Nova Scotia

Critics say Nova Scotia needs to focus on decarbonizing its own grid, 51 per cent of which is powered by coal, before sending energy abroad.

Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine reopened this week. But it won't be required to follow federal cap-and-trade rules, meaning greenhouse gas emissions from the site will continue unchecked.

More than a dozen roof cave-ins, 152 warnings, 119 compliance orders, 37 administrative penalties and a series of provincial stop-work orders. Nova Scotia's Donkin coal mine reopened this week, begging the question: what has changed?

The federal environment minister on Thursday, September 1, 2022, rejected a request from the premiers of Atlantic Canada for an extension to the deadline to submit their plans to tackle carbon emissions.

Higher food prices have pushed some of the more than 60,000 temporary farm workers who come to Canada each year to skimp on their own meals so they can make sure their relatives at home are able to afford food.

On the eve of the German chancellor's visit to Canada, Wolastoq Grand Council, other Indigenous people and allies in Atlantic Canada will voice opposition to proposals for East Coast LNG export projects and related fracking.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault made the announcement at an aquatic club next to the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes wilderness area, in the west end of Halifax.

The Goldboro LNG project is set to liquify natural gas piped in from Alberta before it’s shipped off to Europe. Opponents argue the proposition needs more environmental scrutiny.

During his undergraduate studies at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, this 22-year-old helped discover there are many more bees in Nova Scotia’s salt marshes than previously thought. 

Environmentalists are expressing dismay over a pending provincial government decision that could allow a Nova Scotia gold mine to raise the height of the wall of its existing tailings waste pond.

More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and its intergenerational harms.

The company behind the Touquoy open-pit gold mine in Moose River has asked the province for permission to raise the height of a dam wall surrounding its tailing ponds, which consist of watered-down waste from the mining process and contain heavy metal byproducts.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week announced $255 million for clean energy projects in Nova Scotia — a province where 75 per cent of energy comes from fossil fuels.

A new report from the Senate is calling on the federal government to implement Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik and Peskotomuhkati rights-based fisheries on Canada's East Coast and overhaul its approach to negotiations.

A scathing letter from an RCMP communications manager released on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki referred to direct pressure from the federal public safety minister to release firearm details in the days after the Nova Scotia mass shooting.