A handful of Colchester County residents will get their day in court next year to try and halt a one-year pilot project that would burn tires for fuel at the Lafarge Canada cement plant in Brookfield, 12 kilometres south of Truro, near Shortts Lake. Yesterday, in a process to set court dates, Lafarge lawyer John...
No date set for return of tidal turbine to the Minas Basin
The Bay of Fundy’s acclaimed “highest tides in the world” have long been a tourist attraction, but the powerful natural phenomenon is proving to be one of the most challenging places on Earth to produce electricity. On June 15, the Cape Sharp Tidal demonstration project retrieved its five-storey high turbine from the ocean floor before...
It’s getting easier to get out of town without a car
Parkbus and Trips by Transit make your car-free lifestyle worth living.
When it comes to living without a car, there’s the challenge of getting around the city, and then there’s the challenge of getting out of the city. In a province like Nova Scotia, not having access to a vehicle can rob you of some amazing experiences in our forests and along our coasts. That’s where...
City sues three companies over Metro Transit diesel spill
The lawsuit contains the most detailed account of the cause of the spill to date.
Halifax Regional Municipality is suing three companies for damages related to a spill of 200,000 litres of diesel fuel at the Burnside transit garage that has so far cost the city $2.6 million in cleanup and related costs. The lawsuit filed Monday names Redden Petroleum Enterprises, A & L Concrete Forming, and AMEC Foster Wheeler...
The cost of removing contaminated fill from the Queen’s Marque site has increased by $1 million
Originally budgeted at about $1 million, removing heavy metal-laden fill now is expected to cost $2 million, and the province is covering the bill.
Site remediation at the Queen’s Marque site is expected to cost $2 million — more than twice the $950,000 budgeted for it. The entire cost will covered by the provincial government. In 2010, the Waterfront Development Corporation announced that it had reached an agreement with the Armour Group for development of the Queen’s Landing site....
A new way to measure sprawl shines light on inequities and inefficiencies
People in Glen Arbour have four times as much road per capita than their Fairview counterparts
Some of HRM’s richest neighbourhoods are being subsidized by some of our poorest ones, according to a new analysis by urban planners Tristan Cleveland and Paul Dec which looks at census data, road costs, and road length per capita. The analysis brings to light systemic inequities, and also shows that on average, Halifax has been...
The new gas economy: the offshore, pipelines, and Alton Gas
Most of the natural gas used in Nova Scotia came from the Sable Island gas field. But now, as the offshore gas industry collapses, Heritage Gas is looking to increase sales and keep prices low by importing gas from the U.S. and western Canada to the Alton Gas storage project.
No one who keeps an eye on the Nova Scotia energy scene was surprised to learn that EnCana plans to halt production at its ill-starred Deep Panuke offshore gas development in two to three years. Not only was the project 10 years late and a billion dollars over budget, water problems have plagued it, reducing...
Building the Blue Route
Nova Scotia is constructing a 3,000 km bike route network, albeit very slowly
Last fall over 800 people showed up on Nova Scotia’s French Shore to ride the Gran Fondo Baie Sainte-Marie, a mass-start 35- to 120-kilometre-long bike tour along coastal and country roads between Yarmouth and Weymouth. This September, even more are expected to register for the event, now in its third year. On the south shore,...
DFO hasn’t decided whether to charge Nova Scotia Power for massive fish kill
"Tens of thousands" of fish died along the Gaspereau river because the utility increased the flow through the White Rock hydro station for the Rubber Duck Race.
Three weeks after fishermen reported a massive fish kill of gaspereau along the Gaspereau River near Wolfville, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans still has little to say about either the estimated size of the kill or whether charges will be laid against Nova Scotia Power under the federal Fisheries Act. The Act includes sections...
Blue Urbanism project shines a light on our harbour trash problem
On our current trajectory, by 2050 the amount of plastic in the ocean will match the amount of fish, by weight.
Last Sunday volunteers scoured the beaches of McNab’s Island in Halifax Harbour and filled 500 garbages bags with random bits of garbage from the shoreline. The Friends of McNabs Island Society has been organizing this cleanup since 1991, and president Cathy McCarthy estimates they have collected nearly 13,000 bags of garbage over the years from...
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