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OPSEU Pension Trust (OPTrust) funds many Hydroelectric Proposals

Is this How You Want to See Your OPSEU Pension Fund Invested? It has come to our attention that at least 18 modified run-of-river hydroelectric proposals are funded through the government employees’...

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Proposed Amendment to the Class Environmental Assessment for Waterpower...

September 16, 2012 Agatha Garcia-Wright Director – Environmental Approvals Branch Ministry of the Environment 12A Floor 2 St Clair Ave W Toronto, ON M4V 1L5 Email: Agatha.GarciaWright@ontario.ca Re:...

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Rivers at Risk – The Chute and Triple Falls, on the Ivanhoe River – Paintings...

Ivanhoe “The Chute” (oil on canvas 12 x 16) Sold – 23 September 2012 Aleta Karstad – The middle fall of Triple Falls on the east side of the Ivanhoe River, 40 km north of Foleyet, Ontario – another in...

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Precious Wild Rivers – Calendar, by Aleta Karstad

ORA FUNDRAISER – 50% of the profit from the purchase of these calendars will go to help Ontario Rivers Alliance in our mandate to protect, conserve and restore riverine ecosytems.   This calendar would...

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ORA Actions Have Significant Impact on Protection of Rivers

Posted 8 March 2014 A number of environmentally harmful hydroelectric projects would likely be under construction by now if not for actions taken by ORA and our members. In the fall of 2011, ORA was...

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Ivanhoe River Environmental Report – The Chute and Third Falls – ORA Part II...

Excerpt: Healthy rivers are vital to our survival on this planet. Damming rivers to provide income for this generation is short-sighted and ill-advised, and will diminish a life-giving resource that...

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10 Ontario Rivers Protected from 19 Hydroelectric Projects

MEDIA RELEASE:  For Immediate Release:  13 July 2016 10 Ontario Rivers Protected from 19 Hydroelectric Projects SUDBURY:  The Ontario Rivers Alliance (ORA) is celebrating a major victory in the...

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Terminated FIT Contracts

The Ontario Rivers Alliance filed a Freedom of Information Application with the IESO in February of 2016 to obtain the following list of terminated Feed-in-Tariff Contracts: Download (PDF, 1.82MB)...

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Ivanhoe River & Frederick House River – MECP Decision on ORA’s Part II Order...

After reviewing the Project documentation, the issues raised by the requesters, and the outstanding concerns of technical staff, the MECP has determined that the project has not met the requirements...

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ORA Celebrates 10 years of Service to Ontario Rivers

A presentation made by the Chair at ORA’s 16 October 2021 Annual General Meeting: 2021-ORA-AGM-10yrs-Web-Final_compressed   The post ORA Celebrates 10 years of Service to Ontario Rivers appeared first...

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