Steven Wendland

Sloughs of Despond

Wendland — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:29:12 +0000

Fracking wastewater ponds languish in Hants County

HALIFAX: Hydraulic fracturing wastewater shown to contain high levels of radioactive contaminants has been sitting in two open containment pits in Hants County, Nova Scotia since 2007, the Media Co-op has learned.

A Freedom of Information request has also revealed that the water likely contains a slew of other chemicals, including known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors.

It Takes a Village to Raise a Vegetable

Wendland — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:32:20 +0000

Food consciousness coalesces at ACORN conference

“Farmers need a shitload of support,” says Amy Lounder, an organic farmer who runs Avon River CSA (community-shared, or community-supported, agriculture) in Centre Burlington, NS. “And not just financial support but support in a lot of different ways, like support in information, of learning how to problem solve.”

Murky Waters

Hillary — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:58:22 +0000

Contentious mink farm development given green light.

YARMOUTH COUNTY, NS-- A proposed mink ranch development on Sloans Lake appears to be moving forward, much to the consternation of area residents who had been under the impression that the development application had been rejected under a municipal land-use bylaw.

The Land that Feeds

Hillary — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:11:23 +0000

Rural community divided over proposal to rezone farmland

GREENWICH, NS—A proposal to rezone 380 acres of active farmland in the hamlet of Greenwich, Kings County, has raised public concern over food security, cultural history, and sustainable community-planning in Nova Scotia’s fertile Annapolis Valley.

Communities Rally to Defend their Water

Hillary — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:48:25 +0000

Tension grows over mink farming in Yarmouth County

HALIFAX--A proposal for a lakeside mink ranch near Carleton, Nova Scotia - roughly 20 kilometres north of Yarmouth - has resulted in some community members calling on the provincial government for a moratorium on lakeside farming. Residents are worried their lake will be condemned to the same fate as many other water-bodies in the Carleton River watershed, which have been overrun by blue-