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Perhaps the biggest, most immediate problem with Canada’s water infrastructure is buried, literally, under our cities and towns. The thousands of kilometres of underground pipes that move water from treatment plants to our taps is leaking — spewing 13% to 30% of clean, drinkable water into the ground. At the same time, waste water and storm water systems can’t keep up and are ...
The City of Ottawa will plant 602 new butternut trees and 100 new ginseng plants to compensate for the ones being ripped up by the Terry Fox Drive extension, according to a proposed agreement with the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources. The agreement, recently posted for public comment on the province’s Environmental Registry website, will allow the city to cut down 20 viable, ...
One of the most detailed investigations ever conducted in Canada into the fate of road salt has found that it is polluting groundwater and causing some streams during winter thaws to have salinity levels just under those found in the ocean. The elevated salt readings were detected in Pickering, where researchers from the University of Toronto have been studying how the salt spread on highways, ...
Even experienced ice fishermen can plunge through ice on the Ottawa River because there are no reliable maps showing the ice thickness, strength and possible hot spots, according to experts who know the river. Jocelyn Bélanger was such an experienced riverman, and he died taking a chance in trying to drag a fishing hut off the river on Monday evening when his truck broke through and took him ...
The Sierra Club Canada plans to start a national campaign this week attempting to stop the extension of Terry Fox Drive through the sensitive wetland habitat of the threatened Blanding’s turtle. John Bennett, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, said the club will use its network to reach thousands of environmentally minded citizens, asking them to put pressure on municipal, ...
The provincial government is contemplating creating a new layer of management for local water and sewage systems, a move that would likely result in an increase in consumers’ bills of $40 to $50 a month. David Caplan, the former cabinet minister who proposed the changes in a recent private member’s bill, says Ontario’s aging water pipes need replacing and the creation of an ...
Rain and melting snow late last week caused sewer overflows of more than 15 million litres of mixed raw sewage, rain and snowmelt into the Ottawa River, according to city staff. In a memo, Dixon Weir, the city’s general manager of environmental services, informed councillors of the overflows on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Ministry of the Environment’s spills centre, the ...
On February 24th Ottawa City Council approved a 5-year, $250 million plan to reduce discharges of raw sewage into the Ottawa River. The approved plan (“Option B”) was one of three options being considered by the City and was the preferred option selected by Ottawa Riverkeeper. Thanks to a strong public voice and participation on the issue, “Option B” was approved at the ...
An environmental lobby group has formally begun legal action to force the federal government to abide by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in stimulus projects funded by Ottawa. The case was initially begun last spring in response to the federal government’s decision to no longer require environmental assessments for the big stimulus projects announced in last year’s ...
Gatineau Councillor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin is using his Facebook site to advocate fluoridation of the city’s water supply — while many of his colleagues reject the idea despite widespread evidence that it prevents tooth decay. Pedneaud-Jobin, who represents Buckingham, was a spokesman for the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de l’Outaouais, West Quebec’s ...
RSS(Really Simple Syndication) feeds are used to share web content with users and websites. For users, syndication makes keeping up with multiple news sites much easier, and for websites, it makes it easy to create links with other sites providing relavant content. Wikipedia has some good information about syndication in general, and RSS feeds.