Newfoundland and Labrador’s historic seal hunt may well have run its course, with marginal returns and dwindling demand, writes John Furlong
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Big job losses at mill: sources
The Corner Brook Pulp and Paper mill has been churning out more than paper in the last day or so amid talk of major job cuts coming down the pipe soon.
Old Harry on hold
In an announcement made Friday afternoon, Corridor Resources has asked the Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board to issue a prohibition order on work until a strategic environmental assesment is complete.
A constitutional challenge
We, the people of Newfoundland, are under-represented in the Canadian House of Parliament and thus have very little say in determining our own path forward in this new century of constant war and environmental decline. If we hope for a better future, then first we must ask, “Is there any …
He who pays the piper …
The devil is clearly in the details. And those details, well, they can sure take a long time to surface. Right in the midst of the provincial election, the provincial government and its energy company, Nalcor, got a shot in the arm for the Muskrat Falls project following the release of a …
On Point | Economics and Muskrat Falls
Two St. John’s economists have come to different conclusions about the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric megaproject.
Waste management strategy forcing tax raises: mayor
STEPHENVILLE Peter Fenwick, mayor of Cape St. George, said if taxes are raised in small communities soon, it will be in no small part due to the burden of implementing the province’s waste management strategy.He raised his concerns with Finance Minister Tom Marshall at the latest round of …
Marshall says mill can survive
Co-operation between government, Kruger and union key to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper’s future: finance minister
Work continuing on salmon hatchery
The first salmon eggs from which smolt will be grown were laid out in incubators at the Stephenville Indian Head Salmon Hatchery in November and December of 2011. That’s according to Larry Ingalls, owner of Northern Harvest Sea Farms Ltd., the company building the Stephenville …
DFO Reviewing Fishing Industry
DFO may be prepared to make changes to an industry that many harvesters feel is over-regulated and micro-managed