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This is what environmental racism looks like: Lunenburg council wants Boat Harbour clean-up delayed

Morning File, Friday, August 2, 2019

August 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Boat Harbour clean-up “Fifty-two years of toxic sludge — enough to fill 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools to the brim. That’s the clean-up job now in the late planning stages for Boat Harbour,” reports Jennifer Henderson: Boat Harbour is an expanse of stanky brown holding ponds or “lagoons”  at an effluent treatment facility located […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Boat Harbour, Environmental Racism, Gayle Wilson, labour standards, Municipality of the District of Lunenburg (MODL), Northern Pulp cleanup, Nova Scotia workers

Boat Harbour: How to clean up a toxic soup

August 2, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Fifty-two years of toxic sludge — enough to fill 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools to the brim. That’s the cleanup job now in the late planning stages for Boat Harbour. Boat Harbour is an expanse of stanky brown holding ponds or “lagoons” at an effluent treatment facility located next-door to the Pictou Landing First Nation. “Nova...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Boat Harbour, Christine Skirth, Ken Swain, Northern Pulp cleanup, Nova Scotia Lands

Containing Northern Pulp’s mess

A half century of toxic waste in Boat Harbour, a leaky pipeline, and what happens next in the mill saga.

November 3, 2018 By Joan Baxter 8 Comments

The numbers are staggering. Over the past 51 years, the bleached kraft pulp mill on Abercrombie Point in Pictou County has piped about 1.25 trillion litres of toxic effluent into Boat Harbour.[1] That’s enough to fill about half a million Olympic-size swimming pools, or a pipeline one metre in diameter stretching about 1.6 million kilometres, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, Boat Harbour remediation project, Bruce Nunn, Chief Andrea Paul, Chief Dan Paul, Christine Skirth, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, GHD, Kathy Cloutier, Ken Swain, Mi’kmaq of Pictou Landing, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp cleanup, Northern Pulp effluent leak, Nova Scotia Environment, Nova Scotia Lands, Pictou County, Pictou Landing First Nation, Rachel Boomer, Stephen McNeil, Sydney Tar Ponds, William Palmer

News from the “under-explored global petroleum province”

Morning File, Tuesday, August 21

August 21, 2018 By Erica Butler Leave a Comment

Hi there. It’s Erica Butler at the Morningfile wheel again today. News 1. Justice department asked to please release documents, three years later The Nova Scotia justice department has been asked to release documents related to the death of Clayton Cromwell, who died of a methadone overdose in 2014 in custody at the Central Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: basic income pilot Ontario, Catherine L. Mah, Catherine Tully, Clayton Cromwell, Councillor Sam Austin, Devin Maxwell, Dexel Developments towers Spring Garden Road, Erica Butler, Harold and Michelle MacKay, John Gallant, Matt Higgs, Michelle Littlefield Bielaski, Morocco, motorcycle vehicle collision Main Street Dartmouth, Northern Pulp cleanup, Offshore Energy Research Association, Open Hydro, Premier Doug Ford, Saudi medical students exodus, shark video, Sherri Borden Colley, Steve Tonner, WingFest, Zane Woodford

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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