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    <title>GoldboroLNG Owner </title>
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    <title>Truth, Deception, and Nova Scotia’s Mass Shooting</title>
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                    the Victims, and the Command of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police        &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday night April 18, 2020&lt;/strong&gt; Portapique&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Among the first victims of shooter Gabriel Wortman:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Lisa McCully&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Greg Blair&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Alton Gas Refuses Public Examination of Consumer Savings Promise</title>
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                    &lt;img src=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/12719175_1738245213061880_3942111837755890807_o_0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Opponents of the Alton Gas project raising Mi&amp;#039;Kmaq and Canadian flags at the site. The company has since surrounded the flags with a fence.&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; height=&quot;338&quot; class=&quot;imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default&quot;/&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;western&quot; lang=&quot;en-US&quot;&gt;In an earlier Media Coop article, we took a stab at putting under the microscope the Alton Gas claim of $17million annual savings for Nova Scotia consumers.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/alton-gas-refuses-public-examination-consumer-savi/35443&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>What About Those Big Savings Alton Gas Claims for Consumers ?</title>
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                    Alleged $17 Million Savings Mentioned At Every Opportunity        &lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Did the NS Assembly of Mi&#039;kmaq Chiefs Green Light the Alton Gas Project?</title>
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&lt;p class=&quot;western&quot; lang=&quot;en-US&quot;&gt;When Energy Minister Samson announced that the government was going to grant all the necessary approvals for the Alton Gas Brine Processing and Discharge Facility o&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 09:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Without the Mi&#039;kmaq Would There be ANY Government Oversight of the Alton Gas Project?</title>
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&lt;p class=&quot;western&quot; lang=&quot;en-US&quot;&gt;The Alton Gas project plans to form three underground caverns for natural gas storage by using Shubenacadie River water injected into natural salt beds, with the removed salt coming out as brine discharged back into the river.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 01:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title> Tall Tales on Alton Gas From The Environment Minister</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Our Liberal Nova Scotia government&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/alton-natural-gas-environment-minister-dismisses-appeals-sipekne-katik-chief-1.3541732&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; recently dismissed appeals&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;of their approval of brine discharge into the Shubenacadie River estuary for the Alton Gas storage project.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Last October, 2015, the provincial government was consulting on the Alton Gas project with the Assembly of Chiefs of Nova Scotia.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title>Mi’Kmaq and the Government on Alton Gas Project: Collision Course?</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: &lt;/strong&gt;The Nova Scotia&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Energy Minister is making announcements about the Alton Gas project at a news conference tomorrow morning [Thursday]. Stay tuned...&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Jitters Hit Fracking Activists in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick</title>
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&lt;p align=&quot;LEFT&quot; class=&quot;western&quot; lang=&quot;en-US&quot;&gt;A year ago, the fracking moratoria in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were announced by the respective Liberal governments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/jitters-hit-fracking-activists-nova-scotia-and-new/34288&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p class=&quot;DefaultStyle&quot;&gt;Kennetcook, Nova Scotia -- Nova Scotia Minister of Environment Randy Delorey has chosen a method of draining and processing the fracking waste water ponds that have been in Kennetcook for over 7 years. Commenting on the planned end of their long wait&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/fracking-legacy-dumps-kennetcook-again/33755&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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                    &lt;img src=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img2_0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;The fight about Boat Harbour between the government and Northern Pulp promises to be a long one. Their appeal of the mills&amp;#039; new Industrial Approval is Northern Pulp&amp;#039;s first shot. &quot; width=&quot;450&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; class=&quot;imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default&quot;/&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Following a decades-long history of broken promises to the Pictou Landing First Nation, the Liberal government in April passed the&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/northern-pulp-to-shut-boat-harbour-waste-treatment-plant-in-2020-1.3037280&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Boat Harbour Act&lt;/a&gt;, setting a definite date for the closure of the waste water treatment facility used by the pulp mill at Abercrombie po&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/power-play/33659&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p align=&quot;LEFT&quot; class=&quot;western&quot; lang=&quot;fr-FR&quot;&gt;Public opinion in Nova Scotia is blowing very strongly against Northern Pulp&amp;#39;s Abercrombie Point mill in Pictou.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/heat-turns-northern-pulp/33224&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 06:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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                    &lt;img src=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_0990_1_0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Between 1989-2014, the Ministry of the Environment was soft-handed with the Abercrombie Point pulp mill in Pictou, Nova Scotia. During that time, despite breaking numerous federal emissions thresholds, sometimes by thousands of percentage points, the mill was issued all of three warnings. Now, with the threat of a new, &amp;#039;tougher&amp;#039;, Industrial Approval looming, the mill laments that new regulations will destroy its competitive edge. [Photo: M. Howe] &quot; width=&quot;450&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; class=&quot;imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default&quot;/&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p align=&quot;LEFT&quot; class=&quot;western&quot;&gt;PICTOU, Nova Scotia - Ever since the January 30th, 2015, announcement by Nova Scotia Minister of Environment Randy Delorey on the long awaited timeline for phased air and water pollution reductions for the Abercrombie Point pulp mill, owners Northern Pulp have been protesting the requirements in the new operating permi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/northern-pulp-shifts-gears-aggressive-offense/33190&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p align=&quot;LEFT&quot; class=&quot;western&quot;&gt;Even an occasional look at the Nova Scotia fracking waste water saga probably familiarises a person with the name&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/fracking-waste-disposal-colchester-county-steps/17589&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Atlantic Industrial Services&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/fracking-waste-water-redux-even-worse-new-brunswic/33074&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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