Public Interest Groups Call for Land Withdrawals to Ease Pressure
December 14, 2009 - Toronto - A rapid increase in exploratory mining activities, including staking, drilling and clearance of vegetation in the heart of Ontario's Boreal Forest, one of the world's most carbon-rich ecosystems, has become a "Wild West" free for all, warn public interest groups. CPAWS Wildlands League, Ecojustice and Mining Watch Canada are concerned that development in an area known in the industry as the 'Ring of Fire' in Ontario's Far North is exploding due to inadequate control under an antiquated Mining Act.
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December 13, 2009 - TORONTO - Today students, moms, dads, sons and daughters joined CPAWS Wildlands League and Celebrity Swim Marshall George Smitherman for a polar bear swim in Lake Ontario.
Smitherman got participants all fired up with tales from his past summer trip where he actually saw Polar Bears, "I paddled the Sutton River in northern Ontario with Wildlands League and saw a young male Polar Bear on the ridge. His coat was a magnificient creamy colour and he blew me away."
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