Category: Steve’s Musings
NRDC: Missing the Forest – How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada’s Climate Leadership (PDF) – Missing-the-Forest.pdf
Governments are failing to report the annual release of more than 80 megatonnes (Mt) per year of greenhouse gases from boreal forests, Environmental Defence Canada, Nature Canada, Nature Québec, and Natural Resources Defense Council conclude, in a report [pdf] released in the week leading up to the COP. That’s a significant increase over Environment and…
Victory for Mi’kmaq as Nova Scotia’s Alton Gas Project Cancelled
Seven years after local Mi’kmaq Elders first moved to block a project that would have left salt caverns along Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie River full of natural gas, and the river itself dangerously saline, the company in charge of the project has pulled the plug. Announcing its decision in a release last week, Alton, a subsidiary…
Northumberland Strait Is Being Poisoned
Several questions remain about the amount of mercury in Nova Scotia, buried under the site where Northern Pulp's new treatment facility will be. Concerned citizens wonder whether the industrial site has been properly remediated. If not, the ground disturbance from the new facility could cause the mercury to leach into the waterways and into the…
Nova Scotia: What’s Killing the Fish?
Pictures taken taken December 26th, 2016 in Digby, Nova Scotia show more than just dead herring washing ashore in Nova Scotia. Besides the Herring, Lobster, Bar clams, Starfish and more have been washing ashore. Eric Hewey took these pictures while visiting Savary Park. He's added 43 images to his photo gallery on Facebook including the…
Turbine Noise Killing Herring in NS?
Author: Cathy Belliveau, Fall River, Nova Scotia Cape Sharp Tidal is a partnership formed between NS Power's parent company, Emera Inc and OpenHydro. Their aim is to demonstrate they can "successfully grid-connect in-stream turbine arrays that produce energy silently, invisibly and without environmental harm." Flashback to early summer 2016. People were wary. Thousands, including those…
AltonGas Needs a Climate Change Assessment
Alexis Bonogofsky wrote about "reports of dead fish floating and collecting on the banks of the iconic Yellowstone River began coming into Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) in early August. The Yellowstone flows for 692 miles from Absaroka mountain range in Wyoming, through Yellowstone National Park, into the prairies of eastern Montana and finally,…
Backwoods Nova Scotia not going green
Emera Inc, which is Nova Scotia Power's parent company, is partnering with Maine Aqua Ventus and will build floating wind turbines off the coast of Maine. According to the CBC it will work with local contractors and manufacturers in Maine to generate local economic benefit, create and keep Maine jobs in Maine, and provide renewable…
Oil Tanker Spill Threatens the Minas Basin
Proponents for Energy East claim Atlantic Canada need the jobs and the work would usher in a new era of prosperity. It's estimated to provide 14,000 direct and indirect full-time jobs. These numbers represent jobs Canada wide, not just Atlantic Canada. The extra jobs for Maritimers outside of New Brunswick is practically non-existent. Former Nova…