Environmental Impact Assessment and Mining in Nova Scotia: A Public Legal Education Session Saturday, November 30 1-5pm Room 150, Collaborative Health Education Building (Dalhousie) 5739 University Avenue SOLD OUT. To say that gold mining in Nova Scotia is controversial is to assume everyone knows the facts. On Saturday, November 30 the East Coast Environmental Law […]
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Joan Kuyek’s book Unearthing Justice is a light in the darkness
When author and activist Joan Kuyek moved to Sudbury, Ontario, she noticed unusual surroundings. “I couldn’t believe the city when we first came in. I mean, at that point it was black rocks everywhere,” she says by phone from Ottawa. The landscape had been burnt by a hundred years of smelting in North America’s richest […]
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Undermined in the Town of Westville
On September 30, in the town Westville, Nova Scotia—155 kilometres from Halifax—town councillor Lynn MacDonald surprised even herself when she put forward a motion to take back a proposal for exploratory coal mining on town land. She was effectively squashing a proposal that she had brought to council with a motion of support nearly a […]
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John Perkins says he’ll see Atlantic Gold, RCMP in court
John Perkins has filed a lawsuit against Atlantic Gold Corporation and the RCMP after his hasty caught-on-video arrest at a public information session on mining in Sherbrooke this past May. The information meeting was hosted by Atlantic Gold, whose plans to construct three gold mines in Nova Scotia put them at the forefront of this […]
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Nova Scotia’s golden addiction to toxic mining
David Clark remembers where he was the day the trouble started. He was walking through the woods on his property in Melrose, a small community on the St. Mary’s River, a two-and-a-half-hour drive east of Halifax. Sun shone through the trees. Beams of light landed on the small brook. The rolling water sparkled. It added […]
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How Nova Scotia can move forward from 300 years of coal and fossil fuel extraction
“No more coal, no more oil, keep the carbon in the soil” chanted Halifax high school students and their supporters outside Province House last Friday. They joined millions of other students around the world striking from school on Fridays protesting inaction on climate change, following the lead of Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg and fuelled by […]
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25 for 25: episode 1997
The year 1997 is when Mike Savage first tried—and failed—to enter politics. It’s also the year his father, John Savage, resigned as premier. The mayor joins us in studio to talk about both events and his family’s history in Dartmouth of yore. University of King’s College professor Susan Dodd is also here to discuss the […]
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Under-mining Nova Scotia’s protected wildernesss
I’m a Haligonian. And like most Haligonians, I’ve had to work pretty darn hard to find a way to stay here. For me, that meant going away for several years to learn new skills and then come home. When employment in my field wasn’t available when I returned, it meant creating my own opportunities. For […]
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We will have another Westray
25 years ago the Westray mine exploded in Plymouth, Nova Scotia killing all 26 miners who were down below. It will happen again. The last five years have seen an unprecedented attack on labour rights in the province. The Liberal government has passed at least nine separate pieces of legislation to limit the rights of […]
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Mine booster misled
To the editor, Michael Hannon’s letter last week, “Mining piece fearmongering,” asserts that “Gold crush” (Apr. 23, news) was “fearmongering,” but his critique that the article made unfounded and vague claims is itself entirely unfounded and vague. Hannon writes “It’s absurd to think that a new mine’s impact on the environment will be the same […]