The proposed changes to the Environment Act would create a pricing system based on greenhouse gas output, Environment Minister Tim Halman told reporters, adding that the new plan would also include targets and performance standards to be set out in regulations.
Nova Scotia's Environment Minister Tim Halman Friday rejected two appeals aimed at stopping a developer from building a road on a section of wetland in Dartmouth.
At a press conference in Halifax on Thursday, federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault said in order to meet new federal requirements on carbon by next year, the province will have to make a decision “in the coming weeks.”
The owners of the Touquoy gold mine in Nova Scotia say they have received approval from the provincial Environment Department to raise the height of the wall of its existing tailings waste pond.