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Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is working with communities all along the Lake Ontario watershed to win back your right to swim, drink and fish in safe clean water. Part of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Primary Format : Environment Language : en Also Listed as: City : Toronto State/Province : Ontario User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Living at the Barricades Podcasts Methings.com listings of Living at the Barricades Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Living at the Barricades Heart of a Lake: Live from the Charles Sauriol dinner This very special episode of Living at the Barricades features three of the six performers in Heart of a Lake: Gord Downie, Tanis Rideout, and your Waterkeeper, Mark Mattson. You will hear author Joseph Boyden’s readings on the Moose River during an upcoming episode of Living at the Barricades. Two of our performers, Andrea Nann [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lafarge fuels case comes to an end (November 16, 2009) Back in 2006, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper started researching the environmental effects of burning tires at cement kilns. Not long after, Bath area residents, including our good friend and Trustee for Lake Ontario, Gord Downie, raised alarm bells about one tire burning proposal in particular. The Lafarge Alternative Fuels project, as it was known, was a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hesitating experiments that change our world (November 4, 2009) The Government of Canada is poised to build a massive low-level radioactive waste site in Port Hope, Ontario. The environmental assessment is done. The licence has been issued. The Port Hope radioactive waste site — a hesitating experiment that will change the future of our waterfront. We talk about such experiments on this episode, including [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canada & U.S. clash over new environmental rules for ships on the Great Lakes The United States Environmental Protection Agency is pushing a set of new rules for ships operating in or near the United States. These rules, under the Clean Air Act, would affect all ships on the Great Lakes. The EPA is telling ship owners to start burning cleaner fuel in an effort to reduce sulphur and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Activist filmmakers take over Toronto (Oct 1 2009) From October 1-4, the Royal Theatre on College Street in Toronto becomes home to the MUCK Film Festival and Forum. “Movies of Uncommon Knowledge” examine creative solutions to social issues such as war and global warming. On today’s show, Krystyn speaks with Dr. Stuart Samuels, the MUCK Festival’s creative director. We also team up with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protest! Environmentalists and global demonstrations (October 21, 2009) Placard-waving, slogan-chanting, headline grabbing demonstrators are the environmental movement’s trademark. Over the last thirty years, we’ve seen mass demonstrations in the U.S., China, Europe, and South America. Lately, we are seeing more actions taking place in Canada - including Alberta’s Tar Sands. Today on Living at the Barricades, we’ll tell you why. This episode features [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mountains: The artists who fight for the Niagara Escarpment (October 19 2009) One of the busiest organizations on Lake Ontario right now is a volunteer group that goes by the name of PERL - Protecting Escarpment Rural Land. PERL is the leading voice for the protection of the Niagara Escarpment from the Nelson quarry expansion near Burlington, Ontario. In the last month, PERL has thrown a fundraising [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind power and the new rules for radicals (October 7, 2009) Few development proposals are more controversial in Ontario right now than wind projects. When Canadian Hydro Developers, SkyPower, Toronto Hydro, Trillium and their ilk decide to build turbines, controversy always follows. Wind development is an important issue. The Ontario government is relying heavily on the what it calls the “Green Economy” to rebuild the province’s economy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to Ontario. What a dump. On today’s show: success at Dump Site 41. The plan to bury waste on the shores of Georgian Bay is scuttled. The next issue on the horizon is the long-term struggle for a safe, fair plan for dealing with garbage in Ontario. We get an update on Site 41 from Mark Calzavara of Council of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Activist filmmakers take over Toronto (Oct 1 2009) From October 1-4, the Royal Theatre on College Street in Toronto becomes home to the MUCK Film Festival and Forum. “Movies of Uncommon Knowledge” examine creative solutions to social issues such as war and global warming. On today’s show, Krystyn speaks with Dr. Stuart Samuels, the MUCK Festival’s creative director. We also team up with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dumping ground- port hope’s radioactive waste stigma (September 16, 2009) In late August, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper was one of 100 intervenors that took part in a licencing hearing for a massive low-level radioactive waste project in Port Hope, Ontario. Waterkeeper, other intervenors, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and journalists all seemed to struggle with the same question: how do you criticize the specific details of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bad Harvest - the troubled Great Lakes fishery (Sept. 8, 2009) As environmental advocates, we encourage people to get to know Lake Ontario. But some parts of the lake are so polluted that touching the water or eating the fish that lived there can be a health risk. We do not want to overemphasize the risk, because it scares people away. And where communities are afraid [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirty Little Secret (Aug. 4, 2009) The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported, Living at the Barricades called Elaine McDonald. Elaine is the senior scientist at Ecojustice, formerly known as Sierra [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dump Site 41 (July 22, 2009) Dump Site 41, a proposed dump on the pristine Alliston Aquifer, has become one of the most contentious environmental issues in Ontario today. This week, Living at the Barricades speaks with Mark Calzavara of The Council of Canadians, and Ray Millar, a resident of Tiny Township in anticipation of a major rally set for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Port Storm (June 10, 2009) Mark and Krystyn talk about Minister John Baird’s decision to establish a Port Authority in the City of Oshawa. The decision overrides the City’s vision for a clean, green, public waterfront. We interview Larry Ladd of the Oshawa Marina Users Group. Music on this week’s show: Corruption by Fantan Mojah Give a Man a Fish (Live) by Arrested Development Fat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring the Green Energy Act (May 12, 2009) The Ontario government’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act is now on the table. Mark and Krystyn are joined by Scarborough blogger and activist John Laforet as we explore how the changes in the proposed Green Energy Act will affect much more than the development of energy projects in Ontario. Music on this week’s show: Around [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Senate road trip (Navigable Waters) This is our third trip to the Canadian Senate to speak on the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Living at the Barricades’ hosts Krystyn and Mark hit the road to discuss our concerns with the changes to the Act that were ushered through as part of the 2009 Budget. Along the way, we’ll hear from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music is our heartbeat - The Swim Drink Fish Music Club (May 25, 2009) Today on Living at the Barricades, we are excited announce the launch of The Swim Drink Fish Music Club. We’ll hear from some of the artists who have donated exclusive tracks to the charity, led by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Fraser Riverkeeper and Ottawa Riverkeeper, to bring music to the fight for swimmable, drinkable, fishable [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Mamas and Water Babies (June 1, 2009) Mark and Krystyn talk about the founding of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and the impact of mothers on the environmental movement. We interview Mark’s mom, Jackie Mattson, and Krystyn’s mom, Sandra Tully, as well as the newest mother in the Waterkeeper movement, Lauren Brown from Fraser Riverkeeper. Music on this week’s show: LL Cool J - Mamma Said [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Port Storm (June 10, 2009) Mark and Krystyn talk about Minister John Baird’s decision to establish a Port Authority in the City of Oshawa. The decision overrides the City’s vision for a clean, green, public waterfront. We interview Larry Ladd of the Oshawa Marina Users Group. Music on this week’s show: Corruption by Fantan Mojah Give a Man a Fish (Live) by Arrested Development Fat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website