From: Northwatch Federal Report is Flawed – Ontario Must Take Action QUEENS PARK, ON – Calling the federal review report issued last week on a proposal to bury nuclear waste beside Lake Huron “deeply flawed”, one hundred public interest groups have issued an “Open Letter to the [Read more]
View the slideshow at: http://infosuperior.com and decide for yourself if progress has been made to improve environmental conditions in Nipigon Bay. Make your opinion known at the Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan (RAP, or cleanup plan) open house on May 7th. The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at [Read more]
TERRACE BAY, ON – The Grade 1/2 class of St. Martin School exhibited their environmental awareness, ensuring that they reduced their ecological footprint on our Earth and emerged as the winning class of the waste free lunch challenge. The Grade 8 class created a grass roots project with the [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – The Public Advisory Committee (PAC) to the Thunder Bay Remedial Action Plan, or harbour cleanup plan, will meet at 7 p.m. on March 11th at the Balmoral Street Centre on the Lakehead University campus (Room: HS 1029). The agenda and previous minutes will be published once [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Thunder Bay/Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan Coordinator Jim Bailey (Lakehead University) reminds interested Northwestern Ontario residents that the next Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan Public Advisory Committee meeting will be held: Wednesday, February 18th at 7pm [Read more]
ESPANOLA, ON – For the past seven years, students and staff from Espanola’s École secondaire catholique Franco-Ouest have been engaged in efforts to rehabilitate the community’s creek, which has a small natural population of brook trout. Their focus is on improving physical conditions in [Read more]
We are often told not to put all our eggs in one basket and not to count our chickens until they hatch. Someone should have reminded the federal government about those poultry related maxims as they set out to spend a surplus based on assumptions which included oil trading at a high price. Now [Read more]
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry seeks the public’s help in identifying the individuals responsible for setting gill nets that were left unattended in Goulais Bay on Lake Superior in November and December 2014. Several gill nets set off the southern shore of Goulais Bay and left [Read more]
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has issued a Public Notice announcing the Minister of the Environment’s decision regarding the environmental assessment of the Marathon Mine Platinum Groups and Copper Mine project. The copy of the Public Notice is available at: PN: [Read more]
A New Era of Cleaner Air in Ontario Ontario is now home to North America’s largest power plant fuelled completely by biomass. The Atikokan Generating Station conversion is complete and the station is now generating electricity and helping meet local power needs in northwestern Ontario. [Read more]
TERRACE BAY, ON – Chilly conditions couldn’t keep the visitors away as Terrace Bay received an excellent turnout for its annual Lake Superior Day celebration July 20th! The Township partnered with Parks Canada and EcoSuperior to hold a volunteer beach cleanup and offer free boat [Read more]
*Susan Bryan, Nature Reserves Committee Chair spoke to OntarioNewsNorth.com in greater detail about the importance of this parcel and some of the unique flora and fauna that live within it, and much more (including photos, map, etc) at www.youtube.com/OntarioNewsNorth Thunder Bay Field Naturalists [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – World Earth Day, April 22, and of course the students and staff at MPS celebrated with their typical exuberance! Intermediate students became leaders for the afternoon and taking the primary students under their wing to do ‘earthy’ things. All of [Read more]
BILLINGS, MT — (Marketwired) — STILLWATER MINING COMPANY (NYSE: SWC) (TSX: SWC.U)(the “Company”) today announced that Stillwater Canada Inc has requested that the joint review panel suspend the Marathon project environmental assessment and panel hearings until further [Read more]
