Love My Lake Declaration
Support our efforts to protect nature across Canada!
Do You Love Lakes and Other Waterscapes?
If so, we’d like you to declare your love! Share your passion for our treasured waterscapes by signing Canada's first Love My Lake Declaration!
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Loving Our Lakes!
Lakes and other water bodies hold a special place in the Canadian identity. They are important to all Canadians in some way.
What comes to mind when you hear the words: lake, river, or wetland…?
Do you recall memories of swimming, fishing, paddling, camping, boating, or just relaxing by the water?
Wasting Lakes?
How are Canada’s lakes and other water bodies being wasted? They’re being used as toxic waste dumps by the mining industry.
And this isn’t being done in secret.… In fact, it’s perfectly legal.
Did you agree to this wasting of lakes and other water bodies?
Our Campaign
Wasting lakes – An appropriate practice?…
Nature Canada and other organizations are growing increasingly concerned that wasting natural water bodies is becoming a normal part of business for metal mining companies, period.
Canadians have observed significant expansion of the Schedule 2 list since it was first created in 2002 – even though it was never supposed to grow beyond 5 water bodies!
Messages
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The Water Footprint of Many Metals
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Allan Casey’s opinion piece, Lake Killing Made Easy
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Canadians Oppose Turning Lakes into Dumps, Even at Expense of Jobs, According to National Poll
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Help Put a Face on Canada’s Lakes
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Lakes and other water bodies hold a special place in the Canadian identity. They are important to all Canadians in some way.
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Despite their cultural and ecological importance, Canadian lakes are facing a growing threat.
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Canadians can declare their love for lakes and their strong desire to have them safeguarded for future generations.
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The Water Footprint of Many Metals
During Canada’s 2nd annual Water Week (CWW) between March 19th and 25th, we were asked to discover our respective water footprints. As part of national celebrations, Nature Canada staffer Alex MacDonald published a guest post on the CWW Our Living Water blog.…
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Allan Casey’s opinion piece, Lake Killing Made Easy
There was lots of great water-related press during Canada’s 2nd annual Water Week – including Allan Casey’s piece on the Schedule 2 Loophole, which he calls a “reg gone rogue”. It appeared in The Tyee and The Epoch Times, and here it is again for your reading pleasure!…
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Canadians Oppose Turning Lakes into Dumps, Even at Expense of Jobs, According to National Poll
Canadians Oppose Turning Lakes into Dumps, Even at Expense of Jobs, According to National Poll
Federal Government move to expand legal loophole at odds with public sentiment
April 12, 2012 (Ottawa)… Canadians overwhelmingly oppose a legal loophole that permits metal mining companies to dump mine waste into natural lakes, according to a Léger Marketing national opinion poll. -
Help Put a Face on Canada’s Lakes
Canadians love their lakes. It’s where we unwind on a hot summer day, it’s the backdrop of our first camping trip, first kiss, first fishing trip. Lakes and other water bodies hold a special place in the Canadian identity. They are important to all Canadians in some way.…
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Lakes and other water bodies hold a special place in the Canadian identity. They are important to all Canadians in some way.
Lakes are important to all Canadians in some way.
Lakes provide important habitats for wildlife, including fish, bird, plants, insects, and bigger creatures like moose.
Lakes provide important ecosystem services like opportunities for recreation, sites for cottages and camping, provision of drinking water, fishing and hunting opportunities, birding and wildlife viewing, tourism and other benefits to society.… -
Despite their cultural and ecological importance, Canadian lakes are facing a growing threat.
Canadian lakes are facing a growing threat.
Canada’s government is allowing a growing number of lakes to be converted into industrial waste dumps under part of a federal regulation called the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations….
This regulation creates a national list of lakes that will become industrial waste dumps. -
Canadians can declare their love for lakes and their strong desire to have them safeguarded for future generations.
Canadians can send a message to safeguard waterscapes for future generations.
Canadians want to leave our lakes in even better condition than we inherited them, so future generations can benefit from them too.
We encourage all Canadians to publicly affirm their love for this country’s lakes by signing the national Love My Lake Declaration….
