封面照片：“点D”，当前处理过北部纸浆废水目前从船港流向诺森伯兰海峡，距Pictou Landing First Nation仅几百米。2019年2月7日，在北部纸浆中提交给新斯科舍省环境的文件中，有很多事情要做。
北部的纸浆说它“在乎” - 但是为谁和什么呢？
“We care,” says Northern Pulp on the website it has created to spread the word that it “cares about forestry families of Nova Scotia.” The site is a vehicle for the company’s letter-writing campaign to get people in the forestry sector to contact Premier Stephen McNeil, their MLA, MP, or even Canadian Senators to ask […]
就像一块石头的鲜血：试图从能源部和矿山中获取信息
Late last year, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Derek Mombourquette, penned an op-ed that his department sent out to the media. As I mentioned in Morning File on January 16, 2019, the opinion piece was entitled “A little piece of Nova Scotia, everywhere,” and it claimed that the province’s mining industry was “something we can all take […]
“一切都不会变得如此糟糕”
The countdown to Boat Harbour closure begins
The children of Pictou Landing First Nation didn’t mince words when they addressed the standing-room-only audience that had gathered in their school gymnasium on January 31, 2019 to mark the start of the one-year countdown to the legislated closure of Boat Harbour. They “hate” Boat Harbour. It makes them “sad.” And “it stinks.” Once the […]
Friends of St. Mary’s River say “NOPE” to Atlantic Gold
For many years, when the St. Mary’s River Association (or SMRA) held meetings in Sherbrooke on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore, the group members’ purpose was primarily to report on the headway they were making in their efforts to achieve their vision of “Health for our river, the Atlantic salmon and our community.” Members would gather […]
Fixing freedom of information in NS (and jails), pulp mill politics, and plastics – all that, and more.
Morning File, Wednesday, January 16, 2019
我是琼·巴克斯特（Joan Baxter），今天填补蒂姆。新闻1.新斯科舍省的信息自由 - 蒂姆所写的失败和修复程序，昨天，新斯科舍省隐私专员凯瑟琳·塔利（Catherine Tully）和审计长迈克尔·皮卡普（Michael Pickup）发布了有关Foipop网站安全失败的报告。两者都画了政府如何处理的可恶图片[…]
Containing Northern Pulp’s mess
A half century of toxic waste in Boat Harbour, a leaky pipeline, and what happens next in the mill saga.
The numbers are staggering. Over the past 51 years, the bleached kraft pulp mill on Abercrombie Point in Pictou County has piped about 1.25 trillion litres of toxic effluent into Boat Harbour.[1] That’s enough to fill about half a million Olympic-size swimming pools, or a pipeline one metre in diameter stretching about 1.6 million kilometres, […]
试图从省政府中获得直接答案是一种沮丧和徒劳的练习
晨报，2018年10月4日，星期四
琼·巴克斯特（Joan Baxter）再次在这里，为在多伦多进行不法定罪的蒂姆（Tim）填补，并受到了加拿大无罪的认可，这是一个致力于识别，倡导和自尊心的人，他们被定罪的人没有承诺的犯罪。他因[…]的报道而被授予Tracey Tyler奖。
“Pig in a poke”: die-hard proponents want to open Nova Scotia to fracking
关于200 people gathered last evening in Pugwash, filling the Northumberland Community Curling Club for a debate framed around the resolution “fracking will be beneficial to Cumberland County.” The audience was, not surprisingly, clearly divided between those in favour and those against. For many, including several members of the Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action […]
The corporate kleptocracy takes aim at Nova Scotia
Morning File, Friday, August 31, 2018
Hi, I’m Joan Baxter, a Nova Scotian journalist and author. Some of my books are actually quite upbeat, proving that I’m not always a bearer of bad news. News 1. Abandoned tidal turbine Jennifer Henderson updates the situation of the abandoned tidal turbine in the Minas Basin in this article for the Examiner. After a […]