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Trails association wants to ban off-highway vehicles

Morning File, Wednesday, December 19, 2018

December 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Mill wins temporary injunction “A setback for the ‘No Pipe’ movement and a victory for the Pictou County pulp mill yesterday,” reports Jennifer Henderson. “Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge Denise Boudreau granted Northern Pulp a temporary injunction to prevent local fishermen from continuing with blockades she ruled interfered with a vessel […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Murnaghan, ATVs, Bay Ferries, Catherine Tully, Halifax Regional Trails Association (HRTA), Heritage Advisory Committee, Justice Heather Perkins McVey, Larry Haiven, Lloyd Hines, Louie Lawen, Margaret Marshall Saunders, Marie Henein, Michael Gorman, Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs), Potemkinvile, Rouvalis family, Spring Garden development, Tim in a hoodie, Tom Parry, Tom Servaes, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Yarmouth ferry costs

Fool’s Gold

Nova Scotia's Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals (Part 4)

June 13, 2018 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the fourth and final instalment in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. How the mining lobby is working to undermine environmental protection in Nova Scotia On a cold day in late November […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Amanda Rekunyk, Anaconda Mining, Atisthan Roach, Barry Carroll, Black Point Aggregates, Brian Fogarty, Bruce Nunn, Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP), Dawson Brisco, Don James, Donkin coal mine, Elder Elizabeth Marshall, Erdene Resources Development Corp., Fogarty’s Cove, Fool’s Gold part 4, Frank Fogarty, Frank Leith, Garnet Rogers, Gordana Slepcev, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Joan Baxter, John Perkins, June Jarvis, Justin Brake, Kameron Collieries, Kellys Mountain, Kluscap Mountain, Lloyd Hines, MANS, Mark Parent, martin Mariette Materials, Mike MacDonald, mining lobby, Morien Resources, NS Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Peter Oram, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Plourde, Rodney MacDonald, Sean Kirby, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Stan Rogers, Stantec, Suzanne Patles, Vulcan Materials Company, Whites Point Quarry

Fool’s Gold

Nova Scotia's Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals (Part 3)

May 30, 2018 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the third in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. Cobequid Gold and Tatamagouche water The news broke in November 2017 on the front page of the free monthly community paper, The Tatamagouche […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Bruce Nunn, Carrie Miller, Cobequid Gold and Tatamagouche water, Cobequid Hills, Cobequid Mountains, Councillor Mike Gregory, David Blair, Department of Environment, Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Deputy Mayor Bill Masters, DNR Deputy Minister Julie Towers, Donald James, Fool’s Gold part 3, French River Water Management Plan, French River watershed, Garth DeMont, Geoffrey Baldwin, Gregor Wilson, Jim Bezanson, Joan Baxter, John Drage, John Perkins, KMKNO Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative, Lloyd Hines, Melissa Nevin, Michael Allen, Minerals Incentive Program, Mining Watch Canada, Minister Margaret Miller, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Raissa Tetanish, Ramsey Hart, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Swan’s maple Products, Tatamagouche Water Utility, Trevor McHattie, Troy Sawler, Ugo Lapointe, Warwick Mountain Gold, Wentworth Valley

Biomass, Freedom of Information, and the Silence of the DNR Company Men

Part 5: Publicly funded information — not available to Nova Scotians — was provided to pipeline company based in Texas.

February 8, 2017 By Linda Pannozzo 8 Comments

Documents show that the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources provided publicly funded forest age class data, currently being withheld from the public, to Texas-based Bear Paw Pipeline Corporation Inc., a firm set to build a natural gas pipeline in DNR Minister Lloyd Hines’ riding of Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie. In December 2016, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE) […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Bear Paw Pipeline Corporation Inc., Bruce Nunn, culture of transparency, Data Sharing Agreement, Ghislain Pitre, Lloyd Hines, Mary Kennedy, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Nova Scotia Environment, Open Data Portal, Sara Wallace, Stantec Consulting Ltd.

Muzzling the Forest Keepers

A Field Guide to Boreal Felt Lichen and DNR Message Control

November 4, 2016 By Linda Pannozzo 9 Comments

Endangered boreal felt lichen. Photo courtesy Brad Toms. A redacted email exchange recently obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that on November 7, 2014, Allan Eddy, the associate deputy minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, was not happy with something he had just seen. Eddy was attending the annual science conference […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, Andrew Fedora, Bob Bancroft, boreal felt lichen, Brad Toms, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, COSEWIC, David Richardson, Deep Cove, DNR, East Coast Environmental Law, Frances Anderson, Global Forest Watch, Irwin Brodo, Jason Hollett, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lloyd Hines, Mark Elderkin, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Michael Pickup, MTRI, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Robert Cameron, SARA, Sherman Boates, Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve, Species at Risk Act, Tom Duck, Wolfgang Maass

Forest Tragedy

How the forest industry and compliant bureaucrats hijacked the public will

September 13, 2016 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

They were heady days. It was spring of 2008 and citizens started gathering in droves in community halls to talk about why the natural world mattered to them. A few months earlier Conservative Natural Resources Minister David Morse announced that Voluntary Planning would lead a year of independent public consultations on the province’s minerals, forests, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, biomass, Bob Bancroft, Bowater, Bruce Nunn, Charlie Parker, clearcutting, David Morse, Department of Lands and Forests, DNR, Donna Crossland, Doug Macdonald, Ike Barber, John MacDonell, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lloyd Hines, Matt Miller, Nancy McInnis Leek, Natural Resources Strategy, Nova Forest Alliance, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association, Peter Woodbridge, Raymond Plourde, Wade Prest

Friday on my mind: Morning File, Friday, August 5, 2016

August 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Prison deaths “Two Newfoundland families have launched negligence lawsuits against Correctional Service Canada over the separate deaths of two women in a Nova Scotia penitentiary, alleging the prison failed to provide proper physical and mental health care in both cases,” reports Michael Tutton for the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, Camille Strickland-Murphy, Claudette Frizzell, Correctional Service Canada, Craig Robert Burnett, George Armoyan, Graham Steele, Lisa Roberts, little brown bats, Lloyd Hines, Michael Tutton, Moira Donovan, Morning File, Nova Institution for Women, RCMP Operational Communications Centre, sexual assaults by cab drivers, Tourism Nova Scotia, Veronica Park

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Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitz More about the Examiner.

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