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The Fracked-Up Business of LNG on Canada’s East Coast
If the threat of turning Eastern Canada into a fracked gas field has been partially mitigated through newly-legislated provincial moratoriums, the natural gas industry still has a particular pipe dream for the Maritimes' coastline.
A Close Look at Two Jailed Mi'kmaq Warriors Who Protested Big Oil in New Brunswick
Mi'kmaq Warrior Society members Germaine Breau and Aaron Francis were recently sentenced after ninth months in custody for their involvement in a controversial and expensive RCMP raid of an anti-shale gas encampment in New Brunswick last year.
The Strange Case of Pictou County, Nova Scotia—A Community Supported by Toxic Mills
Pictou County, Nova Scotia is the home of the last of Nova Scotia's "Big Three" mills. Despite higher incidences of cancer, stillbirths, and infant deaths that some residents blame on pollution from the mills, the town remains solidly divided on how to...
A Chemical Leak in Nova Scotia Has Sparked a First Nations Blockade
Tuesday morning, staff at Abercrombie Point pulp and paper mill in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, noticed that a pipe carrying raw effluent had sprung a leak and was spewing into the waters of Pictou Harbour. Now the First Nations community in Pictou is...