Ontario Clean Air Foundation
Go Solar
The Clean Air Foundation is launching Go Solar,
a program to help Ontarians reach the McGuinty government's goal of 100,000
solar roofs. Go Solar provides people with the information they need to
install solar energy systems to heat water or generate electricity and
highlights new government incentives
Lyme disease confirmed
The first human case of Lyme disease – passed on by deer ticks – has hit the Thunder Bay district.
The first case of the disease was confirmed and reported to the Thunder Bay District Health Unit by the patient‘s doctor, health unit spokeswoman Laura Craig.
Northern cities bypassed by 'species at risk' hearings
Ontario government excludes Northern communities from 'species at risk' hearings
- "The Ontario government is intent on appearing to do the right thing for political gain when it comes to its "species at risk" act, but it clearly has not been listening to those who stand to lose the most from it."
That statement from the Ontario vice-president of Canada's largest forestry union, Cec Makowski.
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It's official: Manitoba town gives plastic bags the boot
Will Toronto be next?
It's been talked about for weeks and on Monday the northern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids became the first municipality in Canada to ban plastic shopping bags.
The new bylaw prevents retailers from selling or distributing the single-use bags. Ignoring the ban could result in a $1,000-a-day fine. In anticipation, officials have been handing out cloth shopping bags to residents..
Toronto, works committee chair Glenn De Baeremaker said last week that he'd like to see the number of plastic bags in the city's landfill sites cut by 80 to 90 per cent. Ideally, he said, they shouldn't be manufactured in the first place.
"A lot of jurisdictions in the world, including places in Africa and India, already ban plastic bags," he said.
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Chemicals Pollute Ontario’s Political Leaders
September 7, 2007
Premier Dalton McGuinty, Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory and NDP Leader Howard Hampton tested for toxic chemicals
Toronto, Ontario – Test results reveal that three Ontario political leaders are contaminated with pollutants found in the environment and in everyday products, according to a report released today by Environmental Defence. For the first time in Canada, Environmental Defence tested for bisphenol A (found in hard plastic bottles and tin can linings), a hormone disruptor that is under review by the federal government. more info...>
Surface temperatures on Lake Superior up 4.5 degrees since 1979
• Warmer winters mean less ice cover which means more warming
• Levels dropping as Superior loses water to winter evaporation
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Ontario Air Quality
With summer, comes air Quality concerns, for us in the North we have fewer concerns, but for some people even a one or two point increase can cause concern.
Lake Superior is Changing
MARQUETTE, Mich. — As the research boat bobs up and down on grey, choppy Lake Superior, Michigan Tech University chemist Noel Urban and two students drop a metal cylinder over the side to retrieve a water sample from the bottom.
They are measuring carbon dioxide content — an unspectacular statistic by itself, yet an important piece of a highly complex puzzle.
“It helps us develop a model that can say what's going to happen as the lake warms up,” Mr. Urban says.
Plenty of people are wondering the same thing.
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