CITY OF STRATFORD
E&E March meeting: climate action plan
Part II of the meeting Video can be found here. E&E Minutes - March 3, 2022Stratford's Declaration of a Climate Emergency, you'll remember, was made in February 2020. Very little has been accomplished since then. Two climate coordinators have collaborated on a...
E&E March meeting; how are other cities dealing with home heating retrofits?
Watch the meeting here. E&E Minutes - March 3, 2022 Part II of the meetingThe meeting began with an invited speaker, Chris Higgins, who is Senior Green Building Planner for the City of Vancouver. He discussed Vancouver’s low-rise residential building projects,...
We receive an embarrassing award
It was bound to happen. A Council who brought us the chaos of the RNG Plant, who worked behind closed doors to annex 175 acres of farmland in pretty dodgy circumstances, and who privately negotiated a polluting deal with a glass factory while publicly signing a...
Stratford’s climate coordinator packs her bags
There has been much delay and indecision in hiring climate coordinators in Stratford. The last coordinator, Rebecca Garlick, was unsure of her position during much of her tenure, and finally left. The contract renewal of our present coordinator, Amara Kartick, was...
E&E: Our official plan process begins
Thursday’s meeting of the Energy & Environment Committee began with a presentation on the upcoming review of the Official Plan, something Stratford is required to do every five years. Here is the link to the minutes: Here is the video of the meeting:Alyssa...
Climate change coordinator
January E&E
Where is our promised climate change coordinator? Thursday’s Energy & Environment meeting began with introductions and the election of officers; Jo-Dee Burbach will chair, and Emily Sheldon will be vice-chair. Two new members of the committee are Felicity...
Welcome to Glasstown
As we take time for family and the Holidays, we know we are under the shadow of something that could permanently change our town. I hope this will not come to pass, and I think we need to consider the root cause of this threat. It’s not a mayor with political...
An unfortunate series of events
Stratfordians may be isolated in this time of Covid, but we're sure hearing from each other. If you don't know about the protests over the Ford Government's imposition of a Minister's Zoning Order on our city, you must have superhuman social distancing powers....
What we know about the Xinyi glass plant
We’ve been hearing about this project for a while. The 100-metre smokestack, the 1.6 million litre per day water usage, the dormitory for foreign workers, the possible contamination of our air and water, the destruction of farmland. But it seemed to have gone away,...