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Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say.

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The AbitibiBowater mill here was shut down indefinitely yesterday morning after a problem was identified at the company’s effluent treatment system.

Workers at the Darlington nuclear station filled the wrong tank with a cocktail of water and a radioactive isotope Monday, spilling more than 200,000 litres into Lake Ontario.

Members of the Simon Lake Stewardship Group were "appalled" this summer after learning the city dumps billions of litres of untreated or partially treated sewage into local waterways."We are rather appalled. For the most part, none of us were aware that was happening," said Lesley Flowers, a group member.

It wants ships to be allowed to continue using the high-polluting fuel and to instead install smokestack scrubbers that would clean up their emissions. The Canadian recommendation, if accepted, could delay the clean-air measure for years, because the technology for the scrubbers does not yet exist.

Couchiching First Nation residents still are waiting for action and answers from federal agencies months after engineering tests revealed high levels of contamination at the former site of the J.A. Mathieu sawmill.

Ontario will do in part by 2010 what it once promised to do entirely by 2007 -- by shutting down four of the province's coal-burning power and smog producing power units."We are as a jurisdiction determined to eliminate coal-fired generation from our energy supply mix," Energy Minister George Smitherman said yesterday at Ontario Power Generation's headquarters, a smudgy haze visible in the 19th-floor view behind him.

Pele Mountain Resources of Toronto has commissioned a long-term research study to minimize the environmental impact of its proposed Eco Ridge uranium project near Elliot Lake

With another round of aerial herbicide sprays scheduled to take place north of Massey in the second half of August, Vautour and another man living outside of Massey, Robert Bouchard, contacted Sun Media to express their concerns.

as a result of recent legal submissions, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment is currently reviewing safety precautions surrounding Tembec's application of non-essential chemical herbicides in the Romeo Malette Forest, which encompasses Timmins.

Greater Sudbury has been placed on a worst offender list among Ontario cities discharging untreated sewage into waterways.The city ranks sixth among eight municipalities that reportedly discharged more than one billion litres of untreated sewer water in 2006-07, according to a report released by Ecojustice, an environmental advocacy group.

Last week, farmers blockaded the road which leads to the North Simcoe Landfill -- formerly known as Site 41 -- and trapped dump trucks bound for the facility.
Yesterday, there was no truck traffic when they arrived around 10 a. m. At first, they stopped the tractors to get out and chat. But when OPP told them they had to keep moving, they formed a line and moved off to turn around and go back and forth.