The steel plant in Sydney, N.S., has been gone for more than 20 years, but the earthen dam built in 1913 to provide water for the industry still serves a purpose. It's getting some much-needed repairs.
HALIFAX Residents of a small town 250 kilometres east of Halifax are fighting to prevent the removal of a hunk of black metal that has been sitting offshore for the past 100 years. It s just a big, rusty boiler, Rachel Langley, resident of Drum Head, N.S., said in an interview Monday. Maybe it is an eyesore, but it means something. The boiler is an important feature of life in the community of 37 people, Langley said, adding that for years, the metal has been a point of interest for divers and fishers. The boiler is the last remaining piece of the Scotia, a steam-powered vessel that was destroyed by fire in 1921, damaging cargo worth $75,000 at the time.
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 28
Aerators churn up toxic mill waste at Boat Harbour before it was decommissioned as an effluent treatment facility in January 2020.(Steve Lawrence/CBC)
A Nova Scotia company says it could turn hundreds of millions of litres of polluted sludge from Boat Harbour into a non-toxic construction material, offering an alternative to the current plan to permanently store the dredged sediment in a massive tank on site.
Boat Harbour was once a tidal estuary, but for more than 50 years it acted as a receptacle for industrial waste from the nearby and now shuttered Abercrombie, N.S., pulp and paper mill currently owned by Northern Pulp.
Sydney s road to nowhere finally opens after 7 years
What was once called the road to nowhere is now providing opportunities for development on the former site of the Sydney steel plant in Cape Breton, N.S.
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Federal funding secured to assist in removal of 14 abandoned vessels in N.S.
The province has secured federal funding to remove 14 abandoned vessels from across Nova Scotia. The funding comes from Ottawa s Abandoned Boats Program.
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Posted: Feb 22, 2021 12:56 PM AT | Last Updated: February 22
Nova Scotia Lands has received funding to clean up 14 sunken vessels, including boats in Margaree Harbour and the Mira river in Cape Breton. (Nova Scotia Lands)
The province has secured federal funding to remove 14 abandoned vessels from across Nova Scotia.
The funding comes from Transport Canada s Abandoned Boats Program. This work will stop the environmental impacts these abandoned vessels have on the shoreline and communities, Nova Scotia Lands president Stephen MacIsaac stated in a news release.