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Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

October 26, 2021 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

The Crown prosecutor handling the environmental prosecution against Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia, an affiliate of Atlantic Gold, has reached a tentative plea deal with the company. The deal: Atlantic Gold pays a $5,000 fine to the government, and makes a $120,000 donation to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association (NSSA). But NSSA won’t agree to it, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Mining NS, Atlantic salmon, Beaver Dam, Cochrane Hill, Fifteen-Mile Stream, Fisheries Act, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, Mike Bardsley, Mike Crosby, Moose River gold mine, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Nova Scotia Salmon Association, St Barbara, St. Mary's River, Touquoy open pit gold mine

Sacrificing wild Atlantic salmon for gold

A project that is undoing environmental damage from acid rain finds itself under threat from a gold mine proposed for Beaver Dam.

March 4, 2021 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

We’re standing on the snow-covered banks of the Killag River beside the lime doser, a white silo that has been calibrated with intricate controls to apply just the right amount of lime into the river every day. Edmund Halfyard, a biologist working with the Nova Scotia Salmon Association, tells me that the “right amount” — […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: acid rain, acidification, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Atlantic Salmon Federation, Atle Hindar, Beaver Dam, Cameron Flowage, Cochrane Hill gold mine, Craig Jetson, Dustin O’Leary, Edmund Halfyard, environmental charges, Fifteen Mile Stream mine, gold mine, Greenland, helicopter, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), Jeff Hutchings, Jillian Leonard, Keef Brook, Killag River, lime doser, liming, Marinette, Mi'kmaw Conservation Group, Mike Crosby, Moose River Consolidated Project, Moose River gold mine, Newfoundland, Northern Pulp, Northern Timber, Norway, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Salmon Association (NSSA), NS Department of Lands and Forestry, proposed Beaver Dam mine, smolts, Species at Risk, St Barbara Ltd, St. Mary's River, Tent Brook, Touquoy mine, Trout Nova Scotia, US Clean Air Act, West River Sheet Harbour, wild Atlantic salmon

PRICED OUT

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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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

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