National Water Strategy
ACTION ALERT: Demand Indigenous Water Rights are protected in the Athabasca River!
Tell the Alberta and Canadian Governments to ensure Treaty rights are protected by ensuring Indigenous Baseline Water Flow needs are upheld within an Athabasca River water policy!
First! Sign the petition! http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41360.html
A Pan-Canadian Water Strategy
The need for a pan-Canadian water strategy in Canada has become extremely urgent. Across the nation, Canadians are recognizing that limits to this seemingly infinite resource exist. The evidence of these intense pressures is manifesting in a visibly changing climate, the degradation of our environment, health problems in Canadian communities, and the tensions surrounding the use of boundary waters with our neighbours to the south.
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Sierra Club's continued sponsorship of McMaster research
Submitted by Shaima Al-Khalili on Fri, 2012-05-11 14:29
Sierra Club Ontario is happy to announce the commencement of the second phase of McMaster Great Lakes research funded by the Sierra Club of Canada Foundation. The research examines the threats to coastal biodiversity due to changes in the hydrologic regime of Lakes Huron and Erie. The first report (see attachment below), summarizes their main year-one findings.
With continued Sierra Club sponsorship, the research team has just started a second season of tracking the Blanding's turtle, northern pike and as well as beginning a new project identifying muskellunge spawning and nursery habitat in Georgian Bay.
Sierra Club Ontario's letter to Ministers Jim Bradley and Michael Gravelle concerning Bill-55
Submitted by Shaima Al-Khalili on Thu, 2012-05-03 13:15Below is Sierra Club Ontario's letter to the Minister of Natural Resources and the Minister of Environment, expressing concern about Bill-55, a budget bill introduced by the Ontario government.
This bill proposes broad changes to a series of environmental and natural resource laws. Some of the changes are extremely worrisome as they reduce public and government oversight and broaden exemption powers. Even more troublesome is that these changes - because contained within a budget bill - circumvent the Environmental Bill of Rights (which required public consultation).
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April 26, 2012
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Sierra Club Ontario At Chicago Waterway System Meeting
Submitted by Andrew Holownych on Mon, 2011-10-31 11:24On October 25 Sierra Club Ontario’s Great Lakes Section was represented at the Toronto Public Meeting of Envisioning a Chicago Waterway System for the 21st Century (website). This is a joint project of the Great Lakes Commission and the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, sponsored by $2 Million in funding from six regional entities.... Read more »
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