In March 2020, the Halifax Examiner published the award-winning series, “Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy.” The three articles (available here, here and here) looked at Clayton Developments’ proposed new and massive subdivision for Port Wallace in Dartmouth, and serious concerns about the mercury and arsenic contamination from […]
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Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy
Part 3: Cleaning up the historic tailings from Montague Gold Mines – Does Port Wallace development hang in the balance?
This is the third and final article in a series about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Gold Mines in HRM — is affecting […]
Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy
Part 2: the suburb proposed to be built in the shadow of Montague Gold Mines
This is a story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting us today. This, the second in […]
Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy
Part 1: The making of a toxic mess and the uncalculated costs of previous gold rushes.
This is Part 1 of a three-part story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting lives today, […]
Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today
Morning File, Thursday, May 19, 2022
News 1. Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé to resign Halifax’s highest paid employee will be stepping down at year’s end. As Zane Woodford reports, Jacques Dubé, Halifax Regional Municipality’s chief administrative officer for nearly six years, will resign at the end of 2022. The news was shared in a release from the HRM. “Since September 2016, […]
There’s no meaning in mass murder
Morning File, Monday, May 16, 2022
News 1. Mass murders This morning, we published another article related to the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission, headlined “Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020.” In this article: • Did the killer listen in on the RCMP’s unencrypted radio calls? • Emergency Response Team had no GPS capability • […]
Weekend File
All the articles we published from April 11 to 14, 2022.
Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Monday, April 11 1. Northern Pulp is in a polluting league of its own Joan Baxter reported on a new study that shows the mill’s emissions […]
“My body, my choice” except if you have a uterus
Morning File, Thursday, April 14, 2022
News 1. Critics says PC Nova Scotia Power bill doesn’t have any teeth Jennifer Henderson was at the Standing Committee on Law Amendments yesterday where advocates had plenty to say about the Houston government’s Bill 147, which they say is poorly drafted and has no teeth to help low-income Nova Scotians or keep Nova Scotia […]
Province moves to speed up development approvals for 22,600 housing units in Halifax, but none of them are guaranteed affordable
Housing Minister John Lohr has designated nine “special planning areas” in the Halifax Regional Municipality, with the potential for a total of 22,600 residential units. This designation gives Lohr the authority for development approvals in those areas. The special planning areas are: former Penhorn Mall lands, 950 units Southdale/Mount Hope, 1,200 units Bedford West 10, […]
Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines
Anaconda Mining says the province indemnified it from any liabilities associated with the toxic historic tailings in Goldboro, and plans to mine around them, while Nova Scotians pay to clean them up.
The gold rush in Upper Seal Harbour near Goldboro began with the discovery of gold in 1892 by a fellow named Howard Richardson. For the next 65 years, gold miners dug rock out of the earth in what was known as the “Richardson Belt” on the banks of Gold Brook Lake in Guysborough County. […]