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Items tagged: Lake Winnipeg
Items Found: 20
December 5, 2011 - 8:26 am
We need to be honest with ourselves. What we have created is the largest inland freshwater dead zone in the world. At 15,000 square kilometres in area, algal blooms in Lake Winnipeg are now larger than the record 8,500-square-mile area of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. We need to admit that...
Categories: Blog
October 17, 2011 - 1:17 pm
The federal government has announced over $398,000 in federal funding for nine new community projects supported under the fifth round of the Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund.
Turtle Mountain Conservation District
Pembina and Long River Riparian Enhancement Program, $20,000
Centre for Indigenous...
Categories: News, Western Canada
June 3, 2011 - 9:13 am
The Government of Manitoba will take new action to protect the province’s water and save Lake Winnipeg, Premier Greg Selinger announced yesterday.
“The stakes are too high and the time to take action is now,” said Selinger. “Lake Winnipeg is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world...
Categories: News, Western Canada
May 31, 2011 - 9:38 am
The Government of Manitoba will take the steps necessary to save Lake Winnipeg, Premier Greg Selinger announced today, concluding Dr. Peter Leavitt's five-year study of the lake.
Leavitt's study of Lake Winnipeg, commissioned by the province, is a comprehensive report that establishes a benchmark...
Categories: News, Western Canada
April 27, 2011 - 11:00 am
The Manitoba government is supporting a $100,000 pilot project to preserve and build up Victoria beach, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced today.
Through a grant to the Rural Municipality of Victoria Beach, the funding will help build up the beach using a process called aggradation...
Categories: News, Western Canada
March 28, 2011 - 1:13 pm
“Anybody who thinks this is a run-of-the-mill problem is wrong,” says John Fjeldsted, executive director of the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association (MEIA). “Make no mistake—this is a world-class problem. Maybe we should think of a world-class solution.”
He’s referring to Lake...
Categories: Features
January 27, 2011 - 10:37 am
Manitoba Hydro has committed more than $1.35 million over six years to help fund further research into ongoing water quality and biological changes in Lake Winnipeg.
The first installment of the $1.35 million includes $226,000 for the current year ending March 31 and equivalent funding for the next...
Categories: News, Western Canada
December 8, 2010 - 9:04 am
The appointment of Dr. David Lobb as Manitoba's first-ever research chair in watershed systems is a significant step in developing new, innovative ways to clean up Lake Winnipeg, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick and Dr. Digvir Jayas, University of Manitoba vice-president (research), announced...
Categories: News, Western Canada
December 7, 2010 - 9:25 am
Environment Canada is not adequately monitoring Canada’s fresh water resources, says Scott Vaughan, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, in his report tabled today in the House of Commons.
“Environment Canada has been running the federal government’s water monitoring...
Categories: National, News
November 30, 2010 - 12:38 pm
A pilot project at Netley-Libau Marsh, supported by $150,000 in provincial funding, will explore ways of preventing pollutants from getting into Lake Winnipeg while at the same time reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, Manitoba's Premier Greg Selinger announced today.
In partnership with the International...
Categories: News, Western Canada
January - February 2012
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