On February 25, the Whale Sanctuary Project announced the selection of Port Hilford near Sherbrooke as the site for North America’s first sanctuary for captive beluga whales. (Click here for the Cooperator’s announcement article. )
The videos below are from the announcement press conference. Charles Vinick, executive director, and President Dr. Lori Marino made the announcement at the Maritime Museum. After an introductory film, they talked about why they selected the site, and took questions from the press. Dr. Stephen Flemming, Executive Director of Sherbrooke Village, Minister Lloyd Hine, Sue Henry from Sheet Harbour also spoke.
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By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
Nova Bluewater Farm, located on a hill in DeBaies Cove, offers spectacular ocean views – and one of the few pockets of fertile farming soil in an area best known for its rocky soil and rugged coastline. The farm belongs to Jim Turner and his partner Paul Nicholl, who bought the farm in 2002. Turner is a horticulturist, and one of the few certified organic farmers on the Eastern Shore. The farm has been certified as organic since 2008 and does not use chemicals or synthetic products, relying instead on integrating living systems.
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By Karen Bradley
From the United Nations Sustainable Development program on down, there’s surprising agreement that developing locally based businesses, especially businesses founded by young people, is a key to reducing rural poverty.
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By Janice Christie
In September of 2009, the Bradleys, Jim and Margaret, were taking a road trip along the Eastern Shore on their way to Cape Breton. They made a stop at a little local island called Sober Island.
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By Richard Bell
Musquodoboit Harbour’s Catherine Berry is on track to realize one the great ambitions of so many distance runners: running the fabled Boston Marathon, one of the world’s major Marathons, and New England’s most widely viewed sporting event, with more than 500,000 people cheering the runners along the hilly route. (Grand Desert’s Susan Cargill has also qualified for this marathon.)
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By Kathy MacPherson
When people talk about the importance of supporting the local economy to create local jobs, I think about Paul Nicholl and his Dobbit Bakehouse in Musquodoboit Harbour. Almost everything about Dobbit’s is locally sourced, from the ingredients right through the bakers themselves (of whom I am one!).
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By Richard Bell
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) has opened a new front in its battle against the proposed Cochrane Hill open-pit gold mine in Guysborough County with an unprecedented underwater video of salmon spawning in a stream immediately downstream from a tailings pond that would millions of tons of mine waste.
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By Karen Schlick
Summary of the true story so far: After losing the family cat, I adopted an abandoned mother cat and three kittens. They were kept in all winter. Spayed and tamed, the saga continues in spring.
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Editorial
If you think that the paper you’re holding in your hands feels somehow slightly different, you’re right. In November, the Canada media conglomerate Torstar shut down its Nova Scotia paper, the Halifax Star. And almost immediately, the Cooperator’s long-time printer, Transcontinental (TCI) announced that losing the Star business was forcing it to close its plant on PEI.
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By Richard Bell
The Whale Sanctuary Project announced this morning at a press conference at the Maritime Museum in Halifax that it had selected Port Hilford at the site of the world’s first sanctuary for captive beluga whales, working with Sherbrooke and the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s. The Project had narrowed the choice down to the Sherbrooke site and a site off Malagash Island in Mushaboom.
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