An Oakvillegreen Special Event:
Meet the Hanlon Creek Defenders
Thursday, February 25
At dawn one day last summer in Guelph, Ontario, 60 people walked onto an industrial construction site and set up a temporary home, complete with a composting toilet, strawbale first aid tent, lookout tower and kitchen. Within hours, work on Guelph’s much opposed 675-acre Hanlon Creek Business Park, that would destroy the area’s last stand of old growth forest and the habitat of threatened wildlife, was shut down. Find out what happened next when you meet the Hanlon Creek Defenders from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Oakville Room at Oakville’s Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Please feel free to invite friends to this special event.
Update: New 400-Acre Conservation Area Plan Approved
The Board of Conservation Halton has approved a plan for the creation of the Glenorchy Conservation Area, a new 400 hectare nature preserve in north Oakville. The lands that form Glenorchy were saved from development because of Oakvillegreen’s advocacy and the work of Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn. While the Province retains ownership of the land, Conservation Halton will manage the land. Its master plan focuses on restoration and enhancement of the natural environment with limited trails for recreation and education.
The plan complies with the lands designation as part of Oakville’s Natural Heritage System. Oakvillegreen attended every meeting on the creation of the new Conservation Area and provided much input. We thank all our members who contributed to the public hearings into this plan and we look forward to working with Conservation Halton in restoring Glenorchy to its full potential. As well, we thank Oakville MPP and previous ealy board members of Oakvillegreen for their unstinting advocacy to preserve this area for future generations.
Tell our Politicians that You Want Clean Energy Jobs
Please take a moment to tell the party leaders in Ottawa that you want them to pass a clean energy jobs law and to scale up investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy.
The U.S. is investing fourteen times more per person in energy efficiency and renewable energy than us, and countries like Germany and China are doing even more.
Call on federal political leaders to make clean energy jobs and pollution reduction a priority by signing the petition at: www.cleanenergyjobs.ca. Campaign led by ForestEthics.
Halton Green Screens Movie: Food Inc.
Thursday, February 25
Halton Green Screens presents Food, Inc., in which filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Cost: $5. At 7 p.m. at Encore Cinemas, 171 Speers Rd., Oakville. For more info go to: www.haltongreenscreens.ca
Citizens For Clean Air Rally at Queens Park
Tuesday, March 2
The residents’ group that’s organizing opposition to the gas-fired generating plant that’s proposed to be built in southeast Oakville is organizing at rally at Queen’s Park (the Ontario Legislature) at 780 University Ave. north of Wellesley Ave. in Toronto from noon to 1 p.m. For more info go to: www.c4ca.org
The residents’ group that’s organizing opposition to the gas-fired generating plant that’s proposed to be built in southeast Oakville is organizing at rally at Queen’s Park (the Ontario Legislature) at 780 University Ave. north of Wellesley Ave. in Toronto from noon to 1 p.m.
Volunteers Needed for 10th Annual EcoFest
Saturday April 17 & Sunday April 18
Don’t miss this two-day event sponsored by the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights. Connect with green businesses and groups at the Glen Abbey Recreation Centre 1415 Third Line. Cost $5/adult; $2/student, senior. For more info go to www.haltonecofest.ca
If you are interested in volunteering, there is a meeting on Thursday, March 4 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. The meeting will take place in the program room on the second floor of the Central Public Library which is located in downtown Oakville at the corner of Lakeshore and Navy.
