Monthly Archives: November 2010

Help Ecology Action Centre with a vote

thebigwild.org is running an on-linevote event to give away some funds. Our Ecology Action Centre is one of the five choices from around Canada. EAC is involved in many issues that TREPA supports including playing a major role in coastal … Continue reading

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Are you among the “selected?”

TREPA recently wrote a letter to John MacDonell, Minister of the Department of Agriculture, relative to development of fur farming regulations. We reminded him that the Carleton catchment experience emphasizes the need to manage rural development on the basis of catchment … Continue reading

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Province pursues forest certification

Oh…. Sorry! That headline isn’t about Nova Scotia. It’s about PEI. In recognition of National Forest Week in PEI the Department of Environment, Energy and Forestry announced it will pursue Forest Stewardship Council certification for public lands which includes 75,000 … Continue reading

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Plastic to oil conversion… practical process

This film provides an example of what could be the basis of a green industry in Nova Scotia. We have plenty of plastic with our efficient recycling program and this looks to be a fairly straight forward machine to process … Continue reading

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Water, water, everywhere… no place for it to go

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. If you go back just a few years ago this site was part of Yarmouth’s wetlands and Broad Brook, the central drainage basin of our town, ran through it. The wetland was filled and the brook placed … Continue reading

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