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Contract Position available.
The Ecology Action Centre is offering a 12 week contract position for
someone to work as Public Wildlands Coordinator.
Tasks will include coordinating an advertising campaign, being a media
contact, fundraising, and building partnerships for the NS Public Lands
Coalition.
Experience in wilderness advocacy, and good written, interpersonal, and
communication skills considered assets.
The position begins January 28, 2002. It pays $3,000 total.
Please provide resume and cover letter to the Wilderness Committee,
Ecology
Action Centre, 31-1568 Argyle St., Halifax, NS B3J 2B3., or by fax (902)
422-6410 or by e-mail to kdegooyer@hotmail.com by 4pm on Wednesday
January 16th.
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END OF MESSAGE. CBC enviro news-briefs follow:
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APPEAL COURT RULES AGAINST ABORIGINAL DEER-JACKING
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ruled aboriginal people do not have
the right to hunt at night using a light.
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http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_ruling170102
U.S. TO HELP IDENTIFY HIGH-RISK CONTAINERS
There are reports intelligence officers from the United States will soon be
working in the port of Halifax, side by side with Canada customs agents.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_customs170102
POWER INCREASE BLAMED ON LACK OF NATURAL GAS
The collapse of the Sempra gas distribution plan is being linked to a nine
per cent rate hike Nova Scotia Power is looking for.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_hike020116
HALIFAX MAKES A PLEA FOR SALT
Halifax Regional Municipality is asking Environment Canada to rethink
declaring salt a toxic substance.
The city says the alternatives to salt are too expensive.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_saltdebate020116
LAST STAND FOR A LAST STAND
A conservation group from Chester is fighting to save one of Nova Scotia's
oldest remaining forests.
The group wants Bowater to call off its plan to clear-cut 3,000
acres in Lunenburg County.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_laststand020116
CANSO IN CRISIS: THIBAULT ASKED TO HELP
The town of Canso is asking the newly appointed Fisheries Minister to help
keep the local fish plant, and the economy, afloat.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_canso160102
WINTER STORM BRINGS MORE SNOW
Most schools in Nova Scotia closed on Wednesday as another winter storm
covered the province. Schools in the Halifax area were the big exception:
they stayed open.
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http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_school160102
FISHERMEN ORDERED BACK TO WORK
The Labour Relations Board has issued a cease and desist order against
offshore sea scallop fishermen in Lunenburg.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_injunction011802
SHRIMP FISHERMEN PREPARED FOR FIGHT: WARK
Angry scallop fishermen from across Nova Scotia's south shore met in
Bridgewater Thursday night to discuss the lowest scallop prices in 20 years.
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http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_shrimp011802
CAPE BRETONERS' HEALTH NOT GOOD
People in Cape Breton have the lowest
life expectancy in the country and smoking remains the number one
preventable cause of disease.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_homeless020117
CB BACTERIA OUTBREAK 'COMMON' BUG
A number of patients at the Glace Bay General Hospital are being treated for
an outbreak of a staphylococcus bacteria.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_bug011802
TRAWLER PROTEST IN LUNENBURG
Crew members of Scotia Trawler scallop boats were ordered to return to work
by Nova Scotia's Labour Relations Board Thursday after 25 of them refused to
go fishing.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_trawler020117
EXPERT SAYS FISHERY STATISTICS NEED OVERHAUL
One of Canada's leading fisheries
experts says Ottawa must change the way
it measures the health of the fishery.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_fish020117
U.S. TO HELP IDENTIFY HIGH-RISK CONTAINERS
There are reports intelligence officers from the United States will soon be
working in the port of Halifax, side by side with Canada customs agents.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_customs170102
BOIL ORDER ISSUED FOR BRIDGETOWN
A boil water advisory has been issued for the community of
Bridgetown, after an auxiliary chlorinator failed to kick in during a power
outage earlier
this week.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_boil011802
LIBERALS QUESTION DECLINING MAINE POWER RATES
Liberal energy critic Manning MacDonald wants to know why power rates appear
to be going up in Nova Scotia &-; but down in Maine.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_rates011802
CANSO IN CRISIS: THIBAULT ASKED TO HELP
The town of Canso is asking the newly appointed Fisheries Minister to help
keep the local fish plant, and the economy, afloat.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_canso160102
MOUNTIE RESIGNS OVER CHILD PORN CASE
A former member of the Yarmouth RCMP detachment has resigned after being
charged with possession of child pornography.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_pornmount020116
'FRANK' READERS 'SHARING IN SIN': BISHOP
A Roman Catholic bishop in Nova Scotia is warning people not to read 'Frank'
magazine because it is 'evil'.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/editorServlets/View?filename=ns_frank011802
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