More than four months ago, Erica Butler reported that Halifax was initiating a process to create a $350,000 Integrated Mobility Plan looking at how we get around town, how we move goods around town, where we tend to live and work, and how these things shape one another. The plan will influence street and community...
Will the Sawmill River see the light of day? Yes. Will it look like a river? Maybe.
About 75 people gathered last night for a lively discussion about the prospects for a daylighted Sawmill River in downtown Dartmouth, organized by the Ecology Action Centre’s water team. The Sawmill runs from Sullivan’s Pond down into Halifax Harbour, formerly a key piece of the Shubenacadie Canal, and before that, the river system that was […]
Losing the forest — and the species — for the trees
The Department of Natural Resources is ignoring its legal duty to protect endangered, threatened, and vulnerable species.
The Nova Scotia Dept of Natural Resources (DNR) is not living up to its job to protect species of animals and plants considered endangered, threatened, or vulnerable. That’s the conclusion of Chapter 3 of Auditor General Michael Pickup’s report released last week. The auditor general carried out an audit this winter. Pickup’s report concludes that […]
Biomass, Freedom of Information, and the DNR Company Men, Part 2: An Open Letter to the FOIPOP Review Officer
Editor’s note: In March, the Halifax Examiner published Linda Pannozzo’s investigation into biomass harvesting, “Feeding the Fire.” Pannozzo followed that up in April with “Biomass, Freedom of Information, and the Silence of the DNR Company Men,” which looked at how information is controlled and managed in the Department of Natural Resources, and how her investigation […]
Biomass, Freedom of Information, and the Silence of the DNR Company Men
Reporter Linda Pannozzo discovers just how hard provincial bureaucrats worked to ignore her questions.
In the opening scenes of Franny Armstrong’s 2009 film The Age of Stupid: Why We didn’t Save Ourselves When We Had the Chance, everything lies in ruin: abandoned rides sit idle in a flooded theme park, forests are ablaze, and amid the smoldering detritus of decades of climate chaos the planet appears to have also […]
Feeding the Fire
Biomass and Nova Scotia’s Race for the Bottom
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Nova Scotia government abandons strict forest certification for former Bowater Mersey land
A conservation biologist says the provincial government’s decision to use a lesser certification for woodland is like a student changing schools because he can’t pass an exam. On Monday the province announced it would discontinue Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for the Medway District in western Nova Scotia in favour of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative...
What can Halifax learn from Vancouver’s modal shift?
On Wednesday, when Dale Bracewell, Vancouver’s manager of Active Transportation, comes to speak at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, he will have some impressive numbers to share. In May, Bracewell and his colleagues had the pleasure of reporting to their city council that the share of trips taken by sustainable modes in Vancouver had […]
Nova Scotia’s not technically underwater yet: the province and the Paris Climate Change Accord. Examineradio, episode #40
This week we speak with the Ecology Action Centre’s Energy Coordinator Catherine Abreu. She basically stepped off a plane from Paris and into our studios to report back on the end results of the historic meetings and how it might affect Nova Scotia. Also, after 72 straight hours of debate, Nova Scotia’s Liberal government passed the final reading of the contentious […]
Just as the world agrees to climate change action, NS Liberals impose huge cuts to solar power
How short-term energy-price politics prevent us from making real progress in the fight against climate change.
On December 14, Minister of Energy Michel Samson stood before the legislature and introduced Bill 141 – Electricity Plan Implementation Act. “Mr. Speaker,” he said, “I’m pleased to stand for a third time to speak about this important bill…The plan and this bill are built on the input and advice government received from over 1,300...
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