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Bill C-73, Nature Accountability Act and Nature Strategy

New updated content: 2024-09-24 15:44:20 Stephen gave an update on the tabling of Bill C-73 in the House of Commons in June. This bill will likely be debated in the fall session, which will provide an opportunity to comment. The accountability framework and strategy would be key elements in meeting the 30% by 2030 nature conservation target adopted in COP 15. The strategy also includes a target for the restoration

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Ottawa River Watershed Study Report

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:19 We wrote indicating our interest and seeing if there was anything we could do to contribute. There will be an open house held this Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. updated content: 2018-10-29 14:33:13 The Environment Canada team leading the ORWS issued its first report, with a deadline for comments submission by October 31. This led to a very good discussion by members, with

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Letter re: Ottawa River Watershed Study

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:19 We wrote indicating our interest and seeing if there was anything we could do to contribute. There will be an open house held this Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Disarming the Fisheries Act: Bill C-45 (2007)

May 29, 2007 From the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper web site (and thanks to Meg Sears for signaling it), dated May 28, 2007. In several major fights for the protection of greenspace in Ottawa, the federal Fisheries Act has played and continues to play a major role — Leitrim Wetland and the Carp River Floodplain among them: One of Canada’s most powerful and precious environmental protections could be disarmed during a

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Economic value of “natural” capital — a reflection

August 2015 Al Crosby writes: One of the points that we failed to get across to the city, and by extension CLC, was the fact that we are not only talking about specific green goals and objectives of future developments. We should have stressed the point that there is an economic value to retaining natural habitat. Developers seem to be destroying the “natural” capital that is provided to us for

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NCC tags $175,000 for land survey

The Ottawa Citizen, Jun 19, 2007. pg. C.1 NCC tags $175,000 for land survey; Study intended to identify property, not targets: director by Mohammed Adam (Copyright The Ottawa Citizen 2007) The National Capital Commission is launching a major $175,000 study of federal land holdings in the nation’s capital, including such landmarks as the Central Experimental Farm and Leamy Lake Park, to determine how they fit into the continuing development and

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Say it with pictures

May 12, 2012 Here are three pictures, courtesy of the National Capital Commission, from a presentation staff made to senior management in the fall of 2010. The street, “Pickford”, may not be local. (Pickford Drive in Kanata has a different street sign.) How would you like to have this happen to your street?  

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Review of federal environmental legislation

The federal government has created an Expert Panel to review its environmental assessment processes.  Go here for more information. David McNicoll attended a workshop on November 8, 2016. On December 22, the Greenspace Alliance made a submission to the Panel.  It argued that, if an environmental assessment amounts to assembling short-term data assembled to support a proponent’s proposal then this is “little more than a land delivery system, unmoored from

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Memorial to the victims of communism

22 February 2015 This is stretching the terms of our mandate a bit but a majority of the Board felt it was important and appropriate to join the chorus of comments protesting the dedication of a prime area on Parliament Hill to a memorial to the victims of communism.  Here is our letter. Local heritage architect Barry Padolsky was out of the gate first, with an open letter to the Prime

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NCC Urban Lands Plan approved

(posted to the GA List, 20 May 2015) As usual, the NCC has worked in its mysterious ways. Just over a year ago [in April 2014], on a tight deadline following a public meeting, one was asked to send in comments on a draft Capital Urban Lands Master Plan, its numerous Appendices and a draft NCC Policy for Parkways. Silence followed. Then, at its meeting of April 22, 2015, the

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