Cambium Supports Eric Lindros Celebrity Hockey Classic
Eric Lindros Celebrity Hockey Classic Raising funds for Easter Seals - It's all about having fun and raising funds to help kids go to camp. Cambium’s Durham office was proud to sponsor a team in the 2017 Eric Lindros Celebrity Hockey Classic held at Iroquois Sports...
How Your Site Investigation Costs Can Save You Money: a Tax Lesson.
A site investigation is a necessary part of expanding facilities, buying new commercial property or constructing a new building altogether. Their purpose is to ensure a potential building site is safe for all potential users/occupants and that any and all...
Municipal GHG Challenge Fund Opening Doors to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new Municipal GHG Challenge Fund is a federally-funded and provincially administered program designed to help the province meet its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. This is an exciting opportunity for municipalities to receive substantial funding....
Using Landfill Sites to Save Pollinators
The world is experiencing a decline in pollinator species that is very troubling. Pollinators like bees, hummingbirds and butterflies are essential to both the natural and agricultural environments. Without pollinator species, we would experience severe food shortages...
What is a Circular Economy?
As the world population continues to grow, the world’s creation of waste (especially plastics) follows suit. As is common knowledge, plastics don’t decompose very quickly; some may even take tens of thousands of years. This poses a problem in terms of sheer volume:...
Soils Management – How it Affects your Project
Often unnoticed, overlooked and presumed innocuous soils are actually surprisingly important. Soils may have a substantial impact on your project; be it construction, remediation or improvement of existing property. As such it is important to understand the laws,...
Canada Day – the 150th Anniversary!
What's going on in Peterborough Peterborough will be celebrating Canada’s 150th this weekend, and there are lots of things to do! If you’re in the city the Canada Day Parade will be happening on the 1st at 12:00 noon starting at Murray Street and moving down George...
Incoming Changes to the Aggregate & Mining Industries
On May 10th Bill 39 received Royal Assent and became law in the Province of Ontario, becoming: "the Aggregate Resources (ARA) and Mining Modernization Act". The act was designed to increase growth and competition in the mining and aggregate industries while also...
Sweet Tunes and Fast Dragons – what’s going on in Peterborough this summer?
Dragon Races Grab some friends & paddles and gear up for Peterborough’s annual Dragon Boat Festival! Happening on Saturday, June 10 at Del Crary Park, the dragons are back on the water to compete in this fast-paced race to support breast cancer research, screening...
Aggregate Industry – Protection of Threatened Bank Swallow
Managing the protection of threatened Bank Swallows Ontario’s Bank Swallows are small nesting birds that historically make their homes in the sides of eroding cliffs, banks and hills. Included on the Ontario Species at Risk list, they are considered threatened for...