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A potent human carcinogen found in Lafarge Brookfield’s cement kiln dust is making its way onto Nova Scotia’s farm fields

The Halifax Examiner raised the issue about N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) with the two federal departments with mandates to protect the environment and ensure food safety. Here are their responses.

June 15, 2021 By Linda Pannozzo 4 Comments

For background on this story, here are Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this three-part series.  The Halifax Examiner has received responses from two federal departments involving the presence of a potent human carcinogen in Lafarge Brookfield’s cement kiln dust (CKD) — a product that is being sold as an agricultural soil amendment and is spread […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: Aerotech Park, alternative fuels, ash residuals, Bath plant, biosolids, Brookfield plant, CABOT (Citizens Against the Burning of Tires), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, carcinogens, cement kiln dust, Concrete Capture, dewatered sludge, Douglas Hallett, Environment and Climate Change (ECCC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), environmental review tribunal, Fred Blois, Gord Downie, Hagersville tire fire, human carcinogen, Lafarge Brookfield, LaFarge Canada, limestone derivative, Linda Pannozzo, Lydia Sorflaten, N-Nitrosodimethylamine, NDMA, Nova Scotia Environment, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Robert Cumming, scrap tires, tire burning, tire-derived fuel, tires, toxicological assessment, toxicologist, Tragically Hip, US Environmental Protection Agency, World Health Organization (WHO)

Brookfield residents ask court to consider new tire-burning evidence

December 15, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

“I say to the Dept of Environment: Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?” Lydia Sorflaten was a talking about an affidavit by an internationally-known toxicologist expert who accuses the province of applying the wrong scientific data to approve a one-year pilot project to burn tires at the Lafarge cement...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Citizens Against the Burning of Tires (CABOT), Douglas Hallett, Ecology Action Centre, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Fred Blois, Jennifer Henderson, John Keith, Justice Denise Boudreau, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Lydia Sorflaten, Sean Foreman

Brookfield residents go to court to stop tire burning at Larfarge

September 5, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

A handful of Colchester County residents will get their day in court next year to try and halt a one-year pilot project that would burn tires for fuel at the Lafarge Canada cement plant in Brookfield, 12 kilometres south of Truro, near Shortts Lake. Yesterday, in a process to set court dates, Lafarge lawyer John...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Allan Sorflaten, Bill Mahody, C&D Recycling, Dan Chassie, Environment Minister Rankin, Fred Blois, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Harpell, John Keith, Judge Patrick Duncan, Kendall McCulloch, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Lydia Sorflaten, Sean Foreman, Supreme Court Justice Josh Arnold

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

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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