News 1. Fool’s Gold, Part 3 We’ve published the third instalment of Joan Baxter’s “Fool’s Gold” series. Part 3 looks at the provincial Department of Natural Resource’s efforts to open the Cobequid Hills up to gold production, and the effect prospecting and potential mining would have on the French River, which is the source of […]
Waiting for the train
The government of Nova Scotia is paying $60,000 a month to keep Genesee & Wyoming from scrapping its Cape Breton rail line. That's not money to fix the line, but merely to keep it from being sold. The cost of repairs? A whopping $101 million.
Upgrading the Sydney to Truro rail line to the point where it can handle double-stacked containers won’t come cheap, according to a study just completed for the Port of Sydney Development Corporation, but the fix is needed if Sydney’s dreams of becoming a major container terminal are ever to be realized. Port CEO Marlene Usher told...