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In historic vote Town of Truro vows to get serious about repairing the damage of racism – Nova Scotia Advocate

A little over two weeks ago Dr. Lynn Jones and some friends were
questioned by Truro police after they stopped to watch deer, right in
the historic African Nova Scotian Truro neighborhood where her family
has lived for many generations.

“Please add me to the list of African Nova Scotians who are
constantly being racially profiled in this province for no valid reason
and while you’re at it, give your constituents in Truro and your Town
police a lesson in white privilege, anti Black racism and the history of
the founding people of our province and Truro,” she wrote in an open
letter to Truro’s mayor Bill Mills that was published in the Nova Scotia Advocate.

October 9, 2019

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Dale Andrew Poulette and Rachael Greenland-Smith: The fight to save the Shubenacadie River – Nova Scotia Advocate

Alton Natural Gas Storage Lp is not safe for the environment. The
brine the company intends to release into the Shubenacadie River is
acutely toxic to life.

On February 25, 2019 Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a
Notice of Intent, which confirms that the brine Alton Gas plans to
release into the river is a deleterious substance according to the
Fisheries Act and prohibited by Section 36(3). The project as currently
planned is against the law. Both the Province of Nova Scotia and Alton
Gas have maintained that this project is safe for the environment when
it clearly is not.

For the last 6 years, there has been a steady opposition to Alton Gas
from the public. The community is fighting tooth and nail to protect
Treaty Rights, fish and fish habitat, the Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic
Salmon, and the Shubenacadie River itself. The Alton Gas project poses a
threat to all of these things.

October 9, 2019

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N.S.’s single-use plastic bag ban plan ‘not beneficial’ for environment, says lobbyist | CBC News

There you go. PEI did it… Nova Scotia can’t.

Joe Hruska, vice-president of sustainability at the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, urged the province to delay passing the bill to give the industry more time to properly educate politicians on the issue.

“Social media and public pressures, I think, based on misinformation, emotion, lack of science and education are driving the narrative,” Hruska told the law amendments committee during his 10-minute presentation. “We can state categorically those drivers will not solve your environmental problems.”

He said “banning plastic bags is not beneficial to the environment.”

October 7, 2019

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Sea Level Rise, Severe Storm Surge Could Sever Nova Scotia’s Land Link to Canada – The Energy Mix

“As storms like [Hurricane] Dorian become more common, there is one area that’s being considered especially vulnerable, the Chignecto Isthmus,” Global News reports. “It is described by the United Nations as one of the most vulnerable spots in North America for both the rising tide and storm surges.”

The isthmus, currently protected by a system of dikes and aboiteaus, is expected to see about a metre of sea level rise over the next eight decades. And “there is not a lot of elevation between that water and where we are standing,” said Amherst, NS Mayor David Kogon, speaking from a coastal information centre near the Minas Basin. “Which is why this area is in such peril if there’s a storm surge, or if the sea level rise becomes more significant.”

October 4, 2019

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Northern Pulp report on effluent pipe proposal forecasts no significant impacts

The Nova Scotia Environment Department, which ordered the report last
March, posted thousands of pages of documents from the company on its
website for public comment Thursday afternoon.

In its report summary, the company says it has provided a science-based review including data beyond its submission to the department last January.

It says its submission includes environmental baseline studies, archaeological investigations, water modeling, engineering designs, and Mi’kmaq ecological knowledge studies.

October 4, 2019

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