Environment Department

• Nova Scotia releases sweeping plan aimed at cutting emissions, reaching climate goals

  Nova Scotia has released a sweeping climate action plan aimed at helping it meet legislated goals, including a 53 per cent reduction of greenhouse gases below 2005 levels by 2030.

  Environment

  Dec 7, 2022
  
• Nova Scotia issues seven-year industrial approval for Cape Breton coal mine

  Nova Scotia's Environment Department has renewed the industrial approval for the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton for the next seven years.

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2022
  
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• Nova Scotia grants 18-month extension for work to begin on commercial spaceport

  Company CEO Steve Matier blames the COVID-19 pandemic for delaying progress last year.

  Canada

  Mar 17, 2021
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• Blue-green algae found in Lake Major water supply

  While toxins have been confirmed in Lake Micmac last year and this year, James Campbell with Halifax Water says that is not the case with the blue-green algae in Lake Major.

  Jul 16, 2020
• Nova Scotia withholds approval, seeks more information on pulp mill plan

  Gordon Wilson says the province doesn't have enough information to determine if the Northern Pulp project will harm the environment.

  Canada

  Dec 17, 2019
• Nova Scotia pulp mill’s effluent focus report lacks detail: federal departments 

  Stephen McNeil says if he comments ahead of a provincial Environment Department decision on Northern Pulp's project he will be accused of interfering in the process.

  Canada

  Nov 26, 2019
• Nova Scotia pulp mill submits focus report to province on effluent proposal

  Company officials have said that if their plan to pipe 85 million litres of treated wastewater into the Northumberland Strait is not approved, the mill will close.

  Canada

  Oct 2, 2019
• Quebec children at risk of lead exposure from water in schools and daycares: report

  Children in Quebec are at risk of lead exposure from drinking water in their daycares and elementary schools due to inadequate oversight, says a provincial public health research institute.

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2019
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• Gordon Wilson replaces Margaret Miller as Nova Scotia environment minister

  The government says Miller is leaving cabinet now to focus on constituency work as she recovers from recent arm surgery.

  Politics

  Apr 24, 2019
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• N.S. group seeks data on October effluent leak from Northern Pulp pipeline

  Jill Graham-Scanlan, president of the group, says the public should be told the composition of the effluent that leaked and why the pipe break went initially undetected by the company.

  Canada

  Feb 5, 2019