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Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation

After St Barbara Ltd issued a statement falsely blaming the province for permitting delays, its stock price fell by 14%.

June 25, 2022 By Joan Baxter

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...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Australia, Beaver Dam, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, CEAA, Craig Jetson, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, DFO, DNRR, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, environmental assessment, environmental charges, Fifteen-Mile Stream, Fisheries and Oceans, gold mine, Halifax Regional Municipality, IAAC, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, industrial approval, Moose River, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, NSECC, open pit gold mine, Papua New Guinea, Simberi, St Barbara Ltd, Steven Dean, tailings, tailings management facility, Touquoy

Despite receiving Muskrat Falls power, Nova Scotia is still burning biomass for electricity

June 24, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson

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,...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Allan Shaw, Bates White, biomass, Brooklyn Power, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), electricity generation, Emera, Emma Cochrane, GHG emissions, Joe Marshall, Justice Constance Glube, Maritime Link, Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative, Muskrat Falls, Nova Scotia Block and Supplemental Energy, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Port Hawkesbury Paper, Raymond Plourde, Tory Rushton, Wagner and Great Northern Timber

Transport Canada received nearly 500 comments about Dartmouth Cove, but HRM missed the deadline

June 22, 2022 By Zane Woodford

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,...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bruce Wood, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth Cove, Halifax Regional Municipality, Zane Woodford

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.

June 20, 2022 By Stephen Kimber

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...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only

The conservation officer shuffle: Houston government quietly moves inspection, enforcement and compliance officers out of Nova Scotia Environment and back to Natural Resources

June 15, 2022 By Joan Baxter

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),...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Atlantic bubble, Bob Bancroft, compliance, conservation, conservation officers, COVID, DNRR, Erin Lynch, fishing, forestry, hunting, inspection, Margaret Miller, moose, Natural Resources and Renewables, Nature Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia border, Nova Scotia Environment, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, NSECC, protected areas, provincial parks, Stephen McNeil, Tim Houston, wildlife

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?

June 12, 2022 By Stephen Kimber

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...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Labour, Politics, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Michelin, nova scotia department of labour, Westray Law, workplace deaths

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.

June 11, 2022 By Joan Baxter

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 –...

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Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: 1057863 B.C. Ltd., A’se’K, Anna Lund, AP&P, Asia Pulp & Paper, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, British Columbia, British Columbia Court of Appeal, British Columbia Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands, Bruce Chapman, Bujung Wahab, CCAA, Chinese banks, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, court monitor, creditor protection, creditors, debt agreement, Deloitte LLP, Deutsche Bank, Effluent Treatment Facility, environmental assessment, Environmental Racism, Erin Graces, Ernst & Young Inc, federal legislation, Hervey Investment BV (Netherlands), Howe Sound Pulp & Paper, Inter-corporate ownership, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, Justice Thomas Cromwell, Maurice Chiasson, MEC, mediation, Mountain Equipment Co-op, New York Stock Exchance, Northern Pulp, Nothern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, nova scotia supreme court, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corporation, Pictou Landing First Nation, pulp mill, Robert Grant, Saskatchewan, Sinar Mas Group, Singapore, Statistics Canada, The Wall Street Journal, Timothy Mapes, Widjaja family

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.

June 9, 2022 By Joan Baxter

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...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alvarez and Marsal, Anna Lund, Brandon Pullan, British Columbia Supreme Court, Companies" Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), David Smart, Harley Rustad, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, Kevin Harding, Kingswood Capital Management, Michael Parent, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), Mountain Equipment Company (MEC), Northern Pulp, Paper Excellence, Save MEC campaign, Yuill Herbert

Committee recommends in favour of 26-storey downtown Dartmouth development

June 9, 2022 By Zane Woodford

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,...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Ashlee Bevis, Boston Developments Ltd., Boston Ghosn, Centre Plan, Dartmouth, Design Advisory Committee, housing, Jeremy Ghosn, Mark Ghosn, Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC), Rimon Soliman, Sarah MacDonald, Sujana Devabhaktuni, Ted Farquhar, Thomas Gribbin, Vassilis Vassili, WM Fares, Zane Woodford

Halifax wins court battle over beach access in Cow Bay

June 6, 2022 By Zane Woodford

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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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: beach, Coun. Becky Kent, Cow Bay, Eastern Passage, Halifax Regional Municipality, Justice Denise Boudreau, Richard Harvey, Ross Rhyno, Silver Sands Beach, Zane Woodford

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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