Miles Howe

If the threat of turning Eastern Canada into a fracked gas field has been partially mitigated through newly-legislated provincial moratoriums, the natural gas industry still has a particular pipe dream for the Maritimes' coastline.

Mi'kmaq Warrior Society members Germaine Breau and Aaron Francis were recently sentenced after ninth months in custody for their involvement in a controversial and expensive RCMP raid of an anti-shale gas encampment in New Brunswick last year.

Air pollution and stench from the paper mills flouts federal regulations, compromises locals' health, and kills the potential of tourism.

Pictou County, Nova Scotia is the home of the last of Nova Scotia's "Big Three" mills. Despite higher incidences of cancer, stillbirths, and infant deaths that some residents blame on pollution from the mills, the town remains solidly divided on how to...

The site of the spill is of cultural sensitivity to the Mi'kmaq peoples of Pictou Landing, as it is in direct proximity to a burial ground.

Tuesday morning, staff at Abercrombie Point pulp and paper mill in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, noticed that a pipe carrying raw effluent had sprung a leak and was spewing into the waters of Pictou Harbour. Now the First Nations community in Pictou is...