Provincial Entitlement to Gas Trunk Line Ownership - Enforceability and Constitutionality

The author discusses the interpretation of section 40 of the Nova Scotia Accord Act (Canada) and the Nova Scotia Accord Act (Nova Scotia). The section provides that the Government of Nova Scotia be given a reasonable opportunity to acquire on a commercial basis up to a fifty percent ownership in the Nova Scotia trunkine in certain circumstances. He points out that even though the dispute between the Federal and Provincial governments regarding the ownership of the offshore appears to be on hold, the issue is relevant to the application of section 40

Imposing Discipline Upon Nature: Gardens, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in Cape Breton, 1713-1758

This paper examines horticulture in Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and focuses on the French attempt to grow food through the introduction of gardens, animals and small mixed farms (menageries). Adapting to the colder climate and marginal soil of first, Newfoundland, and then Cape Breton, the French introduced innovative solutions to the difficulties of land infertility. The French had confidence—given enough manpower—that anything was possible. By building roads, bridges, filling marshes, removing rocks, transporting rich soil, making raised beds, creating ponds, wells, fountains, using glass bells, fertilizer, seaweed, lime and compost, they imposed a discipline upon nature and transformed the most barren ground into bountiful gardens. Résumé Cet article sur l’horticulture dans l’Île Royale (Cap-Breton) décrit les efforts des Français pour subvenir à leurs besoins alimentaires au moyen de potagers, de bétail et de petites fermes mixtes («ménageries»). Pour composer avec le climat plus froid et le sol mince de Terre-Neuve, puis du Cap-Breton, les Français ont appliqué diverses solutions novatrices au problème de la pauvreté des sols. Convaincus que rien n’était impossible s’ils y mettaient la main-d’œuvre suffisante, les Français ont construit des routes et des ponts, rempli des marécages, épierré les sols, importé du terreau fertile, aménagé des plates-bandes surélevées, créé des étangs, des puits et des fontaines, utilisé des cloches de verre, de l’engrais, des algues, du calcaire et du compost, bref, ils ont plié la nature à leurs besoins et transformé les terres les plus pauvres en généreux potagers

Trans-Atlantic Sheep, Regional Development, and the Cape Breton Development Corporation, 1972-1982

Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) – a federal Crown corporation created in 1967 – was charged with stimulating employment to compensate for the decline of island coal mining. Following the failure of industrial promotion, DEVCO adopted a participatory regional development practice between 1972 and 1982. With specific reference to sheep producers, this article argues that DEVCO focused on imparting entrepreneurship, boosting production, and selling a particular kind of Cape Breton. However, DEVCO objectives were undermined by the very capitalist processes they sought to amend. The Cape Breton sheep story provides a way into the broader history of regional development in these years.La Société de développement du Cap-Breton (SDCB), une société d’État fédérale créée en 1967, était chargée de stimuler l’emploi afin de compenser le déclin de l’exploitation du charbon dans l’île. Après l’échec des efforts de promotion industrielle, la SDCB a adopté une approche participative du développement régional entre 1972 et 1982. En ce qui concerne particulièrement les producteurs ovins, cet article fait valoir que la SDCB s’est employée à transmettre l’esprit d’entreprise, à accroître la production et à vendre une conception particulière du Cap-Breton. Les procédés capitalistes mêmes qu’ils cherchaient à modifier ont cependant compromis les objectifs de la SDCB. L’histoire de l’industrie ovine au Cap-Breton permet d’aborder l’histoire plus générale du développement régional au cours de ces années

AN EXAMINATION OF THE ABSENCE OF ESTABLISHED MOOSE (ALCES ALCES) POPULATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

An analysis was performed on habitat-related factors for the southeastern side of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia to investigate the continued absence of moose (Alces alces) from the region. Temperature and snow depth, at times, reach levels that could cause thermal stress or impede movement of moose; however, it is unlikely that these factors dictate the absence of moose. No clear relationships were established between environmental concentration levels of the heavy metals molybdenum, cadmium, copper, and lead and moose distribution; however, high concentration levels of molybdenum in the Cape Breton study area warrant further investigation. Road density assessments showed that the study area has a higher level of road density compared to 2 mainland control sites; however, higher road density occurs in other areas in which moose persist. Anthropogenic factors such as poaching were not considered influential enough to exclude moose. A forest habitat comparison analysis was performed to identify habitat features that were statistically correlated with moose presence, and then were applied in a probability model to predict moose presence in the study area. The logistic regression model used to predict the probability of moose presence was composed of positively associated forest inventory variables (softwood average maturity, hardwood average maturity, % mixed hardwood, % non-forested area, total wetland area) that best fit the data. The model identified 43% of the Cape Breton study area as having a high-probability weighting for moose presence. Overall, this study did not reveal a clearly identifiable cause for the continued absence of moose in southeastern Cape Breton Island

The Line to the North 1910

The Line to the North 191

Liochlorophis, L. vernalis

Number of Pages: 13Integrative BiologyGeological Science

Long-term Field Performance of Geomembrane-Lined Cover Systems at Mine Waste Rock Piles

Mine waste rock piles (WRPs) are anthropogenically created landforms at active and former mining sites that can generate and release highly toxic acid mine drainage (AMD) to the environment. A common solution to control AMD generation is the use of cover systems at the WRPs to isolate the reactive waste from water and oxygen in the atmosphere. Geomembranes exhibit the characteristics needed to be highly effective barriers to atmospheric influx; however, knowledge on their performance at in-service WRPs is limited. The objective of this thesis is to comprehensively assess the field performance of geomembrane-lined cover systems for limiting meteoric water to the waste rock. Four coal mine WRPs located in the Sydney Coalfield in Nova Scotia, Canada, were reclaimed with different cover systems and then extensively monitored for seven years. Defect leakage and water balances methods were employed to determine the daily water flux through the cover systems at each WRP over seven years. Results demonstrated that the inclusion of geomembrane liners in cover systems reduced the water influx from 28% of precipitation to as low as 0.05%. Furthermore, the composition of the drainage layer overlying the geomembrane influences the water influx, with native soil, granular material and geocomposite nets providing influx rates of 3%, 0.5% and 0.05%, respectively. This thesis highlights the role of geomembrane liners and drainage layers in engineered cover systems for significantly limiting the influx of meteoric water to mine waste rock