Submit your photos to oodmag.com/mbentry from April-September for a chance to win an Ontario OUT of DOORS + Yo-Zuri prize as part of our weekly Photo Friday contest.
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #ThunderBay #BlackBear #RainyRiver #YoZuri #Family #Contest #Winner
Paddlers Unite!
Boundary Waters are a fragile amazing wilderness area so protect it from a Chilean copper mine just upstream
#RainyRiver @lakesuperior.bsky.social
Call your congressional reps NOW
202-224-3121
Clean Water is Life!! 🌊🌊🛶🛶
jsonline.com/story/opinion/… via @journalsentinel
Long Sault Narrows ~Long Sault of the Rainy River. Canada left, US right. This is taken from Rainy River First Nations on the Canadian side of the international boundary.
#rainyriver #river #ziibing #canada #minnesota #ontario #riverscape #internationalborder #water #photography #naturephotography
and pollution.
Two crazy things ~
1. It’s a foreign company!
2. Only about 1% of the product is their goal!
The byproducts become tailings that will not be contained. It becomes sulfuric acid and will include release of mercury.
If you care about pristine ecosystems, #BWCAW #LOTW #RainyRiver
queticosuperior.org/twin-metals-...
0.04% of the extracted ore is copper.
The rest is cast off, when the sulfur in ore contacts air and water it becomes sulfuric acid.
When aquatic ecosystems become acidic they collapse/die.
Heavy metals - mercury also a product
#BWCA #LOTW #RainyRiver @SFBW
Good Morning, friend!
It’s WhoopWhoop Wednesday!
Please contact your Senators and Congresswomen and men.
A copper-sulfide mine is now expected to be allowed in the #SuperiorNataionalForest downstream of the #BWCAW #RainyRiver and #LakeOfTheWoods The mine has strong likelihood of polluting all 3.
Sadly, the last real photographs I took, were in the mid-90s. ☹️☹️😟
The old shack, was late-80s
#photography #rainyriver #Ontario #chess #knight
NORTHLAND FORECAST FOR DECEMBER 9, 2024:
A #storm system will bring a wet and heavy #snowfall to the northern half of the #Northland through Monday. Expect 4 to 12 inches for the #RainyRiver Basin and #Arrowhead regions.
#Temperatures will hold steady in the upper 20s and 30s, but a #breeze […]
CORR in temp closure hrs: #RainyRiver was able to reopen their ER for most of this past W/E (no thx to Sylvia Jones)
UPDATE: in 2024, temp ER closures in #ONTARIO are @ 6️⃣9️⃣3️⃣.2️⃣5️⃣ hours, perm closure/hour reduction in #Durham #Minden #Chesley #Clinton are @ 1️⃣0️⃣3️⃣1️⃣8️⃣hrs
#RainyRiver ER in #Ontario closed until Monday morning. Closest ER is over an hour away.
Sylvia Jones does not speak of these closures that we’re aware of. Ever.
We all matter or none of us do
#SavePublicHealthcare
The ER at Almonte General Hospital closed Jun6 at 7pm until jun7 at 7am. If you require immediate medical attention, call 911
#Almonte ER closed last night
#RainyRiver ER also but remains closed until further notice
Doug Ford on Feb9 said “I’m going to be zoned in on these emergency dept’s”
Instead he’s zoned out in #Muskoka
We all matter or none of us do
#SavePublicHealthcare
Rainy river health centre’s ER is closed for the foreseeable future. Emergencies will be rerouted through la verendrye hospital in fort Francis. Please call 911 for urgent medical assistance
Whilst Doug & Syl cannonball into summer vacay- this ….
First ER closure for #RainyRiver
Don’t know when they’ll reopen- we’ll keep a close eye
