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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 2 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

Halifax councillors should tell city staff to stop dithering and adopt a living wage policy already

Morning File, Monday, January 28, 2019

January 28, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Blackface Last Monday, some Dalhousie students protested at the welcoming reception for incoming interim president Peter MacKinnon. As I noted Tuesday, the students were particularly riled over MacKinnon’s book, University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus, which included a section that downplays and excuses the wearing of blackface while mischaracterizing and sidelining those who object […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: arsenic, Bernie Smith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Frances Willick, Halifax Port Authority, Halterm, Linda Campbell, living wage, Public Safety Strategy, Robyn Simon, Sebastien Labelle, The Bus Stop Theatre, United Way

Major League Ambition

If the Port of Halifax is going to compete in a post-Panamex world, it will need a new, larger container terminal. But a Port Master Plan is delayed, and myriad difficulties are posed by potential new sites for a terminal. That leaves a massive expansion of the existing HalTerm in the South End.

September 23, 2017 By Rick Grant

Halifax has been a player and leader in the container terminal business for nearly half a century, having opened one of the first container terminals on North America’s east coast back in 1969 — Halterm in the city’s South End. Thirteen years later, in 1982, a second was opened in Fairview Cove in the North...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Calvin Whidden, Ceres terminal, Evan Koronewski, Halifax Port Authority, Halterm, Harold Kenny, Hector Jaques, Jean Jacques Ruest, Karen Oldfield, Merle MacIsaac, Port of Halifax, Rick Grant, Wolfgang Schoch

Power Play: The Port of Halifax has supplied emergency generators for six employees’ private homes

January 23, 2017 By Rick Grant

Oh, to have a generator and power when the lights go out. Six Halifax Port Authority officials, which based on photographic evidence, recently included HPA’S President and CEO Karen Oldfield (2015 salary $370,000), need not worry. They keep their lights on and houses warm using emergency generators provided by their employer, the Halifax Port Authority....

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Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: generators, Halifax Port Authority, Karen Oldfield, Lane Farguson

The development boom’s echo: filling in Halifax Harbour

November 16, 2016 By Chris Lambie

In Halifax schools, children learn that the city has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It’s one of those motherhood statements that people repeat as a mantra when visitors come calling or businesses look at setting up shop here. So why are we filling it in? Since 2011, the Halifax Port Authority has...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Africville, Andrew Hebda, Bedford Basin, container ships, container terminal, DeWolf Park, Fairview Cove, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Frances Fares, Halifax Port Authority, Halifax Water, Irvine Carvery, King’s Wharf, Lane Farguson, Mark Currie, pyritic slate, Sackville Rivers Association, Sandra Banfield, Save the Bedford Waterfront Society, Sawmill River, Tony Henderson, Walter Regan, Waterfront Development Corporation

Triggerfish warning: Morning File, Tuesday, October 25, 2016

October 25, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

Good news! You can now link to any part of a Morning File post by simply scrolling past the headline or sub-headline you’re interested in, then copying the URL from your browser and posting it on Facebook or Twitter (or anywhere else) to share. Or, to put it a different way, you can now link to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Danny Cavanagh, Francis Campbell, Halifax Port Authority, Jim Spatz, Jonathan Riley, Lane Farguson, Lily MacLellan, Robert Fife, sick pay, Steven Chase, teachers strike, trees, triggerfish

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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