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HALTON PEEL VIEWS ON BIODIVERSITY (May 22 6:00 pm) MOVED TO 66 MAIN STREET SOUTH.

 

5th Biodiversity Day at the Georgetown Marketplace was a great time!
Thank you to all who took time to stop and talk. Also thank you to the 14 person team that made the day possible and a big thank you to the Marketplace.  
Remember that May 22 is International Biodiversity Day.  Take part in the global celebration by taking action for Biodiversity on Wednesday - There is still time to register for the GreenWave! http://greenwave.cbd.int/en/home

BUSY DAY May 16!
Biodiversity Matters 4 at Georgetown District High School was a great success!  Focus was Biodiversity and Wetlands.  Duck Box Building, learning about wetlands, Youth Views on Biodiversity, a welcome for the Convention on Biological Diversity executive secretary, web quests, wetland jeopardy and helping youth have skills to make videos and animal ambassadors from Wild Ontario and Exotic Critter Tails. 

AND!!!!  P.O.W.E.R. delegated to the Niagara Escarpment Commission on the JART report.  Doris Treleaven, President of P.O.W.E.R. did a great job that would have made Barbara Halsall proud!. Come visit us May 18 at the Georgetown marketplace for our Biodiversity Day celebration and find out more about what P.O.W.E.R. is doing.

Halton Hills Views on Biodiversity - May 22 5:30 - 9:00 Acton Arena
50 people maximum. Please register by email to info@powerhalton.ca  You will be sent background information we request you review prior to May 22. Light dinner is included. more information here

Acton Quarry JART response NIAGARA ESCARPMENT COMMISSION (NEC) MEETING MAY 16. 10 AM
The NEC will be hearing from planners in response to the JART on the Acton Quarry. 
venue: 232 GUELPH STREET, GEORGETOWN, ON L7G 4B1

Acton Quarry FINAL Joint Agency Review Team (JART) Report Released
The JART report is intended to be written so that non-technical people can understand some of the ways the impacts from the quarry will be dealt with. With this final JART report, we are inching closer to decisions for the Acton Quarry. PLEASE take the time to review the report and give us and the decision makers (Ministry of Natural Resources, Niagara Escarpment Commission, Region of Halton, Town of Halton Hills, Credit Valley Conservation, Halton Conservation) your feedback on the report, where your concerns are, and if you support or object to the Acton Quarry new license and expansion. The people to contact for the decision makers are on pages two and three of the JART Report. If you would like, we can meet with you to help explain things the best we can. JART Report can be downloaded here. (4.2 MB). https://www.dropbox.com/s/d9sp5a8znvhxi24/jart%20final.pdf

UPDATE  Canada's Draft 2020 Biodiversity Goals and Targets The federal government has released a draft and is looking for feedback and direction on indicators.  Information will be posted here shortly.  P.O.W.E.R., through RCEN will be setting up a conference call consultation with the Federal Government.  If you are interested in participating please send an email to biodiversity@rcen.ca 

Canada's Draft 2020 Biodiversity Goals and Targets COMMENT PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 To view the document slides, click here
To view the email from Environment Canada, click here



Green Drinks North Halton
May 29, 2013 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Shepherd's Crook 86 Main St S, Georgetown, ON L7G 3E4
In partnership with Milton Green and Halton Peel BioDiversity Network
All welcome!
 

PLEASE help us make a difference for BioDiversity in Halton Peel vote for our project and tell your friends! click the link below and make a difference for BioDiversity and Youth

http://fuellingchange.com/main/project/396/BioDiversity-Matters-Future-Forest-2013

 

Take Action for Acton - Share Your Oppinions on the Acton Quarry

  

  Right now, government and agencies are reviewing the new license to mine in the Niagara Escarpment, and expand the license in Ontario's Green Belt. P.O.W.E.R. is opposed to this.  To find out more see http://www.escarpmentmatters.org/ActonQuarryNoThanks.aspx or send us an email to connect.

To add your voice consider sending in this letter or another statement.  If you do send along something please email copy to us as well.  Where does the letter need to go or for other  CONCERNS/COMPLAINTS/QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/OTHER click here

 


Please vote for Shell Fueling change - please vote for POWER/HPBDN BioDiversity Matters Future Forests 2013 -
If you have a car please get your gas at shell and vote for our project. Don't have a car? You can still vote. for details on how to participate see events Fuelling Change on your left
http://www.fuellingchange.com/main/project/396/BioDiversity-Matters-Future-Forest-2013

 

POWERLINE summer 2012 edition now available on the website.  next edition coming soon

 
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Critically Endangered
Northern River Terrapin
Batagur baska
Click on the picture above to learn more about this amazing species
Check Arkive for information, including multi media, on all species http://www.arkive.org/  


 


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THE DECADE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2011- 2020 the Decade of Biological Diversity.  A clear direction for the Decade is to reduce the root causes of continued degradation on the planet’s biodiversity and calls on all of us to  take urgent action to save and restore our web of life. P.O.W.E.R. will work over the Decade to take actions to mainstream BioDiversity, doing our best to realign the current paradigm and treatment of BioDiversity to one the is sustainable.  The fornal launch of the decade took place on May 22, 2011 the International Day for BioDiversity.  P.O.W.E.R. is pleased to be able to work with the Canadian Environmental Network and the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity as we enter the decade. 

WELCOME TO INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE'S (IUCN) AMAZING SPECIES SERIES
Check the "Amazing Species" button in left sidebar.
In 2010 P.O.W.E.R. worked through the IUCN's Species A Day to help raise awareness on Biological Diversity. This was done in conjunction and in celebration of the 2010 International Year for Biological Diversity. We are pleased to be able to host on our website IUCN's work on this great series.

The Amazing Species series is designed to capture our attention and to increase our awareness of the enormous variety of life on our planet, and the fact that "Biodiversity is the backbone of all life on earth, but every day species’ extinctions are continuing at up to 1,000 times or more the natural rate http://www.iucnredlist.org/amazing-species/about
The Amazing Species will regularly feature a key species to represent a group of species and the region it comes from. Think of the amazing species as a keystone species or a flagship for the species and genetic diversity and the broader ecosystem.

For those of us wanting to look back on the Species A Day series, they are archived on the IUCN website at http://www.iucnredlist.org/amazing-species/about

 
 
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P.O.W.E.R. IS TAKING ACTION TODAY... FOR A SUSTAINABLE TOMORROW!
Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources -- P.O.W.E.R. is a thriving not-for-profit community based organization committed to protecting the environment and the quality of life in North Halton and beyond. P.O.W.E.R. was formed in 1987 by citizens concerned about a plan to turn the Acton quarry, on the Niagara Escarpment, into a garbage dump. The dump was stopped but the importance of protecting water, environmental resources and ecology, and the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve, continues.

P.O.W.E.R. and its broad-based membership and partners work to, educate, foster actions and develop measured solutions that address unsustainable patterns and approaches that affect the quality of life and health of our planet. We believe that a healthy environment is the foundation for a bright future. Recognizing this, P.O.W.E.R. works to develop proactive projects, programs, directions and policies that recognize the necessity, importance, value and role of natural spaces, native species and ecosystem function and flows for sustainable communities.

Special thanks to Lucas Wagner of BurOak for building and hosting our website and for continuing to go beyond to help meet our needs. Thanks also to Glenn Heshka for the beautiful photograph that is our web banner! We look forward to showcasing more of Glenn’s photos in the future.  

With our web site, P.O.W.E.R. strives to serve our community better. Protecting our natural environment and helping people engage is the reason we exist. Please tell us if you have any ideas about how we can serve you better. 

P.O.W.E.R.
P.O. Box 192 Georgetown, ON L7G 4T1
(905) 873-1820
info@powerhalton.ca

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