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Drone shot of a 2018 Westfor clearcut on crown land. Lake Rossignol can be seen on the top right.

Enviro groups call Sustainable Forestry Initiative ‘greenwashing’

by Joan Baxter December 5, 2022January 5, 2023

Eight environmental groups across Canada are asking the Competition Bureau of Canada to inquire into what they allege are “false and misleading” sustainability claims from the Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI) certification scheme.

Green Hydrogen International website pages on the "Spirit of Scotia" project in Nova Scotia shows a blue ocean vista with large wind turbines somewhere in the world, with the words "Positioning Nova Scotia as a global leader in green hydrogen production" in white letters on a black background.

Climate

‘Green’ hydrogen industry takes aim at Nova Scotia’s underground salt deposits

by Joan Baxter November 15, 2022November 30, 2022

Smiling Linda Campbell wearing a white cap with sunglasses on top, in a blue jacket with a blue and pink scarf at the site of the historic Montague Gold Mines in HRM.

Mining

Greenwashing the goldfields

by Joan Baxter March 3, 2021November 22, 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: greenwashing

Enviro groups call Sustainable Forestry Initiative ‘greenwashing’

‘Green’ hydrogen industry takes aim at Nova Scotia’s underground salt deposits

Greenwashing the goldfields

Health care administrative professionals rally across Nova Scotia demanding better pay

Halifax Transit delays coming as Cogswell project enters second phase

New building codes coming to Nova Scotia, but still concerns about meeting energy efficiency standard

Why you should care about the Crown’s problematic case against Randy Riley

Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask