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Video: How scientists are projecting future climate change

Rex Turgano | February 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

This video explores how the addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by human beings, has upset a natural balance between ocean, land and atmosphere that has been in place for thousands of years.

Plastic Pollution in our Oceans

Jen | April 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

You have probably heard about the garbage patches that our in our oceans but may not know the exactly what it looks like. I however do. I have sailed through 2 of them. I remember being amazed at the sudden onslaught of garbage and wondered if a local fishing boat was dumping into the ocean. I [...]

Quebec’s asbestos industry faces off against health experts

Rex Turgano | November 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

Medical experts working for the Quebec government’s National Public Health Institute (INSPQ) are “a little gang of Talibans”, charges Bernard Coulombe, president of the Jeffrey asbestos mine.

Toxics bill ignores Ontario’s biggest reported water polluters

Rex Turgano | May 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

Toronto – Sewage treatments plants are the Top 10 Water Polluters in Ontario, and are the largest reported releasers of mercury and lead into the province’s lakes, streams, and rivers, according to an analysis released yesterday by Environmental Defence. The analysis comes as a legislative committee at Queen’s Park reviews the government’s proposed Toxics Reduction [...]

Ontario joins the movement to make lawns and gardens green

Rex Turgano | March 21, 2009 | 0 Comments

Here’s your weekly Science Matters column from the David Suzuki Foundation: March 19, 2009 – The discovery by Swiss chemist Paul Mueller in 1939 that DDT kills insect “pests” was hailed as a breakthrough. Dr. Mueller went on to win a Nobel Prize in 1948 for his work, and DDT became the most widely used [...]

Louisiana Pacific Seeks to Decommission Pollution Abatement Equipment

Rex Turgano | March 2, 2009 | 0 Comments

Comment: By Don Sullivan, Executive Director of the Boreal Forest Network Back in the 1990s when Louisiana Pacific (LP) wanted to construct a new Oriented Strand Board (OSB) plant near Swan River MB., citizens raised legitimate concerns about Louisiana Pacific’s past track record in the United States and the type and amount of toxic chemicals [...]

Chalk River Reactor Pollutes Ottawa River

Rex Turgano | February 1, 2009 | 2 Comments

Media release from Sierra Coalition Canada: January 29, 2009 – Environmental groups are calling for a public investigation including full disclosure of the details surrounding recent nuclear accidents at AECL’s Chalk River Labs. The Canadian Nuclear and Safety Commission (CNSC) and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) failed to inform the public about a December [...]

Hazardous waste rules not enforced, auditor says

Rex Turgano | December 13, 2007 | 0 Comments

A “significant” amount of toxic and radioactive waste is likely being dumped illegally in Ontario because the province isn’t keeping a close enough watch on generators of hazardous waste, Ontario’s auditor general said today. Jim McCarter told The Canadian Press that 900 hazardous waste generators haven’t officially reported any dumping in three years, but ministry [...]

Cutting car emissions saves lives: T.O. report

Rex Turgano | November 3, 2007 | 0 Comments

A new study on the health effects of air pollution from traffic in Toronto says a 30 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions could save nearly 200 lives a year and $1 billion in health costs. The Toronto Public Health report, to be released Monday, also estimates that “mortality-related” costs associated with traffic pollution in [...]

Governments set to announce tar ponds cleanup plan

Fraser Los | January 28, 2007 | 0 Comments

Provincial and federal officials were expected to release a long-awaited cleanup plan Sunday for one of Canada’s most contaminated sites, in Sydney, N.S. Read the full article…

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Fundraising Ideas, Summer Camp, Organic Waste, Fake Anti-Wind Protesters – GCNews #813

813: 8 April 2013 – Published by Green Communities Canada RAIN! See Water Canada Magazine article about how user fees and credit system helps Kitchener pay for its municipal stormwater system. Rain barrels, rain gardens, prmeable pavers (as well as cisterns and infiltration galleries) qualify for stormwater credits … RAIN! featured in insert … REEP Green Solutions is coordinating aregion-wide rain barrel [...]

Rex Turgano | April 17, 2013 | 0 Comments

Rapid transit key to unlocking potential of UBC/Broadway corridor: study

A new report from the City of Vancouver and UBC recommends “unlocking economic potential” with a rail-based rapid transit system to serve the rapidly growing region.

Fraser Los | March 5, 2013

Recognizing local environmental heroes

Earth Day Canada, in partnership with Mill Street Brewery and the RBC Foundation, is looking for Canada’s 2013 Hometown Heroes.

Fraser Los | February 16, 2013 | 0 Comments

Tag: pollution

Video: How scientists are projecting future climate change

Plastic Pollution in our Oceans

Quebec’s asbestos industry faces off against health experts

Toxics bill ignores Ontario’s biggest reported water polluters

Ontario joins the movement to make lawns and gardens green

Louisiana Pacific Seeks to Decommission Pollution Abatement Equipment

Chalk River Reactor Pollutes Ottawa River

Hazardous waste rules not enforced, auditor says

Cutting car emissions saves lives: T.O. report

Governments set to announce tar ponds cleanup plan

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