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Bright blue sky over a clearcut area in Port Wallace in July 2022, with logs and brush lying on the ground and one remaining tree in the middle of the cleared area that will become Clayton Developments' "Parks of Lake Charles." Photo contributed.

Port Wallace development steamrolls ahead over concerns about poisoning of Barry’s Run and Lake Charles

by Joan Baxter November 4, 2022November 9, 2022

Planners and environment scientists cite risks of the project that is just downstream from Nova Scotia’s most contaminated site at Montague Mines, and about how the development will affect traffic on Waverley Road.

This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.

Commentary

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022

This map from Calyton Developments 2021 presentation shows the location of and proposed Port Wallace subdivision with Barry's Run owned by HRM in the middle, and Montague Gold Mines upstream across Highway 107 (Forest Hills Parkway), and the only road access is from Waverley Road

City Hall, Commentary, Province House

Fast-tracking Port Wallace development threatens Lake Charles and health of future residents

by Joan Baxter July 4, 2022January 9, 2023

An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water

Mining

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022

Province House

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022

This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Mining

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

by Joan Baxter February 10, 2022January 29, 2023

The Killag River is an important part of the West River Sheet Harbour watershed, important wild Atlantic salmon habitat, and this photo shows the Killag River just a ston's throw downstream from the site of the proposed Beaver Dam open pit gold mine. Photo: SImon Ryder-Burbidge

Mining

Millbrook First Nation to Atlantic Gold and government regulators: “We oppose the Beaver Dam mine project”

by Joan Baxter January 21, 2022November 22, 2022

A sign that was erected near Tatamagouche saying "No Goldmine in our Watershed" after word emergegd that the province wanted to promote mineral exploration in the area. Photo contributed.

Commentary

The “Right to Know” in Nova Scotia often goes right to “no”

by Joan Baxter September 23, 2021November 22, 2022

A photo of Province House on a sunny day, taken from an angle. The building is a stately four story pale stone building crowned with flagpoles.

Environment

Provincial budget update: increased surplus and debt reduction, but also large bills for cleaning up historic toxic mines and the Yarmouth ferry

by Jennifer Henderson July 25, 2019December 7, 2022

The tailings facility at the Touquoy gold mine. A series of covered pools sit in the middle of a snow covered landscape.

Province House

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

by Joan Baxter March 15, 2019November 10, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

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.

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

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

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

Tag: arsenic

Port Wallace development steamrolls ahead over concerns about poisoning of Barry’s Run and Lake Charles

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

Fast-tracking Port Wallace development threatens Lake Charles and health of future residents

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Millbrook First Nation to Atlantic Gold and government regulators: “We oppose the Beaver Dam mine project”

The “Right to Know” in Nova Scotia often goes right to “no”

Provincial budget update: increased surplus and debt reduction, but also large bills for cleaning up historic toxic mines and the Yarmouth ferry

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty