preservation

Editorial: Countryside Is an Option

29 December, 2008 | Nicola Ross

I look out over the Credit River valley and the Niagara ­Escarpment from my home office. It’s early May and soon leaves will have burst open. But for a few days, there is an ephemeral green tinge to the maple and beech, ­basswood and birch trees that cling to the cliffs that drop down to the engorged river below.

Not Just a "Bloody Swamp"

18 June, 2009 | Nathan Vadeboncoeur

Nathan Vadeboncoeur shares how Manitoba’s Brokenhead Wetland was saved by a slight language adjustment and a different tack in public relations.

HOME TO EVIL SPIRITS and trolls, to say nothing of mosquitoes, swamps face a public relations problem. Wetlands, on the other hand, are adored for their myriad environmental benefits. But wait. Aren’t they the same thing? They are, in that a swamp is a type of wetland. But as supporters of Southeast Manitoba’s Brokenhead Wetland learned, the lexical difference between swamp and wetland represents a broad cognitive divide. ...

Citizen Monitors

28 May, 2009 | Robert Gibson and Debbe Crandall

Lake Wilcox should be safe. It is on the Oak Ridges Moraine, an area specially protected under Ontario planning law. But if Lake Wilcox isn’t ruined by spreading suburbia, it will owe more to Sharon and Jim Bradley than to planning policies.

Power of the People

26 May, 2009 | Don Mullin

In October 2006, a joint federal-provincial review panel recom­mended that both levels of government reject the Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal proposal in Nova Scotia. The proposal involved the creation of a 120-hectare basalt rock quarry and shipping terminal located on Digby Neck.

Application Denied

26 May, 2009 | Robert Gibson and Alberto Fonseca

Northgate Mineral Corporation’s proposed Kemess North Project will not be going ahead, at least not soon and not as proposed. The project – an open-pit, copper-gold expansion to an existing mine in a remote, mountainous area of northcentral British Columbia – was rejected by provincial and federal authorities.

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