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Take a look at our infographic to learn who you can organize your own shoreline clean up!

How do you feel about 1 000 000 m3 of radioactive waste being abandoned in an “engineered landfill” beside your Ottawa River?

Since 2014, Ottawa Riverkeeper has been working to have triclosan banned from Canadian products. Triclosan is used as an antimicrobial agent in a wide variety of consumer products in Canada

In November, our friends at Lake Ontario Waterkeeper submitted a letter to the government with five suggestions for improving the Navigation Protection Act. Take a look at them here!

Ottawa Riverkeeper recently co-signed a letter, along with dozens of other environmental agencies, urging the current federal government to make changes to the current Fisheries Act (which is currently under review).
In it, we made multiple suggestions for restoring protections that had been lost during the previous government, as well as proposed modern safeguards for the Act moving forward.