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Food Water FirstDrinking Water Source Protection Draft - Public Consultation Mar 19 - May 1, 2012
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Public Consultation on the CTC Draft Proposed Source Protection Plan
The CTC Source Protection Committee is making the Draft Proposed Source Protection Plan available for public consultation and comment. This is the first of two rounds of public consultation before the plan is submitted for approval to the Minister of Environment on August 20, 2012. From March 19 to May 1, 2012 the Draft Proposed Source Protection Plan will be available for viewing online and in paper copy at selected library branches and conservation authority offices throughout the CTC. |
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For full details, please go to : http://www.ctcswp.ca/News/public-consultation-spring-2012.html
Maude Barlow Warns of Struggles Ahead - Assault on Our Resources
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- Published on Monday, 12 March 2012 16:00
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Canadians should prepare for an unprecedented assault on our resources, Maude Barlow warned on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
“There’s a free-for-all coming, I feel it,” the chair of the Council of Canadians told an audience of 200 at Georgian College in Barrie.
“What is coming is an assault on every tree in our country, on every fish, on every mineral and every fresh-water source,” she said.
The reason: Europe and China, having exhausted their own resources are in tight competition to lock down access to raw resources elsewhere in the world.
David Versus Goliath
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- Published on Friday, 09 March 2012 15:35
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Three separate communities oppose quarry applications
http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3496180
By Kristen Smith
Posted March 9, 2012, in "The Enterprise-Bulletin"
Potatoes or rocks: an urgent question north of Toronto
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 March 2012 15:43
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By Matthew Kellway
Posted in "Beach Metro Community News", March 7, 2012
http://www.beachmetro.com/2012/03/07/potatoes-rocks-urgent-question-north-toronto/
How the Walk to Stop the Mega-Quarry put Melancthon on the map
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 13:35
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The Mega-Quarry has really touched a nerve up here because people know their headwaters are being challenged” argues Michael Sacco, a Trent Indigenous Studies PhD. Student.Sacco was one of the organizers of a five-day 125km walk in late April 2011 to stop the proposed “Mega-quarry” planned for Melancthon Township
By Zach Ruiter, February 27, 2012
Posted in "Arthur", The Peterborough and Trent University Press