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Come on out for a true northern experience! Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to paddle a beautiful and pristine river with never ending rapids. The river offers a range of white water: from big waves to creeking. At night, gather around the campfire, socialize with new and old friends and enjoy a fish fry dinner. The Kipawa Rally is an annual event to raise awareness and help ...
Join Ottawa Riverkeeper on June 19th at the Museum of Nature for our annual general meeting. There will be lively conversation, song, stunning photographs and a chance to learn how Riverkeeper is working with many partners and volunteers to make our rivers swimmable, drinkable and fishable. Everyone welcome.
Welcome to the 8th annual Miramichi Lodge Paddlequest.This fundraising event, planned for Sunday June 10, 2012 to celebrate Canadian Heritage Rivers, is organized by the Miramiachi Lodge Foundation to raise funds that will directly enhance the quality of life of the Lodge’s residents. Paddlequest is an organized flat water paddle (not a race), that will follow a route from the sandy ...
MEC Ottawa presents PADDLEFEST 2012 Paddlefest is an event intended to promote paddling within the Ottawa region, as well as to raise awareness for water safety and preserving the integrity of our rivers and lakes. The focus is on education and instruction, and building the paddling community by engaging new diverse communities and youth in our core activities. Come on down and meet your ...
Eight years of planning finally comes together for McColgan family Eight year ago, Don McColgan envisioned a plan to expand and modernize his Quyon Ferry operation. And this Friday, that project finally gets underway. “I would have never gotten into it had I known it would take this long,” McColgan states. There have been a few false starts for the project along the way, and hundreds ...
OTTAWA — Fisheries and Oceans Canada acknowledges its reputation and capacity to protect the nation’s water are at risk because of a “change agenda” that also could be overturned in court, the department’s minister, Keith Ashfield, said in a report tabled this month in Parliament. But the report suggested the department is considering “communications” ...
Canadians should worry about Bill C-38, Ottawa’s bid to gut the Environmental Assessment Act. Let’s not forget that there is a compelling reason for environmental assessments of industrial projects. Back in the days before environmental assessment laws, much unnecessary damage was done to the environment, to people, to the economy and to taxpayers. For example: ? Mines have ...
The federal government has confirmed what the rumour mill suspected: it shut down an arm’s length, independent advisory group because it didn’t like the advice it was getting on addressing climate change. Funding for the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) was cut in the last budget, giving the group just one year to live. Since 1988, it has been producing ...
Jim Cumming Male Wood Duck Brewery Creek Clean-Up Join Ottawa Riverkeeper and our Gatineau partners to help clean up Gatineau’s historic Brewery Creek. When: Saturday, May 12 from 9 am to noon. (Rain date May 19th) Where: We’ll meet at the Théâtre de l’Île at the corner of rue Montcalm and rue Wellington in Gatineau. We’ll be cleaning the first section of the creek this ...
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Ottawa Riverkeeper has moved to a new office. Many thanks to MEC for housing us for almost 5 years in our critical start up years. Our new address is 2-379 Danforth Avenue in Westboro, Ottawa. Our new phone number is 613-321-1120.
The Harper government is giving a wide range of new powers to cabinet ministers to decide the scope of environmental assessments, as it proceeds with an omnibus budget bill that overhauls the way Ottawa will review major resource projects. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has promoted the legislative changes as providing greater certainty to investors keen to develop Canada’s vast ...
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