Municipal Resolutions of Support – Update
North Kawartha is the latest municipality to endorse the Coalition's work in support of integrated water management for the Trent watershed.
They join Trent Lakes (formerly Galway-Cavendish-Harvey), Algonquin Highlands, Highlands East, and Dysart et al who all passed resolution of support in 2012.
In their resolution the Township of North Kawartha calls on the Federal Government to ensure […]
Rising Water Level Alert
Due to lower than average snowpack conditions, the Trent Severn Waterway has been reinstalling logs in several Haliburton dams earlier than usual in an effort to capture enough water to fill the lakes for the boating season. Lake levels are rising and in some cases water is 'flooding over the surface ice'. We understand that […]
CEWF ‘Statement’ on proposed changes at TSW
The CEWF Executive Committee has released the attached 'Statement' (click here) in light of the recent public debate about a new governance structure for the TSW along with increased fees and reduced hours of operation for users of the canal portion of the TSW system.
We are concerned that by focusing the public […]
CEWF Updates – Jan 2013
Following are updates of the key recent CEWF/TSW activities:
Devolin meeting
the CEWF Executive Committee met with MP Barry Devolin Dec 20 to review TSW issues
included in the discussion was Barry's planned private member's bill proposing that the management of the TSW be moved out of Parks Canada
some links for further information:
No Protection of Navigation…?
The most recent Federal omnibus bill has buried in it dramatic, and very skewed, changes to the Navigation Protection Act. None of the Reservoir Lakes are slated to be protected. For a brief backgrounder on this, click here.
As a first step, we have written a letter from CEWF to the Federal Government […]
CEWF Updates – Oct 2012
Information updates:
Meeting Notes from the 2012 CEWF AGM – click here
Municipal Resolutions in support of CEWF – click here
welcome to Dr. R. S. Lean, prominent environmental scientist, who joins CEWF Advisory Committee – click here
The Advisory Committee continues to work through the ramifications of the significant changes being proposed […]