Tag: Environment
Is Pushback Against Mining in Nova Scotia Affecting Premier Tim Houston?
Have you been wondering whether all the protests and opposition to uranium mining and fracking are having any impact on Premier Tim Houston?
So far, Houston remains determined to lift Nova Scotia’s long-standing bans on fracking and uranium mining—despite growing public resistance. Here’s where things stand:
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…
Northern pulp appeals ministerial cleanup order, pauses environmental assessment – HalifaxToday.ca
HALIFAX — The parent company for the idled Northern Pulp mill says it has filed an appeal with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court related to a ministerial order issued last month for the management of the site. The pulp mill stopped production on Jan. 31 after the province rejected its request to continue pumping treated…
N.S. government extends Northern Pulp’s use of Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until April – Halifax | Globalnews.ca
Northern Pulp will continue to use its Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until the end of April as the company prepares the facility for its indefinite closure. On Wednesday, Northern Pulp announced it had received an order from Nova Scotia Minister of Environment Gordon Wilson that directs the continued use of its wastewater treatment plant…
Nova Scotia pulp mill issues layoff notices as facility winds down operations | CTV News Atlantic
HALIFAX -- Northern Pulp says it has started giving layoff notices to employees at the Nova Scotia mill. The company has moved to mothball the mill after its plan for a new treatment system that would see it pump treated effluent into the Northumberland Strait was rejected by the province. Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil…