Saturday, May 17, 2025
Expanding Scope of Water Treatment Plant Causes Council Concern
Cold Lake, Alberta’s Council in its most recent meeting has discussed a number of obstacles to the expansion of the area’s water treatment plant. Council…
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Officials Pen Letter of Protest Over Great Lakes Nuclear Waste Storage
Over one hundred mayors and other elected officials have written a letter to Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, urging her government not…
Acceptable Lead Concentration in Water Systems at Prince George Public Facilities
The City of Prince George, British Columbia has conducted a review of drinking water quality at civic facilities and found it to be safe for…
Regina to Increase Water Rates to Support Capital Project Investment
Regina has announced an overall 2 per cent utility rate increase, effective January 1st, 2018, pending council approval later in December. The increase would support…
Contract Awarded for Wastewater Pumps at Woodward Pumping Station
Mississauga-based KSB Pumps Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply twelve large wastewater pumps for the Woodward Avenue Main Pumping Station in Hamilton, Ontario.…
Supreme Court Backs Indigenous Rights in Dispute Over Peel Watershed
Yukon First Nations and environmental groups have won a landmark Supreme Court case. The judgment released on Friday upholds a land use plan that protects…
Great Lakes Protection Initiative Receives $45M from Federal Government
The federal government has announced $44.84 million for the Great Lakes Protection Initiative, which is part of the $70.5 million of new funding allocated for freshwater protection in…
Report on Source Water Protection, Nutrient Management in Hullcar Valley
A team led by Oliver M. Brandes, co-director of the POLIS project on ecological governance at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies, has…
Funding Announced for National Climate and Asset Management Network
The Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) have announced 19 communities that will participate in the next two-year cycle of the…
Man. Introduces Sustainable Watersheds Act
Yesterday, Manitoba announced legislation that would improve the health of lakes and waterways throughout the province by instituting a stronger watershed management regime through the…
P.E.I. Legislature Debates Water Act for the First Time
After more than two years of consultation with Islanders, the new Water Act came up for debate in the Legislative Assembly on November 29th. The historic act is…
Green Roof Project Highlights Municipal, Real Estate, Grassroots Cooperation
Candiac, Québec has partnered with a real estate developer and a local, urban agriculture company for the ambitious Jardins Solaire, a green roof project that aims…
Clearford Acquires Koester Canada for $7.8M
Clearford Water Systems Inc. has announced the acquisition of Koester Canada Inc., an Ontario-based subsidiary of Koester Associates, Inc., for $7.8 million. Koester Canada’s two divisions, the…
Ostara Nutrient Technologies Makes List of Cleantech Export Stars
As part of Export Development Canada’s (EDC) Cleantech Export Week, EDC has announced its first Cleantech Export Stars, the top three Canadian companies that have…
Québec Expands Total Area of Protected Land and Freshwater
Yesterday afternoon, Québec announced its intention to create a vast protected area that will be 21 times larger than the Island of Montréal, increasing its…
Study on Cranberry Farming Nutrient Runoff
Cranberry farming is big business in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, and B.C.. In fact, Canada is the second-largest producer of this tart red fruit in the world.…
Assessment of Progress on Canada-US Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
In its First Triennial Assessment of Progress under the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the International Joint Commission (IJC) has called on Canada and…
CBC Reduces Internal Water Consumption in 2017
Canada’s public radio corporation, CBC/Radio-Canada, has completed an Environmental Performance report that shows an enterprise-wide decrease in water consumption. CBC/Radio-Canada’s latest environmental performance report is…
For Canada 150, More Than 150,00 Acres of Land and Water Impacted
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) has announced that in 2017 it has affected more than 150,000 acres of land and water across Canada to celebrate Canada…
Sustainable Water Management Objectives in Saanich Agri Security Plan
The District of Saanich, B.C. has invited community members to provide feedback on the draft Saanich Agriculture and Food Security Plan. The plan provides a…
Canada Invests in Cyanobacteria Detection in Northern Ontario Waterways
The federal government has announced that it will invest $1 million in monitoring northern waterways for cyanobacteria. Northern Ontario families will benefit from improved detection…
Waterlution Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Youth Work
On November 24th, Waterlution’s Youth Advisory Board (YAB) launched a crowdfunding campaign for its Great Water Challenge (GWC) program, which features, Canada’s Great Water Adventure,…
Chiefs of Ontario and Ont. Legislature Address Water Resources
Following the fourth annual Chiefs of Ontario Leaders in the Legislature event in Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne and Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day released a…
Nanaimo to Overhaul Capital Project Management After Deloitte Review
Nanaimo, B.C. has taken measures to oversee and change its project management practices following the November 20th release of a Deloitte Report on capital project…