Jan. 26, 2012 (Ottawa) — Ecology Ottawa praised the National Capital Commission (NCC) today for its plan to further expand Ottawa’s greenbelt and denounced members of the development community who are already working to undermine this responsible move. “The NCC’s intention to add a 10 per cent expansion beyond the existing Greenbelt over 50 years is exactly that type of visionary idea that Ottawa needs more of,” said Graham Saul, chair of Ecology Ottawa.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Press release: Ecology Ottawa praises the NCC’s greenbelt expansion plan, denounces developers opposed to the idea
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Media Clips — July-December 2011
January 25, 2012 Three hours and 57 minutes … Ottawa Citizen, December 22 2011 By Patricia LeBouef OTTAWA — VIA Rail says new express trains to be added Jan. 24 will travel between Ottawa and Toronto in three hours and 57 minutes — the quickest time ever between the national and provincial capitals. VIA Rail [...]
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Municipal Financing of Energy Efficiency Retrofits
January 23, 2012 In a presentation to the Environment Committee during the 2012 Draft Budget consultations, Ecology Ottawa recommended the City undertake the following three clean energy and energy efficiency initiatives in 2012: 1. Municipal Financing of Energy Retrofits. We are asking that the City fund a feasibility study of a municipal financing program for [...]
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Help Protect Our Rivers from Untreated Sewage
Help Protect Our Rivers from Untreated Sewage!
Every year, the City of Ottawa dumps hundreds of millions of litres of untreated sewage directly into the Ottawa River. Now you have an opportunity to help stop this travesty once and for all.
Please click here to sign a petition addressed to all Ottawa area MPs, MPPs urging them to ensure that funding for the Ottawa River Action Plan flows soon.
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Ecology Ottawa congratulates Mayor Watson and city councillors for one of the greenest budgets in years
PRESS RELEASE – November 30, 2011 (Ottawa, ON) – Mayor Jim Watson and Ottawa’s city councillors were congratulated today by Ecology Ottawa for passing a fairly good budget, from an environmental perspective. “This is the greenest budget in years, but unfortunately it lacks a clear vision on the greatest challenge facing the world today: climate change,” said Trevor Haché, policy coordinator of Ecology Ottawa.
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Promising Practices
January 11, 2012 Ecology Ottawa, on behalf of the Community Energy Network of Eastern Ontario, is engaged in province-wide research on emerging promising practices related to energy efficiency and renewable energy. As we widely disseminate the information, it is hoped that Network members will learn about what other institutions across Ontario are doing to promote [...]
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