Media Release: Upcoming Event in Timmins: Learn About Environmental Issues and Your Environmental Rights

The Canadian Environmental Law Association, in conjunction with the Friends of the Porcupine River Watershed, will be providing a free session on environmental issues in Timmins and the ways you can get involved in environmental decision-making that affects your community.

The Friends of the Porcupine River Watershed is a local non-profit group dedicated to educating, influencing, promoting and supporting community-based stewardship of natural resources in the Porcupine River Watershed. Come out to learn about the Friends, their plans and goals, and how you can become involved with community-based stewardship in Timmins.

CELA staff will present on a number of topics, including:

• How indoor environmental contaminants, like radon, can affect your health
• Energy efficiency and retrofit programs, and other ways to keep energy costs down
• How to stay informed about local environmental issues, and how to get involved in land-use planning and other decisions that impact you

Date: Thursday August 9, 2018

Time: 3PM-4PM

Location: Ballroom A, Senator Hotel, 14 Mountjoy Street South

All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.