Alton Gas is planning to release brine at over six times (260 ppt)
the concentration that ECCC deems deleterious (40 ppt). ECCC confirmed
this to Alton Gas back in 2016, and according to documents, ECCC was
even considering enforcement action in 2018 over the planned release.
Environment and Climate Change Canada administers Section 36 of the
Fisheries Act, the key pollution prevention provision
which prohibits the deposit of deleterious substances into waters
frequented by fish, unless authorized by regulations under the Fisheries
Act or other federal legislation.
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RCMP block road to Alton Gas site as they urge protesters to leave | CBC News
RCMP have closed a rural road north of Halifax where protesters
are blocking the site of a controversial natural gas project at Fort
Ellis.
are blocking the site of a controversial natural gas project at Fort
Ellis.
The blockade was set up more than two years ago by
Indigenous protesters opposed to a plan by Alton Gas to create large
underground caverns to store natural gas.
The protesters are
worried the nearby Shubenacadie River will be polluted if the company
moves ahead with its plan to flush out underground salt deposits and
then dump the brine into the river.
A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke
Baxter details the measures taken to address the mercury
contamination of the site, but the short of it is that the bulk of it is
still there and spreading, taking a slow march towards both the water
table and Pictou Harbour.
contamination of the site, but the short of it is that the bulk of it is
still there and spreading, taking a slow march towards both the water
table and Pictou Harbour.
The Environmental Assessment for the proposed effluent pipe doesn’t
address the potential for disturbing mercury or releasing it into the
air, potentially bringing great risk to humans in the area.
Baxter tried to obtain the results of ongoing mercury monitoring of
the site, but was frustrated by government bureaucrats at both the
provincial and federal levels, apparently in violation of international
treaties that call for making such information readily available.
N.S. met duty to consult with first nation on Alton Gas project: minister
Margaret Miller released her decision Monday as part of a review
sparked by the first nation’s appeal of the province’s industrial
approval for the Alton Gas project near Shubenacadie.
sparked by the first nation’s appeal of the province’s industrial
approval for the Alton Gas project near Shubenacadie.
Miller also determined the province’s terms and conditions are sufficient to protect the environment.
The planned release of treated
effluents into the Northumberland Strait by Northern Pulp is a topic of
much debate, with some arguing all will be fine, while others, many
fishermen amongst them, fear that it will not be safe at all.
effluents into the Northumberland Strait by Northern Pulp is a topic of
much debate, with some arguing all will be fine, while others, many
fishermen amongst them, fear that it will not be safe at all.
Folks engaged in that debate may find an early 2000s water quality study
of the St. Croix Estuary of interest. The St Croix Estuary, a body of
water separating Maine and New Brunswick, located at the western mouth
of the Bay of Fundy, has been the recipient of effluents of a local
paper mill since 1965.
Art MacKay, a now retired biologist,
is one of the authors of the 2003 study of the relative environmental
health of the St. Croix Estuary over the the last 400 years. The study
is part historic research, and part data collected in the early 2000s
through fieldwork.
No matter what creatures you look at,
be they sponges, anemones, jellyfish, crustaceans, urchins, sand
dollars, and what have you, the study concludes that by and large all
have suffered a decline, although the exact extent and cause of that
decline is often difficult to pinpoint.
The report points to a pulp mill in Woodland, Maine, as one of the two main causes of ongoing water pollution in the estuary.