Cleaning up the Prince Mine

Nova Scotia's Premier MacDonald claimed that Boularderie Island's coastal woodlands and wetlands are "derelict" and "dangerous" and the old crop pits are a "threat to wildlife" and allowed Pioneer to recover the surface coal to pay for the "remediation". Point Aconi is their flagship "reclamation" test case to show that to "re-mine and reclaim" is the best way and "environmentally right way" to "rehabilitate" and restore old mine sites across the province. The moratorium on "cleaning up" the other sites on DNR's list expires next April 2009 when strip mining will come on stream across the region and province wide if something doesn't drastically change soon.

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• Boularderie
• strip-mining
• Nova
• Scotia
• environment
• coal
• remediation
• reclamation
• Rodney
• MacDonald

[jester9876]

The view of Point Aconi is not actually Point Aconi, it is actually Big Bras d'Or....