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Dirty Dealing 

Northern Pulp Mill and the province are set to roll the dice with Boat Harbour’s replacement, but a cleaner alternative exists.

November 22, 2017 By Linda Pannozzo 12 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, Boat Harbour Timeline (Water and Air Pollution), Central Nova MP Sean Fraser, Charlie McGeoghegan, Clean the Mill, Daniel Paul, Dave Gunning, Douglas Reeve, Douglas Singbeil, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Howard Rapson, Joan Baxter, Kathy Cloutier, Linda Pannozzo, Melanie Griffin, Mi’kmaq of Pictou Landing, MLA Karla MacFarlane, Northern Pulp's mill waste, Pictou Landing First Nation, premier John Savage

DEAD WRONG

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

This is a multi-part series still in publication. Click here to go to the DEAD WRONG home page.

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