Tag: Municipalities
Groundwater: Who’s in charge? | Great Lakes Now
In the early 2000s a movement to address the plight of the heavily polluted and long neglected Great Lakes started to gain traction.
The goal was to bring the gravitas of the federal government to the issue and in 2004 President George W. Bush signed an executive order declaring the lakes a “national treasure.” An interagency task force was established to bring together the disparate efforts of various federal programs who had been working independently on Great Lakes issues.
Group makes push for more nonmarket affordable housing in Owen Sound
An organization with a priority of seeing more affordable housing available in the area has asked for Owen Sound’s support as it works to tackle the issue. Representatives of the Institute of Southern Georgian Bay and their Owen Sound table on community housing were at city council on Monday where they outlined the innovative ways being […]
Owen Sound agrees to explore police partnership with West Grey
Owen Sound council has agreed to explore a policing partnership with West Grey. At its meeting on Monday, council endorsed the exploration and potential implementation of a joint municipal police service with the Municipality of West Grey. The city manager was directed to initiate discussions with representatives of West Grey, The West Grey police services […]
18 days: Critics fear major changes to London’s growth blueprint were rushed
Some see it as a sweeping, hurried change that would put London’s growth blueprint on steroids and change the fabric of city neighbourhoods.
After 10 million pieces of beach trash, Chicago advocates push for sustainable packaging | Great Lakes Now
Plastic is the dominant source of beach trash in the Great Lakes region.
That’s the finding by the Chicago-based non-profit Alliance for the Great Lakes in a recently released report that analyzed beach litter picked up by its volunteers over the past 20 years.
“Twenty years of data collected by volunteers shows that 86% of the trash was either fully or partially made from plastic,” the Alliance said in a press release.