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Saltwire finds one scientist who thinks Northern Pulp’s effluent isn’t toxic

Morning File, Monday, December 9, 2019

December 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 3 Comments

News 1. Stadium David Fleming is an economist who has worked with the Greater Halifax Partnership and the North End Business Association, and is now working on PEI. He reviewed the case for public financing of a stadium, and found it wanting. Click here to read “There’s not a good financial case for a publicly […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anaconda Mining, Anthony Leblanc, Atlantic Schooners, Bathurst Police Force, Boat Harbour, Brian Baarda, CFL funding, Chief Andrea Paul, Chris Lambie, Chronicle Herald, David Fleming, Donald Gordon, Elkhorn, Frances Willick, Insp. Richard Haye, Jim Williams, Karissa Donkin, Lori Marino, Lynn Hammond, Michael Dadswell, Michael MacDonald, Michel Vienneau, Mike Rainone, Northern Pulp effluent, Pedro Chang, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), power rates, RCMP, RCMP Sgt. Ron DeSilva, SaltWire, Sharphead First Nations Reserve, Terri Fraser, Whale Sanctuary Project

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

The mill says its effluent comfortably meets federal regulations, but a new study published by Dalhousie researchers suggests there is no way to know.

July 8, 2019 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Cover photo courtesy Gerard James Halfyard. If Premier Stephen McNeil is wavering on the Northern Pulp / Paper Excellence file, entertaining notions on amending the Boat Harbour Act so that effluent from the Pictou County pulp mill can continue to flow into the lagoon after January 31, 2020, he would do well to put off […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Alison Reilander, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canso Chemicals, Chief Andrea Paul, chlorine, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, dioxins and furans, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), environmental studies, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Gerard James Halfyard, Jessica Romo, Matt Dort, Meenakshi Chaudhary, mercury, Minister Margaret Miller, Northern Pulp Mill, Northumberland Strait, Pictou Harbour, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations (PPER), Terri Fraser, Tony R. Walker

Northern Pulp’s environmental documents: missing mercury, a pulp mill that never was, and oodles of contradictions

March 5, 2019 By Joan Baxter 9 Comments

Cover photo: “Point D,” where treated Northern Pulp wastewater currently flows from Boat Harbour into the Northumberland Strait, just a few hundred metres from Pictou Landing First Nation. There is much to wade through in the documents Northern Pulp submitted to Nova Scotia Environment on February 7, 2019, when it registered its “Replacement Effluent Treatment […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Bell Bay Tasmania, Boat Harbour, Bruce Chapman, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), Canso Chemicals, Chief Andrea Paul, Clean the Mill Group, Dave Gunning, Dillon Consulting, dioxins and furans, Dr. John Krawczyk, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Gary Porter, Greg Egilsson, Gulf NS Herring Federation, Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA), Jamie Simpson, Kathy Cloutier, KSH Consulting, mercury, Mi’kmaq Conservation Group, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp effluent, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, Nova Scotia Environment, oxygen delignification system, Paper Excellence Canada, Pictou Harbour, Pictou Landing, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Point D, Rachel Boomer, Terri Fraser, Toxikos

John Hamm says he has no regrets about signing pulp mill lease

February 10, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Former premier and long-time Northern Pulp Nova Scotia director John Hamm says he has no regrets about his 2002 decision to sign a 25-year lease agreement with a previous owner of the Pictou County mill when his Progressive Conservatives were in power. The Examiner tagged Hamm for a brief conversation Friday night following his appearance...

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Filed Under: Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Boat Harbor, Bruce Chapman, Choong Wei Tan, former Premier John Hamm, John Savage government, Minister Gerald O’Malley, Minister Ron Russell, Neenah Paper, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia (NPNS), Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation, Paper Excellence Canada, Terri Fraser

Battle for the Mill

The plan to pipe effluent from the Northern Pulp Mill into the Northumberland Strait is dividing the community of Pictou, pitting neighbour against neighbour and fishermen against mill workers.

March 20, 2018 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

This is a follow-up to Linda Pannozzo’s investigative articles in The Halifax Examiner detailing the issues around Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment and disposal system: Dirty Dealing Part 1: Northern Pulp mill and the province are set to roll the dice with Boat Harbour’s replacement, but a cleaner alternative exists; Dirty Dealing Part 2: Wading through the quagmire […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Andrea Paul, Asia Pulp and Paper, Boat Harbour, Bruce Chapman, Bruce I. Fleming, Central Nova MP Sean Fraser, Cory Rankin, Deputy Environment Minister Frances Martin, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Government House leader Alan McIsaac, Joan Baxter, Kathy Cloutier, MLA Colin LaVie, MLA Darlene Compton, MLA Karla MacFarlane, MLA Lenore Zann, MLA Peter Bevan-Baker, MLA Tim Houston, Nicole MacKenzie, Northern Pulp emissions, Paper Excellence Canada, Pictou Landing First Nation, Premier Wade MacLauchlan, Ron Heighton, Ryan Fleury, Sinar Mas Group, Terri Fraser

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

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.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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