St Barbara Ltd, the Australian mining company that owns Atlantic Gold and Atlantic Mining NS, which operates the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River, is in trouble. This week, St Barbara’s share prices crashed 14% “to a multi-year low,” after the company released a statement that warns of “near-term risk of disruption” at...
Despite receiving Muskrat Falls power, Nova Scotia is still burning biomass for electricity
The Ecology Action Centre is urging the provincial government to rescind or revoke a directive to Nova Scotia Power to maximize the burning of biomass to generate electricity. That instruction was first given by the McNeil government in May 2020 after ongoing delays in receiving renewable energy from Labrador. “In January and again in March,...
Transport Canada received nearly 500 comments about Dartmouth Cove, but HRM missed the deadline
The federal government received nearly 500 comments about an application to infill part of Dartmouth Cove, but the municipal government missed the deadline. As the Halifax Examiner reported last month, a numbered company owned by Bruce Wood has applied to fill in part of Halifax Harbour at the cove with excavated rock from construction sites,...
Random thoughts on a random day in a random June
Whatever happened to Thursday? What's so affordable about so much housing? Why so little information about power company pay? And other thoughts on a June day.
Whatever happened to Thursday? On Thursday, the CBC’s Anjuli Patil reported the Houston government had decided not to release passenger numbers for our controversial, heavily subsidized Yarmouth-to-Bar-Harbor ferry. When asked directly about passenger numbers on Thursday, Minister of Public Works Kim Masland said the province won’t report those figures on a monthly basis. Instead, she said operator Bay...
The conservation officer shuffle: Houston government quietly moves inspection, enforcement and compliance officers out of Nova Scotia Environment and back to Natural Resources
There was no fanfare, not even a press release. But three months ago, Premier Tim Houston’s government quietly reversed a move made in 2016 by former Premier Stephen McNeil’s government that brought all the province’s conservation, inspection, enforcement, and compliance officers under one roof. According to Erin Lynch, spokesperson for Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR),...
When a worker dies, silence descends…
It's been a month since a Michelin worker died at the Waterville plant. Why don't we know more about what really happened? Will we ever?
I was curious. I thought I remembered seeing a brief news report last month about a man who’d died in an industrial accident at Michelin’s Waterville plant. The details I recalled were sketchy to non-existent, so I wanted to know what had been learned in the more than a month since the incident and get...
The “weird” legal mechanism being used by Northern Pulp in its $450 million lawsuit against Nova Scotia
Northern Pulp's biggest debt is a paper debt to its owner, Paper Excellence, and that indebtedness is being used to circumvent Nova Scotia's environmental laws.
This is the second of a two-part story examining how the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act is being employed in a lawsuit seeking $450 million from the province of Nova Scotia. Read Part 1 here. Three months before Mountain Equipment Co-op went to the British Columbia Supreme Court for creditor protection in 2020, Northern Pulp –...
The demise of Mountain Equipment Co-op could spell expensive trouble for Nova Scotia
In 2020, a federal law and a BC judge dismantled Mountain Equipment Co-op. Now, the same federal law that was used to destroy MEC is being cited by Paper Excellence in its $450 million lawsuit against the province of Nova Scotia related to the creditor protection of Northern Pulp. And the case is being heard by the same judge.
Mountain Equipment Co-operative is no more. In September 2020, Mountain Equipment Co-operative filed for creditor protection. A month later, a judge ordered that the co-ops’ assets be sold to a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, and Mountain Equipment Co-operative became Mountain Equipment Company. Now, the same federal law that was used to dismantle Mountain Equipment...
Committee recommends in favour of 26-storey downtown Dartmouth development
A city committee has given a 26-storey Dartmouth development its stamp of approval, but it has some notes on the public art proposed for the site. The Design Advisory Committee, tasked with reviewing development proposals submitted under the Centre Plan, met virtually on Wednesday, and considered a proposal for the block bounded by Williams, Faulkner,...
Halifax wins court battle over beach access in Cow Bay
The municipality has won its court battle to reopen a public path to a beach in Cow Bay. As first reported by the Halifax Examiner in March, Halifax Regional Municipality went to court seeking an order to restore a right-of-way across Ross Rhyno’s land to Silver Sands Beach: Over the past few years, as coastal...
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