Love My Lake Declaration and Video Declaration
Support our efforts to protect nature across Canada!
Do You Love Lakes?
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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Show Your Love for Lakes in a Video Declaration
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Nature Canada becomes a member of the Living Lakes Canada network!
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From The Water Chronicles: “Forget fracking – Watch out for lithium mining coming to a province near you”
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From Toxic By-product to Recycled Material: Mine Waste as a Revenue Stream – Part 2
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From Toxic By-product to Recycled Material: Mine Waste as a Revenue Stream
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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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Show Your Love for Lakes in a Video Declaration
Many of us have a favourite lake, river, pond or stream that holds a special place in our heart.
Send us a video that publicly declares your love for a lake, river, stream or any body of water that’s special to you. … -
Nature Canada becomes a member of the Living Lakes Canada network!
We are very happy to announce that Nature Canada recently joined the Living Lakes Canada family of organizations! As part of our national Stop Wasting Our Lakes efforts, we have been working with of our provincial partners in the Canadian Nature Network, as well as Living Lakes Canada, who we are working with to promote the national I Love My Lake declaration. …
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From The Water Chronicles: “Forget fracking – Watch out for lithium mining coming to a province near you”
By: Michel Ryan
Originally published at The Water Chronicles – Water.ca on 7/5/2012. Updated 7/9/2012. Republished with permission.…
A report recently obtained by Canada Free Press details how Canada’s Metal Mining Effluent Regulations measure up for addressing the extraction and development of rare earth metals and lithium resources at a time when the mining of these is expected to explode in Canada. -
From Toxic By-product to Recycled Material: Mine Waste as a Revenue Stream – Part 2
Guest blogger José Luis Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez shares his experience of working in the mining industry in the Canadian arctic. He explores an interesting alternative to storing mine waste in natural or man-made containment ponds that has had success in an Arizona mine. …
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From Toxic By-product to Recycled Material: Mine Waste as a Revenue Stream
Guest blogger José Luis Gutiérrez-García recently shared his experience of working in the mining industry in the Canadian arctic on Nature Canada’s blog. We’re happy to re-publish José…‘s series of posts here. He explores an interesting alternative to storing mine waste in natural or man-made containment ponds that has had success in an Arizona mine.
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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.…
