Issues

Here is the list of issues covered by the members of the Network.
They are grouped under these headings. Look for the heading in the chart which
closely matches what you are looking for and click it.

• 3000 acre urban boundary expansion to create an airport-centred city.

• Clean Air Hamilton re Air Quality, Industrial Emissions, Mobile Emissions and Air Quality Monitoring, Trans-boundary Air Pollution, Upwind-Downwind Issues
• EH - Stackwatch re Industrial Emissions - Observing and reporting visible air emissions.

HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.

Conserver Society.

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• OPIRG McMaster.

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• EH - Tonnes for Trees re Reducing greenhouse gases.
• Positive Power re education and action to improve climate change through renewable energy activities.

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• EH re promoting consumption and production of local food.
• OPIRG McMaster.

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• Conserver Society. Providing public information opportunities to help preserve our environment.
• Field and Stream Rescue Team re working with schools and groups (scouts) to discuss water quality issues and yellow fish road.
• Bay Area Restoration Council.
• Earth Day Hamilton.
• Giants Rib.
• Hamilton-Wentworth Stewardship Council.
• Ecological Responsibility in Education (SERE).

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• Green Venture re Energy Conservation.
• Positive Power re Renewable Energy - generation of community owned renewable energy resources and education about benefits.
• EH re Peak Oil - The imminent disappearance of cheap oil and gas.
• Conserver Society re Renewable Energy, supporting research and information sharing - alternative energy sources.

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• HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.

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• EH re providing knowledge and skills required to help North Hamilton residents protect their environment.

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• Citizens Opposed to Paving the Escarpment (COPE).
• Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment (CONE).
• Giants Rib.

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OPIRG McMaster.

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• Field and Stream Rescue Team re Cleaning, rehabilitating and maintaining the unattended areas in Halton and Hamilton Regions to increase species diversity.
• Hamilton-Wentworth Stewardship Council.

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OPIRG McMaster.

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• Hamilton's Ecological Footprint
• Conserver Society.

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• Bay Area Restoration re Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan, Randle Reef Sediment Remediation and Community Involvement in Hamilton Harbour Cleanup.

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• HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.

Clean Air Hamilton.

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• Citizens Opposed to Paving the Escarpment (COPE).

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• Hamilton Conservation Authority re land protection.
• Hamilton Naturalists' Club re nature land sanctuaries.
• Giants Rib.
• Hamilton-Wentworth Stewardship Council.

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• Keep Hamilton Clean Committee.

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• HCPI.
• Conserver Society. Limiting use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes.

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• HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.

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• Friends of Red Hill Valley re opposition to building expressway in Red Hill Valley.

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• Clean Air Hamilton.

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• OPIRG McMaster.

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• HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.

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• Clean Air Hamilton.
• OPIRG McMaster re Sustainable Lifestyle Promotions.
• MacGreen for Campus Sustainability.
• EcoHouse for Sustainable Living.

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• MacGreen for Alternative Transportation.
• Hamilton Transit Users Group for Transit.
• Transportation for Liveable Communities.
• Clean Air Hamilton for Public Transit.
• Green Venture for the Commuter Challenge.
• Recycle Cycles.

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• EH TreesCount re Inventorying and planning neighbourhood forests.
• Hamilton-Wentworth Stewardship Council.

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• Clean Air Hamilton.

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• Clean Air Hamilton.
• Conserver Society.

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• Keep Hamilton Clean.
• MacGreen for waste reduction of water, energy and paper.
• Green Venture for waste diversion and reduction.
• Conserver Society.
• Recycle Cycles.
• Waste Management Task Force.

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• Student Stream Stewards for re: monitoring local streams.
• Hamilton Conservation Authority for protecting water.
• Green Venture for water conservation.
• HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.

Field and Stream Rescue Team re Water Quality focusing on urban stream restoration and clean-up.

• Bay Area Restoration Council re Water Quality.

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• HCPI re reducing non-essential urban pesticide use.
• Field and Stream Rescue Team re Watershed Restoration - plantings in an effort to control and mitigate erosion.
• Hamilton Conservation Authority
• Bay Area Restoration Council re Watershed Restoration.
• Hamilton-Wentworth Stewardship Council.

• Bay Area Restoration Council.
  

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Youth and Environment

• Field and Stream Rescue Team re student volunteer opportunities at plantings and cleanups.

For articles/letters on most of these local issues, visit www.raisethehammer.org.