London Free Press

London police chief outlines new protocol for vetting international trips

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London’s police chief defended the need for international training missions while outlining his new procedure for vetting trips abroad. Chief Thai Truong briefed the city’s police services board on the new framework for vetting and approving trips by police employees outside Canada for training and conferences. “If we’re trying to make sure that this community […]

Owen Sound Sun Times

Students and seniors plan, plant and celebrate ‘food forest’

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Wiarton has its own “food forest” alongside its community garden now.  The community garden’s raised beds are used to grow annual fruits and vegetables. The food forest has perennials including elderberries, currents, pears, hazel nuts, echinacea and mint, wild strawberry, rhubarb and lemony seedless sorel.  Like produce from the raised beds, the food forest’s production […]

Grey County’s green plans endorsed by council, with some hesitancy

Grey County council passed its Going Green in Grey plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last year and Thursday it got an update on goals in the plan. Rebecca Danard, the manager of climate change initiatives for the county, gave the update to the plan, which councillors re-affirmed in a vote, with some expressing concerns […]

Hydrogen Optimized simulates variable winds for African project

Hydrogen Optimized announced it has successfully demonstrated in Owen Sound that its RuggedCell hydrogen production system could be powered by the variable winds found in the west African country of Mauritania. That’s where renewable energy developer CWP Global is exploring generating green hydrogen at its planned 30 gigawatt AMAN green hydrogen project. The company is […]

Hydrogen Optimized hoping for buy-Canadian green tech policy

Hydrogen Optimized president Andrew Stuart wonders if Canadian policymakers are thinking big enough to really leverage green-energy potential for economic growth. Are they aiming to develop a homegrown hydrogen-production industry or will people who utilize new federal tax credits use them buy foreign-made technology? And does the government appreciate the potential for exporting that technology? […]

Company assembling giant battery-powered vehicles in Owen Sound

The president of a company which is assembling giant prototype battery-powered subway vehicles in Owen Sound sees growth ahead as he rides a green wave to replace fossil fuel-powered vehicles and service them. Mike Buller’s company, Nuts and Volts Inc., is hiring and within a year will have 20 shop employees, where currently there are […]

Greens were in fourth place in BGOS before final results in

As late results came in, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Green provincial candidate Danielle Valiquette was in fourth place on election night. “It’s always tough, we were certainly hoping to hit that 10 per cent mark,” she said. “We worked really hard, we didn’t leave anything on the table.” Last she looked, she had about nine per cent […]