Brockville Climate Action Group

Natural Resources Canada published a report on climate change impacts and adaptation late in 2007, without announcement. The chapter discussing the southern Ontario sub-region is available here:

Climate Change Impacts: Southern Ontario

Speaking Truth to Power / Carolyn Baker / 31 July 2008

It's the same with everyone I speak to who's been watching the downward spiral of empire for any length of time: "I can't believe how fast things are unraveling", we all say to each other. The incessant mantra these days from people who haven't been paying attention is that "things are going to get better", but almost no one is denying that we are in uncharted waters beyond anything we've experienced since the Great Depression. The uninformed are traumatized, and traumatized people almost always revert to "it's going to get better" thinking in order to cope with their current plight.

Ottawa Citizen / Jake Rupert / 02 July 2008

With scientific models predicting a hotter and wetter Ottawa due to climate change, city bureaucrats say the time to prepare is now.

Council's planning and environment committee is being asked to endorse a climate change adaptation plan for the city next Tuesday.

The plan was created by officials in the economic and environmental sustainability group, and it's the next step in series of events after council's 2005 decision to acknowledge climate change and that greenhouse gases are contributing to it.

Sudbury Star / Star staff / 09 June 2008

A research group based at Laurentian University will be part of a new network designed to share solutions to climate change. In a release Monday, the Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation said it plans to form the North/South Climate Change Network with the Clean Air Partnership.

“The network will create an environment where communities and stakeholder groups within Ontario can learn, share success stories and collectively advance the province’s knowledge on climate change solutions,” said Al Douglas, project co-lead.

Kingston Whig / Jennifer Pritchett / 27 May 2008

During the 42 years that Keith Colborne has run a television and stereo repair shop, he has sent an estimated 6,000 TVs to the landfill because the items couldn’t be fixed.

He has never felt good about it, but he didn’t have a choice. Electronic recycling programs just didn’t exist.

But that’s all changing.

While the province is still mulling a proposed plan to recycle electronic waste through a fee-based system, Sony has established depots to keep old televisions, stereos, VCRs and other equipment out of landfills.

Toronto Star / Tyler Hamilton / 02 June 2008

Environmental groups are converging on Queen's Park this morning to encourage the creation of a Green Energy Act for Ontario, essentially legislation that would make energy conservation and renewable power in the province more than a series of unco-ordinated, feel-good announcements.

The legislation they propose would be modeled after a similar act in Germany, which by giving priority to renewables such as wind and solar has become a global powerhouse in the sector.