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HRM Diverse is a nature literacy program geared towards engaging members of the public with any degree of experience with nature, be it little or none. HRM Diverse presently consists of two experiences for participants.Congratulations Colchester County for stopping the release of Fracking wastewater: NOFRAC
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Halifax, NS – Community and environmental groups, members of the Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition, applaud the Municipality of Colchester Municipal Sewer Use Appeal Committee for its decision not to allow the release of fracking wastewater through the Debert sewage system. ... Read more »
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Sierra Club Congratulates Inverness County, Nova Scotia for Passing Historic Fracking Ban
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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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Appeal of the decision to allow the discharge of Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater from Atlantic Industrial Services’ facility into the Debert Sewer System
2013-04-10
c/o Sheila Arsenault, County Executive Secretary
P.O. BOX 697,
TRURO, NS
B2N 5E7
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