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A one-day summit involving Ottawa Riverkeeper, the NCC, First Nations leaders and municipal staff from Ontario and Quebec is planned for Aug. 27 to discuss the health and the future of the Ottawa River. The Ottawa River Summit, to take place in the National Capital Region, will encourage participants to share information, experiences and successes on river-related issues. The agenda will ...
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 ...
A $252-million plan to stop sewage from spilling into the Ottawa River would install one or more huge storage facilities to catch the overflow whenever the city is drenched in rain. The recommended projects under the Ottawa River Action Plan are on paper. Now it’s a question of how the city will cover the $140 million needed to fully fund the plan over the next five years. The rest of the ...
A surface water testing program will continue in the Town of Arnprior in 2010, after results from 2009 testing provided valuable information to the municipality. Environmental engineering technologist Heather Gough presented local legislators with a detailed report at the Jan. 4 Committee of the Whole meeting. It was back in February 2009 that council first directed staff to undertake ...
When raw sewage spills into the Ottawa River, as it has on several occasions in recent years, it creates a yuck factor that gets the public’s attention. That’s a good thing, because it reminds people in the capital region just how important the river is, and visions of e-coli can help city officials sell a multi-million dollar solution that will ensure the healthy survival of ...
A new report from the Sierra Club of Canada is making some troubling statements about the health of the Ottawa River. In the report, Tritium on Tap, the Sierra Club of Canada says levels of tritium in the Ottawa River near AECL are five times higher than in water at other locations without any nearby nuclear plants. Ottawa River Keeper Meredith Brown says this is actually deemed acceptable under ...
The province’s environment commissioner is ordering the City of Ottawa to change the way it handles overflow sewage that spills into the Ottawa River. So far, more than one billion litres of sewage has spilled into the Ottawa River this year. A report issued by Ontario Environment Commissioner Gord Miller says the city must move forward with one of three options to help fix the ...
More than 1,500 people are said to have signed a petition calling for a change in the government’s plans for Hawkesbury’s CIP lagoons. René Berthiaume, who is founder and president of the Corporation de la Bordure Riveraine, told the Review that he expects the number could reach 2,500 in the next weeks. As of press time, the CBRH’s online petition was still reporting 29 ...
Mayor Ivan Court will have his chance today to re-open the debate on banning bottled water in city-owned buildings. Court has long argued a ban would promote the city’s own water system, while encouraging consumers to spend less on plastic bottles that sometimes end up in landfills. The mayor and Meera Karunananthan, a water campaigner with the Council of Canadians, are scheduled to ...
Greenhouse gas emissions are making our world warmer and sometimes drier, so what do we propose in response? Cut the emissions? Maybe a bit, someday, but that’s hard to do — so why not try something easier and quicker? Just look at what the Montreal Economic Institute is proposing. This group of economists, business leaders and former federal and provincial politicians suggests in ...
A Montreal think-tank has proposed a massive scheme to bring more water and electric power to Montreal: Dam three rivers near James Bay, and pump their water overland to drain it all down the Ottawa River. The scheme would send an extra 800 cubic metres of water per second through Ottawa — 40 per cent more than the year’s average flow rate. It would flood 1,100 square kilometres of ...
Ottawa’s plan to fix its ongoing sewage problems now has the support of Ontario’s environment commissioner. After days of touring facilities and assessing the situation, Gord Miller said Tuesday that the city is on the right track, and if implemented correctly, sewage spills into the Ottawa River should be a thing of the past within three years. “No fatal flaws have been ...
WATCH VIDEO More than 100 people, including a few Hawkesbury councillors, attended a public meeting on September 14 hosted by the Corporation de la Bordure Riveraine de Hawkesbury. (CBRH) CBRH Chair René Berthiaume was joined by environmentalist Meredith Brown of the Ottawa River Keepers as well as John Keyuk from the LMMK company. The group reiterated its claims that the Ontario ...
For decades, the Town of Hawkesbury has lived with the fact that its downtown waterfront was a dump for a paper mill, one permitted by the Ontario government. Now the province is pushing ahead to clean up some of that waterfront, but a community group says the plan falls far short. Hawkesbury, on the Ottawa River, was a popular place to build a mill, with 22 of them operating in the early ...
Jamie Pistilli, KAYAK ANGLER Regional Editor for Eastern Canada, won the Ottawa Riverkeeper Classic, hosted by Ottawa-based retailer Trailhead. Pistilli beat out the other 29 anglers with this 30-inch northern pike. The largest bass was only 14.5 inches. More info about this annual tournament at www.trailhead.ca. Ottawa River Keeper Tournament, Jamie Pistilli Pike
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