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  OTTAWA -- The Rideau Canal locks and campsites across Ottawa and eastern Ontario will remain closed for the May long weekend, as the stay-at-home order continues. The May long weekend is considered the unofficial start of summer, and a popular weekend for people to go camping or put the boat in the water for the first time this season. However, with Ontario extending the stay-at-home order until June 2, Parks Canada, Ontario Parks and other campsites in the region say they will remain c...

  LONDON, ONT. -- A petition started a year ago to save a threatened species breeding ground from being developed has eclipsed 30,000 signatures. The petition called Ssave Londons bank swallows has collected over 33,000 signatures and was delivered Saturday to Minister of Environment Conservation and Parks Jeff Yurek, as well as the Minister of Natural Resources John Yakabuski. Upwards of 2000 bank swallows nest and breed in the former Byron gravel pit which is planned for development putt...

Destruction of Hillock in Kulaura Landless woman implicated in UP chairman’s crime Workers fled from the site -- at Islamnagar of Bhatera union in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila -- where this correspondent arrived to witness the destruction of this hillock for the construction of a school, below. Photo: Mintu Deshwara Our Correspondent, Moulvibazar Our Correspondent, Moulvibazar The chairman of Bhatera union parishad (UP) in Kulaura upazila has b...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Top: Draft load P [kN]: Middle: Tractive force acting on the front wheel Fd,1 [kN] and static friction limitation of the front tyres μfv,1 [kN]; Bottom: Tractive force acting on... view more  Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED WITH PERMISSION FROM Biosystems Engineering, Volume 204, 2021, Pages 156-169. COPYRIGHT © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IAgrE. Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) modeled the dynamic instability...

Kanselasyon ng Subic coal project ipinagbunyi ng green groups Kanselasyon ng Subic coal project ipinagbunyi ng green groups Share Ikinalugod ng Power for People Coalition (P4P) at wine-welcome ng grupo kahapon ang kanselasyon ng 2×300 MW coal-fired power plant project Meralco sa Subic, Zambales. Ang pagkakakansela sa naturang proyekto ay itinuturing na tagumpay ng mga komunidad na tumututol sa coal. Magsisilbi na umano itong babala sa posibleng kasapitan ng iba pang itinutulak na coal pr...

Jot down another victory for all the anti-coal advocates out there. Clean energy and consumers rights group Power for People Coalition (P4P) hailed on Wednesday, April 28 the cancellation of the 600-megawatt (MW) Subic coal plant project listed under Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. (RP Energy), call

By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published April 28, 2021 7:51pm The Power for People Coalition (P4P) on Wednesday lauded the cancellation of an energy consortium’s plan to put up a 660-megawatt coal fired power plant in Subic, Zambales. In a statement, P4P said Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc., a joint venture between Meralco’s generation arm Meralco PowerGen, Aboitiz Power Corporation, and Taiwan Cogeneration Corp., has said it will no longer pursue the coal-fired plant project. The consortiu...

Protests continue against model road project Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A day after the Coimbatore Corporation issued a detailed clarification on Tuesday saying that it had not cut trees, covered greenery with concrete and attempted to destroy the beauty of Race Course in executing the model road project, protests continued on Wednesday morning. In the clarification the Corporation had also said that those levelling allegations that it had cut trees had no proof, it had only removed ...

Coimbatore: ‘Save Race Course’, a petition launched by a group of residents and environmentalists on change.org, has amassed 2,500 supporters in 24 hours. The group wants the city corporation to stop the Smart City project being taken up in the area, share the project plan with the public and form a consensus, before going ahead. The e-petition was launched after 70 trees were removed for the project and Thomas Park, which had some rare shrubs, was razed to the ground, said R Mohammed Salee...

Shifting the marine economic model in the coastal district of Can Gio towards ecological environment conservation and humanity would be a breakthrough of the city, according to the official.   At the workshop (Photo: VNA) There is an evitable need for HCM City to turn itself into a hub of finance and commercial services of regional and international standards, he said. Dr. Nguyen Duc Hien, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, said Vietnam has a coastline of more...