Sometime over the next few months, the top two municipal officials with the District of Guysborough will travel to Vandenburg Air Force base in California to watch a rocket launch. Municipal council voted to pay for a fact-finding trip — which includes an equally important visit to rocket fuel company United Paradyne — by CAO...
A Virginia businessman wants a piece of the action before the city can turn the old Windsor & Hantsport Railway into a trail
Robert T. Schmidt's claim to all of the rail line is contested, and the province has gone to court to force him to maintain his dilapidated property, but Schmidt says he wants taxpayers to pay him millions of dollars
Halifax Regional Municipality, the Nova Scotia government, and an American businessman want to own a discontinued railway that’s more than a century-and-a-half old. The Windsor and Hantsport Railway is 90 kilometers of track running from Windsor Junction through Mount Uniacke, Windsor, and Hantsport to New Minas. The American wants to be in the rail business, but...
Dirty Dealing
Part 2: Wading Through the Quagmire of Northern Pulp’s Fast-tracked Environmental Assessment
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveal that concern about the possibility that Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment facility could result in eutrophication, or the creation of a dead zone in the Northumberland Strait, was raised early on by a senior official with Nova Scotia’s Environmental Assessment (EA) Branch. Emails between Northern Pulp’s […]
Waiting for the train
The government of Nova Scotia is paying $60,000 a month to keep Genesee & Wyoming from scrapping its Cape Breton rail line. That's not money to fix the line, but merely to keep it from being sold. The cost of repairs? A whopping $101 million.
悉尼升级到特鲁罗铁路线to the point where it can handle double-stacked containers won’t come cheap, according to a study just completed for the Port of Sydney Development Corporation, but the fix is needed if Sydney’s dreams of becoming a major container terminal are ever to be realized. Port CEO Marlene Usher told...
Here are the Nova Scotians named in the Paradise Papers
Nova Scotians connected to the Paradise Papers include professional investors, mining company execs, people who made their fortunes via online betting, a former Port Authority director, and a retired vice-admiral.
In November, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began reporting on a trove of leaked documents it called the Paradise Papers: The Paradise Papers documents include nearly 7 million loan agreements, financial statements, emails, trust deeds and other paperwork from nearly 50 years at Appleby, a leading offshore law firm with offices in Bermuda and beyond. The...
Surveying work suggests the city is buying Hobsons Lake for the Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park
The land in question is owned by West Bedford Holdings Limited, whose president is former Halifax CAO Richard Butts.
Surveyors have been working along a property line in the Hobsons Lake area behind Kearney Lake, raising speculation that Hobsons Lake is part of the land the city is buying for the proposed Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park. That purchase was approved by Halifax council during a closed-door meeting on November 28....
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Northern Pulp Mill and the province are set to roll the dice with Boat Harbour’s replacement, but a cleaner alternative exists.
This once pristine tidal estuary, Boat Harbour has been used as an industrial waste lagoon for the Abercrombie pulp mill (now Northern Pulp) near Pictou for fifty years. Photo courtesy Dave Gunning. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife. Earlier this month a delegation of fishers from Nova Scotia, PEI, and […]
Man with history of domestic assault awarded custody of five-year-old boy
Justice Lawrence O'Neil has had a long and controversial career, first as an MP railing against women's right to abortion, then as a judge overly protective of the rights of fathers. Now, the Associate Chief Justice has awarded custody of a small child to a father with a history of domestic assault, downplayed another allegation of domestic assault against the father, implied that the mother was lying, and accused the police of misleading the court.
In August, Lawrence O’Neil, the Associate Chief Justice of the Family Court, awarded custody of a five-year-old boy to the child’s father, who has a history of domestic violence, even though the father had previously signed away his right to custody. A troubled relationship The names of the parents and child in this story are […]
The Burnside Expressway was realigned and it’s going to cost commuters lots of time, money, and pollution
The route of the highway was moved south of Anderson Lake because Dexter Construction was "not expected to be cooperative."
Just before the last provincial election, the Nova Scotia Liberals announced a seven-year, $390 million commitment to highway building and twinning. It was a distinct change from the stance they had taken the previous year during tolling consultations, when they made clear that Nova Scotia could not afford to twin highways without collecting tolls. One […]
What’s going on with LED Roadway Lighting?
The company has received at least $22 million in public money, but no one will tell the public what the status of the company is.
Sometimes, chasing a story that runs into a brick wall can be revealing. Two weeks ago, I decided to do an update on LED Roadway Lighting, the Nova Scotian company completing the changeover of the Halifax Regional Municipality’s 37,000 street lights into fixtures that consume sixty per cent less energy and are supposed to deliver...
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