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Category: Natural Resources

Floating tidal generator in the bay. Sustainable Marine Energy Canada tidal generator
Posted inEnergy, Fishery, Technology

DFO offered tidal developer one-year lease for Minas Basin site

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 18, 2023May 25, 2023
Man with grey hair and mustache, wearing a worn blue baseball cap with a Montreal Canadiens logo, and a grey sweater, standing with his back to a green gate. There is a pile of freshly cut logs down a short dirt road leading into woods.
Posted inForestry

Post-tropical storm Fiona decimated Nova Scotia’s woodlots. These ecological foresters tell us what cleanup should look like.

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 16, 2023May 30, 2023
Man with short brown hair and beard, wearing a green zipped hoodie and khaki trousers stands in front of a vertical brown mass of soil and roots that is the upturned root system of a large tree felled by Fiona. Behind him are several more fallen hardwood trees.
Posted inForestry

Post-tropical storm Fiona decimated Nova Scotia’s woodlots. These ecological foresters tell us what cleanup should look like.

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 15, 2023May 30, 2023
Clearcut area atop a hillside in Wentworth Valley with wide treaded tracks in the soil through downed branches and remnants of trees with a small clump of green trees atop the hill under a pale sky.
Posted inClimate

Industrial logging is one of Canada’s largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions: report

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 4, 2023May 4, 2023
A red and white boat in the water.
Posted inEnergy, Fishery

DFO responds to Houston’s complaints that it killed tidal project

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 3, 2023May 10, 2023
White signboard reading Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation A Paper Excellence Company nestled in a leafy green grove of trees, surrounded and fronted by green hedges and a lawn.
Posted inProvince House

Court grants Northern Pulp 4-month creditor protection extension; company lists big demands for concessions from Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 1, 2023May 29, 2023
The sign at the main entrance to the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County identifies it as a Paper Excellence company. Photo Joan baxter
Posted inForestry

Northern Pulp wants to burn biomass and sell the energy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 28, 2023May 30, 2023
A swarm hundreds of silver baby eels or elvers swimming in the sea.
Posted inCommentary

DFO mismanages minor elver fishery into major crisis

by Stephen Kimber April 22, 2023April 23, 2023
Sign for Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation A Paper Excellence Company. Photo: Joan baxter
Posted inProvince House

Nova Scotia NDP to ask Natural Resources Committee to look into Paper Excellence

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 19, 2023May 19, 2023
A man in a suit carrying a chainsaw stands before a pile of logs as money floats down from the sky.
Posted inForestry

NDP Natural Resources critic Charlie Angus speaks about Paper Excellence

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

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A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.


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Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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