Municipality of Colchester holds public hearings on fracking waste water

There are warnings the tidal bore in the Bay of Fundy will light up by itself if a plan to dump more than four-million litres of fracking waste water into the ocean goes ahead.

The water, which has some level of naturally occurring radiation in it, is in a holding tank right now, but Atlantic Industrial Services plans to dump that water into the Debert sewer system if it can get approval.

The district manager for the provincial environment department’s Truro office has given the dump the thumbs up, but nothing is official until the Municipality of Colchester says so.

The municipality is holding public hearings on the topic tonight and tomorrow.

There are concerns fracking companies don’t reveal all the chemicals used in their “special sauce” recipe that they use to get the gas out of the ground.... Read more »

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http://m.news957.com/2013/05/06/municipality-of-colchester-holds-public-hearings...
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New National Sierra Club President in Halifax on Heels of Protests in Washington

February 19, 2013

Howie Chong is the new National President of the Sierra Club Canada, and he is in Halifax this week to meet supporters, and to get input and ideas about organization priorities and direction.

 

He is here to introduce himself to members of the Sierra Club Atlantic, based in Halifax, and to encourage involvement and participation on important regional and national issues including: oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, opposition to fracking, and promoting renewable energy.

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Donkin Coal Mine Community Forum

Come Share Your Concerns, Tell Us Your Values, and Give Recommendations

As part of the environmental assessment for the Donkin Coal Mine, Sierra Club Atlantic invites community members to join us in gathering information about local community values, features in the region that could be impacted by the project, and their recommendations regarding the project.

This information will be used as part of our submission to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency regarding the project, and will be used by regulators to reduce or eliminate environmental impacts of the project.

WHEN: Wednesday, August 29th, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm,

WHERE: Port Morien Fire Hall, Port Morien, Nova Scotia

WHY: To gather local information about concerns & possible impacts as a part of the environmental assessment of the Donkin Coal Mine.... Read more »

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Atlantic Canada Must Unite on Energy, Show National Leadership

July 27, 2012

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Sierra Club Atlantic Petition to Ban Fracking to be Presented to NS Legislature

 

On Thursday, April 5th, at approximately 9 am NDP MLA Gary Burrill will present Sierra Club Canada-Atlantic Chapter’s petition calling for a legislated ban on hydraulic fracturing to the Nova Scotia Legislature.

 

The petition garnered over 2500 signatures  collected in a couple of months and hundreds of these signatures were collected by High School student Chris Dufour.

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Atlantic Leader's Questionnaire

Submitted by Margaret Hoegg on Thu, 2011-04-28 16:34

 

We asked all the candidates in Atlantic Canada to respond to 7 questions that are of concern to Sierra Club members ... and the responses are now compiled!

We believe we have made some headway in educating candidates on many of these issues, and are very grateful for the time they took to answer us during what is a very grueling and stressful time.

What remains is for them to keep their commitments, once they are elected.

We were disappointed that more candidates did not respond to our questionnaire: two candidates from the Liberals and Conservatives answered our questions. The NDP Party took the time to summarize their responses, and we received individual answers from a total 9 Green  and 12 NDP candidates.

Key points of agreement in the answers we received:... Read more »

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Tankers vs. Tank Tops BBQ - Aug. 7th

Submitted by Margaret Hoegg on Mon, 2011-04-04 12:24

 

 

 

Come Learn Firsthand About the Enbridge Pipeline from Grassroots Activist Greer Kaiser 

 

WHEN: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Tuesday, August 7th

WHERE: Ecology Action Centre, 2705 Fern Lane, Halifax 

WHY:... Read more »

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Sierra Club Atlantic Presentation to New Brunswick Energy Commission

2011-02-17

Presented by Larry Lack On behalf of the Sierra Club of Canada, Atlantic Canada Chapter

to

the New Brunswick Energy Commission

The mandate of the Commission is "to conduct a broad public consultation and report to government on a long-term energy plan. More information on the commission and its mandate is available online."

Our report made the following recommendations:

  • conservation should our very first order of business
  • New Brunswick should establish a minimum efficiency for biomass projects
  • encourage and give priority to cooperative, community controlled utilization of our crown lands and other forests
  • create disbursed, well-distributed smaller generating facilities, using diverse power sources including sustainable biomass wood-fired generators and carefully located  wind, wave, tidal and solar energy
  • create incentives for clean renewable energy sources with a policy known as the Feed-in Tariff (FIT)
  • shale gas exploration and development should not be encouraged or permitted in New Brunswick
  • rather than planning on or building for energy exports, New Brunwick should gear its economy around energy self sufficiency for our province and for its diverse regions
  • a healthy, reliable self-sufficient energy system for New Brunswick should and must include net metering of electricity 

For more details on these recommendations, please see the complete document, below.

 

Presentation to New Brunswick Energy Commission

 

On behalf of the Sierra Club of Canada, Atlantic Canada Chapter

17 February 2011

Saint John, New Brunswick

 

Good Afternoon Energy Commission members and Ladies and Gentlemen:

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Nova Scotia: Electro-State

 

Nova Scotia could soon follow in the footsteps of the Alberta tar sands energy boom. But instead of exporting upgraded bitumen, Nova Scotia – the province with the 4th largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions - would play a rather ironic role: that of renewable energy exporter.

“We’re becoming a sort of an electro-state the same way that you can be a petro-state like Alberta where, you know, very few interests really are the dominant players in the society,” says Neal Livingston. “All this hooey we heard about having to be better [grid]-connected to north-eastern North America, when you think about it now, it’s all about our preparation for export.”

Livingston, a filmmaker with 40 titles under his belt, has been a renewable energy practitioner in Cape Breton for 30 years. He owns the Black River brand of renewable energy companies, the holdings of which include a hydro facility and several industrial scale wind turbines in development. This week he delivered a public presentation to a small crowd gathered at The Hub in Halifax.

Livingston has been trying to sound the alarm on Nova Scotia’s energy policy by calling into question the motivations behind the government’s new Renewable Electricity Plan. The recently released plan requires that, by 2025, 40% of the electricity that Nova Scotia Power sells in a given year must come from renewable energy sources.

 

Link to source site: 
http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/nova-scotia-electro-state/5199
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JASON PRIESTLEY JOINS FIGHT TO PROTECT GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE FROM OIL AND GAS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE– November 25, 2010

 

Nova Scotia– The battle to protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence from oil and gas development received a major boost this week when Canadian-born Hollywood celebrity, Jason Priestley, lent his support to the cause. Priestley donated his time and considerable talents to shooting a short video asking for a moratorium on oil and gas in the Gulf.

 

“We are thrilled to have Jason Priestley join the battle to protect our Gulf,” says Gretchen Fitzgerald of Sierra Club Canada. “We hope he will draw greater attention to the critical need for action on this issue.”

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