News 1. ExxonMobil continues plans to shutter the offshore Yesterday, ExxonMobil asked the Utilities and Review Board (UARB) for permission to shut down and abandon its Point Tupper Fractionation Plant. This follows a March application to the National Energy Board to close and abandon the Goldboro Gas Plant. ExxonMobil says the Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP) is “in […]
Examineradio 149: Linda Pannozzo on the Northern Pulp mill
This week, journalist Linda Pannozzo discusses her latest investigation into the Northern Pulp mill. Plus, we discuss the convention centre, racism reports at schools and Abdoul Abdi. (Direct download) (RSS feed) (Subscribe via iTunes)
Examineradio, episode #144: Joan Baxter and The Mill
This week we speak with Joan Baxter, author of The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest, about the Northern Pulp Mill, provincial forestry practices, the threat to the Northumberland Strait lobster fishery, and what it’s like having a big corporation shut down your book signing. Also: what’s with the Jamie Baillie resignation? (Direct download) […]
All the woes of the world: Morning File, Wednesday, January 24, 2018
News 1. Mainstreets Plan “Sometime in the 70s we should have hit peak ‘designing for the car’ days, because it was around then that people started to realize the pickle we were getting ourselves into by doing strictly that,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: But the reality is we just kept designing that way for […]