1. Bus Rapid Transit “Citizens gathered Monday afternoon and evening to look at preliminary sketches of what a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network might look like for Halifax,” reports Halifax Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler. “Or did they? The citizens were there, but I’m not entirely sure what they were looking at amounts to BRT.” […]
The Northern Pulp Mill pollution plan may be an economic disaster in the making: Morning File, Wednesday, February 14, 2018
1. Dirty Dealing, part 2 Right now, as we publish, Frances Martin, the Deputy Minister of the Department of the Environment, is appearing before the legislature’s Public Accounts committee, where she is being asked about the Environmental Assessment for Northern Pulp Mill’s plan to discharge mill effluent into the Northumberland Strait. The Northumberland Strait is […]
Dirty Dealing
Part 2: Wading Through the Quagmire of Northern Pulp’s Fast-tracked Environmental Assessment
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveal that concern about the possibility that Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment facility could result in eutrophication, or the creation of a dead zone in the Northumberland Strait, was raised early on by a senior official with Nova Scotia’s Environmental Assessment (EA) Branch. Emails between Northern Pulp’s […]
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Northern Pulp Mill and the province are set to roll the dice with Boat Harbour’s replacement, but a cleaner alternative exists.
This once pristine tidal estuary, Boat Harbour has been used as an industrial waste lagoon for the Abercrombie pulp mill (now Northern Pulp) near Pictou for fifty years. Photo courtesy Dave Gunning. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife. Earlier this month a delegation of fishers from Nova Scotia, PEI, and […]