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Pieridae wants $925 million from the Canadian government to jumpstart the Goldboro LNG plant

March 15, 2021 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Pieridae Energy, the company behind the proposed Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) plant to be located in Goldboro, Nova Scotia, has asked the Canadian federal government for $925 million in grants, loans, or loan guarantees to jumpstart the project. The ask was made through a PowerPoint presentation last December, and was apparently part of a lobbying […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News

Judge: Extinction Rebellion protestors are “well-intentioned and play a role in our modern-day democracy”

Blockades of logging roads in Digby county were intended to protect Mainland Moose habitat.

March 11, 2021 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Kevin Coady has granted WestFor Management a permanent injunction to prevent Extinction Rebellion protesters from blockading roads to licensed harvesting sites at Rockypoint Lake and Napier Lake in Digby County.  But Coady ruled against a request from the consortium of sawmills to broaden or extend that injunction to other sites […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News

No clear answers to clearcut questions

Officials from the Department of Lands & Forestry give only vague assurances that tighter logging rules will be applied, eventually.

March 11, 2021 By Jennifer Henderson

Which rules are going to apply to hundreds of harvests approved on Crown land during the 2.5 years since the Lahey Report came out: the Interim Guide in place today or new rules poised to be introduced that will force companies to take less wood and leave more trees behind to improve biodiversity? That’s an...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only

What’s environmentally wrong with clearcutting?

March 10, 2021 By Bob Bancroft 7 Comments

Classified as “Acadian,” most naturally-growing forests of Atlantic Canada contain a broad mix of trees with leaves (hardwoods) and with needles (softwoods). Each tree species has preferences regarding soil, moisture, and available light. Young sugar maple, yellow birch, hemlock, red spruce, and others can grow on the forest floor in the moisture and shade found […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured

More delays at Muskrat Falls hydro project

March 8, 2021 By Jennifer Henderson

The Muskrat Falls megaproject that is already more than two years late in delivering hydroelectricity to Nova Scotia needed to meet renewable energy goals has hit another series of speed bumps.  Work on the additional two generating units needed to deliver hydro from Labrador to Nova Scotia will take a month longer than forecast a...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only

Sacrificing wild Atlantic salmon for gold

A project that is undoing environmental damage from acid rain finds itself under threat from a gold mine proposed for Beaver Dam.

March 4, 2021 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

We’re standing on the snow-covered banks of the Killag River beside the lime doser, a white silo that has been calibrated with intricate controls to apply just the right amount of lime into the river every day. Edmund Halfyard, a biologist working with the Nova Scotia Salmon Association, tells me that the “right amount” — […]

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Greenwashing the goldfields

Atlantic Gold “partnership” with St. Mary’s University: Linda Campbell’s work is invaluable, so why is it a mining company supporting it, and not the government?

March 3, 2021 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

Saint Mary’s University professor Linda Campbell calls the announcement about a “five-year partnership” between the university and Atlantic Gold “big news.” Not everyone is pleased, however. Some who have been in touch with the Halifax Examiner have called it “greenwashing,” “terribly disappointing,” and “corporate capture of our universities.” One uses words not suitable for use […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News

The French Connection

People in southern France are battling pollution at a paper mill owned by a corporate behemoth: Paper Excellence Canada, the owner of the Northern Pulp Mill in Nova Scotia

February 24, 2021 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

They call their association the “Les Flamants Roses du Trébon” or LFRT (Flamingos of Trébon), and it’s a collective of residents in southern France who are fighting to have the six-decades-old Fibre Excellence Tarascon pulp mill in the province of Alpes-Côte d’Azur clean up its environmental act.  French media report that the mill is owned […]

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Nature Nova Scotia calls out province’s logging plan

February 22, 2021 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

“Disappointed.”  That’s the word that stands out in the submission by Nature Nova Scotia to the third version of forest management guidelines to implement ecological forestry or “a gentler touch” on harvesting Crown lands that are neither protected areas (absolutely no cutting) nor reserved for intensive cultivation by forestry companies.  These somewhere in-between Crown lands […]

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Atlantic Gold’s lobbying blitz

The company is now in court on charges of harming the environment, regulators are casting a wary eye at its plans for future environmental protection, and investors are getting worried, so Atlantic Gold has hired a lobbyist to fast track federal approval of its Nova Scotia projects.

February 5, 2021 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

Last year it was a propaganda blitz. For several weeks in the spring of 2020, Atlantic Gold, which operates an open pit gold mine in Moose River in the Halifax Regional Municipality and wants to open three more along the Eastern Shore, bombarded people in Nova Scotia with its PR. Atlantic Gold’s owner, Australia’s St […]

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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