begins its renewal with a first full-time Riverkeeper

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