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Updated: Photos suggest that there is a tailings leak at Atlantic Gold’s Moose River gold mine

August 29, 2021 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

Latest update: On Monday morning (Aug. 30), we published an update (below) with a statement from Dustin O’Leary, spokesperson for Atlantic Gold and Atlantic Mining NS, subsidiaries of the Australian company St Barbara that owns the open pit Touquoy gold mine in Moose River, HRM. O’Leary stated that “there is no leak of any kind […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: acid mining drainage, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Beaver Dam, Cochrane Hill, Dustin O’Leary, environmental charges, Fifteen-Mile Stream, French River watershed, French Rivert watershed, Joan Kuyek, John Perkins, Kitco, leak, Meryl Jones, MiningWatch Canada, minister of environment and climate change, Moose River gold mine, Mount Polley, No Open Pit Excavation (NOPE), Nova Scotia Environment, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Rachel Boomer, Scott Beaver, Sherbrooke, St Barbara Ltd, St. Mary’s River Association, Steven Emerman, tailings dam leak, tailings facility, Tatamagouche, Tim Houson, Touquoy gold mine, Tracy Barron, Vladimir Basov, Warwick Mountain

Survey says: Why are people calling me with pro-mining propaganda?

February 5, 2020 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

It looks as if someone is getting a little nervous about the growing backlash to the latest gold rush in the province, and to the development of new open pit gold mines along the Eastern Shore, particularly the proposal by the Australian company St. Barbara, which acquired Atlantic Gold in July last year for $722 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Archibald Lake Wilderness Area, Atlantic Gold, Cochrane Hill gold mine, Environment Minister Gordon Wilson, Friends of St. Mary’s River, gold mining, Margaret Anne McHugh, Margaret Brigley, Moose River Consolidated Project, Narrative Research Poll, No Open Pit Excavation (NOPE), Paul Sobey, St Barbara

Roughed up by the RCMP at a public meeting, John Perkins sues Atlantic Gold and the cops

August 13, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

Sixty-eight-year-old John Perkins of Earltown is striking a blow for democracy after he says he was forcibly hauled out of a public meeting by an RCMP officer last May. Perkins held a news conference in Halifax yesterday to explain why he is filing a lawsuit against Atlantic Gold Corporation which hosted two information sessions on […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Gold information session, Brian Hebert, Cochrane Hill gold mine, Dustin O’Leary, East Coast Environmental Law Association (ECELAW), Ecology Action Centre (EAC), John Perkins, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Lisa Mitchell, Maryse Belanger, No Open Pit Excavation (NOPE), Police Act of Nova Scotia, Ray Plourde, RCMP Civilian Complaints Commissioner, RCMP officer Justin Greene, Scott Beaver, St. Barbara Limited, St. Mary’s River Association (SMRA), Steven Dean, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Terry Moser

St. Barbara still intends to acquire Atlantic Gold

The violent arrest of John Perkins has put the critical spotlight on gold mining on the Eastern Shore, but for the mining companies, operating in low-regulation and low-royalty Nova Scotia is, well, a gold mine.

June 3, 2019 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

St. Barbara Limited, the Australian gold mining company that recently announced it was acquiring Atlantic Gold in a $722 million dollar deal, seems to be unfazed by the RCMP’s violent arrest of a citizen last week at a public information session Atlantic Gold was hosting in Sherbrooke (covered by the Halifax Examiner here and here). […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Andrew Bell, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Gold and RCMP, Atlantic Gold information session, Ben Wilson, Bonnie Sutherland, David Brady, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Extractive Industries Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA), gold mining, John Perkins, Lee Millett, Lisa Croteau, Maryse Belanger, Mining Journal, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, No Open Pit Excavation (NOPE), Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Paul Sobey, Pieridae Energy, Sobey family, St. Barbara Limited, Steven Dean, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Tony Woodfine

Friends of St. Mary’s River say “NOPE” to Atlantic Gold

January 25, 2019 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

For many years, when the St. Mary’s River Association (or SMRA) held meetings in Sherbrooke on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore, the group members’ purpose was primarily to report on the headway they were making in their efforts to achieve their vision of “Health for our river, the Atlantic salmon and our community.” Members would gather […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: 15-Mile Stream, Archibald Lake, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Atlantic Salmon Federation, Beaver Dam Cross Road, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), Cochrane Hill, Dustin O’Leary, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Glenelg Lake, Gwen Boutilier, Kris Hunter, Lewis Hinks, McKeens Brook, Moose River, Moose River Consolidated Project, Mooseland Road, No Open Pit Excavation (NOPE), Nova Scotia Salmon Association, salmon fishing, Scott Beaver, Sherbrooke, Southern Upland Atlantic Salmon, St. Mary’s Education and Interpretive Centre, St. Mary’s River Association (SMRA), Steven Dean, Touquoy mine, toxic tailings, West River Sheet Harbour project

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

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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