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Forest Confidential

An investigation into Nova Scotia’s biomass harvest data and how the numbers aren’t adding up

April 13, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 3 Comments

A few months ago I reviewed a film that has been circulating the province about the growing use of forest biomass as a form of so-called renewable energy. The film — Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? — reported on how the biomass industry sells itself as green by making two bogus claims: it uses […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: biomass, Bowarter Mersey mill, Brooklyn Power, Bruce Nunn, Cellufuel, Community Feed-in Tariff (COMFIT) Program, Danny George, David Rodenheiser, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), DRAX power station, Emera, energy wood, Enligna, forest bioenergy, forest harvest data, Forest Sustainability Regulations, Great Northern Timber (GNT), Halifax Port Authority, Hefler Forest Products, Jacques Lapointe, Jessica Gorton, Krista Higdon, Lane Farguson, Lisa Jarrett, Mary Booth, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Renewable Electricity Regulations, Partnership for Policy Integrity, PCC silicon metal production plant, Point Tupper, Port Hawkesbury paper (PHP), Premier Stephen McNeil, Registry of Buyers, Saving Iceland, Scotia Atlantic Biomass, Shaw Eastern Embers, Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP), Tony Mee, Utility and Review Board (UARB), WestFor consortium, woodchips

Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts

Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018

December 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biofuel, biomass, Brendan Elliott, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cathi Mullaly, Cellufuel, CTV advertorial, Dartmouth Crossing, David Patriquin, Emera, Emma Davie, Esquire, Global Forest Coalition, Halifax CFO, Jacques Dubé, Jane Fraser, JNET Communications LLC, John Traves, Lands and Forestry Department, Linda Pannozzo, Link Performing Arts Centre, Mary Campbell, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Paul Hollingsworth, Reverend Dr. David Jefferson Sr., Richard Starr, ServiCom, Zane Woodford

Cellufuel “pauses” operations at its Brooklyn demonstration plant

The start-up biofuel company has received at least $4.5 million in public money; the shut-down is temporary and just part how "innovation" works, insists president Chris Hooper.

July 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet

Cellufuel has stopped operating its Brooklyn biofuel plant, confirms company president Chris Hooper. “We’re pausing our operations,” Hooper said in a phone interview this morning. The plant will not operate “for the rest of the year,” he said. As Linda Pannozzo reported in May: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct [Bowater Mill...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cellufuel, Chris Hooper

PRICED OUT

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.

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!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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