Ever wonder about the ecological footprint of traditional burials with all those heavy-duty embalming chemicals, cement, steel or fiberglass vaults and finished caskets? Or the amount of carbon emitted if you choose to be cremated?

Despite on-going legal challenges, lingering questions regarding its economic viability, as well as damaging environmental impacts, construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) has started.

The privately-owned Haliburton Forest covers some 100,000 acres within Halliburton County, an area just under half the size of the City of Toronto with 100 lakes within its boundaries.

In today’s world we have come to expect that when we go to our local grocery store we will be able to get almost any fruit or vegetable that the world has to offer, even though they are not in season where we live. We also expect fruits and vegetables that would never be grown here in Canada.

On this episode of Planet Haliburton we feature a full length interview with Paul MacInnes, Chair of the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners’ Associations (CHA), the driving force behind the Love Your Lake Healthy Shorelines Project and the newly issued Lake Health Report.

Dysart Township’s Environment and Climate Change Committee, chaired by Ward 4 Councillor, John Smith, has been taking on some hot local environmental challenges recently, ranging from a new Fireworks Control Bylaw to Ontario Hydro’s herbicide spraying program along electrical transmission corridors.

Confused by all the conflicting claims about the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) Project?

While most environmental legislation passed by the former Liberal government has been unceremoniously trashed, the Waste Free Ontario Act has survived … so far.

With the one-year anniversary of Doug Ford’s election as Premier coming up on June 8, 2019, the next episode of Planet Haliburton takes a hard look at Ford’s environmental agenda and growing legacy, with Dianne Saxe, the former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.

Ever wonder about the ecological footprint of traditional burials with all those heavy-duty embalming chemicals, cement, steel or fiberglass vaults and finished caskets? Or the amount of carbon emitted if you choose to be cremated?