Friday, April 18, 2025
Lake Management Planning Begins on Pigeon Lake
Pigeon Lake has joined Balsam, Cameron, and Sturgeon lakes in a program that seeks to enhance the environmental health and economic sustainability of lakes across…
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Water Treatment Research Sparks Fuel Cell Innovation
This week, the Council of Ontario Universities announced that physical chemistry doctoral student Julia van Drunen has received one of five summer fellowships from the…
New Ways to Fund Stormwater Service
The City of Mississauga is looking for a new way to fund its stormwater management program. A stormwater financing study is underway, according to a recent…
The Case for Green Infrastructure in Ontario
A new report by the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition says that green infrastructure offers tangible, cost effective ways to meet the challenges of urbanization and climate change.…
Feds Announce First Nation Water Pilots in Ontario
Four First Nation communities will participate in the Canada-Ontario First Nations Pilot Initiative to Improve Drinking Water Quality. Through this joint initiative, the federal and…
Interview: Angus Toulouse
Water Canada spoke with Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse at this week’s First Nations Water Symposium in Niagara Falls. Here, he provides remarks on Bill…
2012 Green Toronto Award Finalists Announced
The City of Toronto and Green Living Enterprises have announced the finalists for the 2012 Green Toronto Awards. The City’s environmental awards of excellence recognize…
OCWA Lands $35M Operating Contract
The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) has been awarded a five-year contract to operate the water treatment and transmission systems of the two water systems…
Beamsville Biorention Project Wins ECO Award
Staff at Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation (MTO) have received the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario’s (ECO) 2011 Recognition Award for using two environmentally beneficial innovations: bioretention…
Friends of the Greenbelt Announce Water Grant Recipients
Water is the focus of a new round of grants announced this week by Ontario’s Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation. Five organizations have been awarded…
Trojan Acquires Norway’s Salsnes Filter
Salsnes Filter AS of Namsos, Norway will join the group of businesses owned by London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies. Salsnes Filter’s technology removes particles from municipal and…
Matrix Solutions and AquaResource Merge
Ontario’s AquaResource Inc. will become a division of Calgary-based Matrix Solutions Inc. effective January 1, 2012. The merger expands the geographic reach and industry base…
Ontario Too Slow: ECO’s Annual Report
Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner is worried that Ontario has lost momentum when it comes to the province’s pressing environmental issues. In his 2010/2011 Annual Report, titled…
Feds Announce $70M for St. Lawrence River
The feds announced a 15-year commitment to protect the St. Lawrence River this morning. The agreement, known as the St. Lawrence Action Plan 2011-2026, will continue…
Trojan Acquires OpenCEL
Trojan Technologies has acquired the business assets of OpenCEL of Glencoe, Illinois. OpenCEL is an environmental biotechnology company that offers a proprietary technology which significantly…
WCWC Calls for Advisory Council Members
The board of directors of the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) has approved the establishment of two advisory councils, the research advisory council (RAC) and…
SERA Forms Expert Panel
Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate (SERA) has formed its expert technical panel, which represents municipal, industry, community and environmental interests, to produce a voluntary standard…
Kent Announces Last Round for Lake Simcoe
Funds for Lake Simcoe continue to flow. This morning in Barrie, Ontario, Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that the feds will continue its support of…
STRABAG Inc. Wins $290M GTA Wastewater Contract
European construction company STRABAG Inc. has been awarded a new tunnelling contract to build a 15-kilometre wastewater tunnel in The Regional Municipality of York, in…
$40M Announced for Southern Ontario Water Consortium
FedDev Ontario has announced a contribution of nearly $20 million to help fund the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) through the Ontario Technology Development Program.…
WaterTAP Board Announced
Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation, Glen Murray, today announced the chair and board members of the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP). Nicholas Parker, co-founder…
Anaergia to Locate in Ontario
Ontario will host the new global centre for Anaergia Inc., a company that uses technology to produce biogas and natural gas energy from wastewater and…
Ontario Introduces Innovation Showcase Funding
Last week Ontario’s ministry of environment announced its $17-million Showcasing Water Innovation program, meant to to fund leading edge, innovative and cost-effective solutions for managing…
State of Emergency in Pikangikum
Chief Jonah Strang has declared a state of emergency for Pikangikum First Nation, a northwestern Ontario community with an on-reserve population of 2,400, no all-year…