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EverWind Fuels’ ‘green hydrogen and ammonia’ project in Nova Scotia will be partly powered by coal

by Joan Baxter September 19, 2022January 3, 2023

This article, the first in a two-part series the Halifax Examiner is co-publishing with The Energy Mix, is about the “green hydrogen and ammonia” project that EverWind Fuels has proposed for Point Tupper in Nova Scotia. A green ammonia facility planned in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia is being touted as a blessing for the province’s […]

A shea tree growing in a arid landscape under a bright blue sky.

Mining

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

by Joan Baxter February 13, 2022November 22, 2022

The deep crater of the open pit at the Touquoy gold mine shows roads spiralling down to the creater bottom. Photo contributed.

Mining

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

by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022January 29, 2023

An attractive path through a wooded area near the site of the proposed Beaver Dam mine. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Mining

Expansion of gold mining on the Eastern Shore meeting with stiff resistance

by Joan Baxter November 26, 2021November 22, 2022

Mining

Atlantic Gold’s imaginary conservation land

by Joan Baxter May 20, 2021November 22, 2022

Mining

Atlantic Gold plans to mine “paradise”

by Joan Baxter March 21, 2021November 22, 2022

Mining

Moose River betrayal

by Joan Baxter April 3, 2020November 15, 2022

Business and Development

A community rallies to save Owls Head

by Suzanne Rent February 4, 2020November 5, 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

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.

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.

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EverWind Fuels’ ‘green hydrogen and ammonia’ project in Nova Scotia will be partly powered by coal

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

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

Expansion of gold mining on the Eastern Shore meeting with stiff resistance

Atlantic Gold’s imaginary conservation land

Atlantic Gold plans to mine “paradise”

A community rallies to save Owls Head

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

Horsewoman in training: Learning to ride a horse is all about training the human

Councillor quits Peggy’s Cove Commission over ‘unfair and unreasonable position of conflict’

Dartmouth shelter to close next week, leaving residents scrambling to find housing

While Demario Chambers waited over three years for justice, the cop who beat him up was paid more than $300,000 for doing no work at all

Halifax EPA pens letter to premier asking him to intervene in school support workers strike