Par Krystalle Ramlakhan, ICI Radio Canada
Une application qui vise à réduire le gaspillage alimentaire des entreprises a été lancée cette semaine à Ottawa et à Gatineau.
Les épiceries et restaurants de la région peuvent maintenant créer un compte dans Too Good To Go. Le but? Éviter que des denrées se retrouvent à la poubelle en vendant des sacs surprises
au rabais à la fin de chaque journée.
By Dani-elle Dubé, City News
North Grenville’s new organic waste program has proven to be a good thing for the municipality, according to council.
The program implemented last February not only diverted waste from the landfill, but the cost to implement the program was under budget.
...Key findings show the average “organics capture rate” surpassed the first- and second-year goals of 30 and 40 per cent, respectively, by reaching 41 per cent.
By Jessica MacDiarmid, National Observer, June 3, 2022
...The seven-seat increase from the 2018 election issues Ford a resounding stamp of approval from voters after an often-embattled first term that saw his government, in the words of a Greenpeace spokesperson, “taking a sledgehammer to Ontario climate policies.”
Across the province, environmentalists shuddered.
“If it’s anything like the previous four years, I think we’re in for a really challenging time,” said Caroline Schultz, executive director of Ontario Nature.
By Nick Grover, Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed
During a press conference in Ottawa this morning, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford focused on his plan to “help” commuters by widening a five-kilometre stretch of Highway 417 from six lanes to eight because this is, clearly, the defining election issue for Ottawa voters. Reviving this plan, originally drafted in 2016, is puzzling since construction of the city’s LRT Line 2 is now underway on that exact stretch.
But there’s a more fundamental problem with highway expansion: it doesn’t work. We’ve known for decades that widening roads doesn’t reduce congestion. New space attracts more drivers and before long roads are once again packed.
By the Canadian Press, City News
Ontario's NDP is proposing to establish a new cap-and-trade system for emissions reductions in the province if they are elected this week.
The NDP, Liberals and Greens all pledge to cut emissions in half by 2030 below 2005 levels, but only the New Democrats are promising a new cap-and-trade system to achieve those reductions.
By Krystalle Ramlakhan, CBC News Ottawa
A Smiths Falls, Ont., couple say they're pleased the town has rescinded an order to uproot their "naturalized" lawn, but fear the battle isn't over yet.
Instead of a manicured lawn and garden, Beth and Craig Sinclair planted 150 trees and other native plant species in front of their bungalow. The couple, who moved to Smiths Falls from Seattle about a decade ago, said natural lawns like theirs are common in their former city.
By the Editorial Board, Ottawa Citizen, May 24, 2022
...There was little warning it was coming on a day expected to yield only sporadic thunderstorms.
Suffice to say, lessons must be learned.
As John Stone, a member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argues in the Citizen this week, it’s past time governments took the issue of climate change adaptation seriously, developing innovative technologies and policies to help us cope with our altered climate.
By Joseph Bennett, Steven Cooke, Lenore Fahrig and John Smol, Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed
In the election coverage and debate in Ontario, a profound crisis is being overlooked: the destruction of Ontario’s nature and the species that inhabit it. This election may determine the fate of species who have been here for thousands of years.
The magnitude of this problem is shocking. Approvals to harm species at risk and their habitats have risen more than 6,000 per cent since 2008. Ontario’s once-innovative Endangered Species Act has been gutted. Enforcement against killing species at risk and destroying their habitats has virtually disappeared. And there is no strategic plan to improve the status of Ontario’s species.
By Andrew Duffy, Ottawa Citizen, May 24, 2022
It helps them reproduce by spreading seeds and pollen, it governs their growth and height, and it brings down the old and the weak.
Such was the case Saturday when thousands of trees in Ottawa were damaged or uprooted during the powerful spring storm that battered the region with what have been described as “hurricane-force” winds gusting to 120 km/h.
By City News
The City of Ottawa will carry out a green bin blitz in neighbourhoods hardest-hit by the weekend storm, to ensure that organic waste is collected as soon as possible, including food that has spoiled during power outages.
The focus will begin in the Stittsville, Knoxdale-Merivale, River and Cumberland wards, and residents are being asked to set out their green bins for collection.
By Ashley Culp, InsideOttawaValley, May 22, 2022
Lanark County has been making strides toward saving the climate, but is saving money more important?
Council may have answered yes to that question May 11 when they opted to seek natural gas options to replace heating and hot water systems in three Lanark County Housing Corporation (LCHC) buildings.
By Cleo Logan, National Observer, May 20, 2022 (something for Ottawa to think of??)
If a Vancouver gas station or commercial lot with 60 spots or more wants to avoid a $10,000 annual licence fee, it will need to have electric vehicle (EV) chargers available by 2025.
On Thursday, Vancouver city council approved a report first brought forward in April. Currently, gas stations and commercial parking lots pay a $243 fee for licensing. If they install EV charging infrastructure by 2025, that fee will remain; if not, the cost will jump to $10,000 each year.