The feature-length documentary There's Something in the Water began streaming on Netflix on Friday.

Stephen McNeil has announced a $50-million transition fund for those affected by the shut-down including the more than 300 people who work at the mill. 

Ingrid Waldron, author of the book that inspired the documentary, says actress Ellen Page reached out to her about shedding light on the issue of environmental racism.

The deadline is ticking down for the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County to stop sending effluent into a lagoon near a Mi'kmaq community.

"It means that certain communities, black communities, Indigenous communities, communities of colour, tend to be disproportionately located near landfills and waste sites."

The environment minister says Boat Harbour, which is adjacent to a First Nations reserve, is one of the biggest examples of environmental racism in the province and probably the country.

The post was regarding a resident's speech on the damage to the local African Nova Scotian population as a result of the placement of a nearby dump.

Although the term environmental racism may not be well understood, it's an issue that's plagued many Aboriginal, Black and low-income communities across North America for decades, including here in our region. Experts say you don't have to look far to see environmental racism across Nova Scotia.