GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for Ontario http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-02-09T07:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-02-08T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2438357 About 140 acres of farmland just west of Peterborough, Ontario will be transformed into a $45-million solar farm project capable of producing renewable energy for about 1,500 homes each year. text/html 2010-02-04T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.northernnews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2385197 Kirkland Lake has received $32 million in federal and provincial funding to construct a new wastewater treatment plant. The new facility will enable Kirkland Lake to meet existing wastewater requirements and will provide a more modern and upgraded system. text/html 2010-02-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ambitious-plans-cold-reality/article1451153/ Expansion plans at the Port of Montreal in Quèbec - a key gateway for cargo shipments for Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest - will have to be scaled back as a result of the global economic slowdown. text/html 2010-02-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/716327 After nearly a century of relying on the steel industry, the Hamilton Port Authority of Hamilton, Ont., is launching an ambitious plan to change the nature of its business. The plan will see $500 million invested in new facilities over the next decade. text/html 2010-02-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2300170 The St. Lawrence River Institute is seeking nominations for its annual River Award, established in 2009 to recognize and encourage environmental stewardship and responsibility in the community. text/html 2010-02-01T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/02/01/12691996.html The asian carp entering the Great Lakes may pose "a potential catastrophe" for the commercial and charter fishing industry and related businesses that pump more than $100 million a year into the Ontario economy. text/html 2010-01-28T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.tbnewswatch.com/News/Default.aspx?cid=79407 Parks Canada is mapping out a marine conservation area along the North Shore of Lake Superior; they are working on plans to establish a National Marine Conservation Area in a 10,000-square kilometre area. text/html 2010-01-27T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/article/146966 The Ontario provincial government is currently reviewing the environmental assessment on plans to expand the pipe that takes sewage from York Region to a Pickering water treatment plant before going into Lake Ontario. text/html 2010-01-27T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/543719--supermarket-charged-for-carrying-live-bighead-carp Ontario's natural resources ministry remains watchful after the second Scarborough supermarket in a year was fined for possessing live bighead carp. It is illegal to sell or have a live bighead because of the extreme damage the species could do to the ecology of Lake Ontario and other waterways. text/html 2010-01-27T08:05:50-04:00 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=42329 A thin layer of new ice formed over Quèbec, Canada's, St. Lawrence River in mid-January 2010. This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on January 17, shows the mouth of the river.