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Groups:
No more room for mink manure.May
24, 2013
A 2011 study, prepared for the Nova Scotia
Environment Department, suggested the most
probable source of nutrients damaging local
waterways comes from the mink industry |
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 Not wild-eyed radicals January 31, 2013 By
Stephen Hawboldt
The advisory committee in its
deliberations might want to look very carefully at
questions related to setbacks from waterways,
wetlands and wells, proximity to groundwater
recharge areas, the handling of mink food and
carcasses and the land application of
nutrient-rich mink manure and other wastes. It
could well be that there are some areas in the
Annapolis Valley where the risks of surface and
groundwater contamination are too great to permit
mink farming. http://www.annapoliscountyspectator.ca/Opinion
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Mink
have more teeth than fur
farm regulations
Regulations
a complete wreck, says Suzuki Foundation John Werring,
Aquatic Habitat Specialist The senior science and
policy advisor for the David Suzuki
Foundation says he doesn't think the people
of Nova Scotia are any better served with
the introduction of new fur farm regulations
than they were by what was in place before.
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Province
missed its chance: January 21, 2013 -
13:55 —
The mink industry in those nations is tightly
regulated, with strict enforcement and severe
financial penalties for infractions. The result?
Good incomes for mink producers, clean air and
water, and citizens generally content with mink
facilities as neighbours.
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Guest
Editorial: Nova Scotia sitting duck in mink
debate?
January 24, 2013 - 08:13 — Debbie Hall
Nova Scotia
is a sitting duck in this regard - a tiny mink
industry already existed here for decades and
there is a well-established political bent for
allowing anything perceived to make a buck /
create jobs (no matter the facts - perception
rules). Did you ever notice the Department of
Agriculture never substantiates their claims on
the industry's financial value to Nova Scotia?
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Fur Farm Act Means Election
Coming or It's
Payback time
Subject:
Is this the "same old" fur farm act?
by John Horton
Darrell Dexter's NDP
government finally published the Fur Farm Act.
Some think this is nothing more than a
confidential wish list of ways to avoid pesky
environmental laws affecting the fur farm
industry..... This Document is not
about law. Instead it's a Contract of
Entitlements that will allow business as usual
for the fur industry. There is not one single
recommended treatment ...
 .More....
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Mink
Regs: The “Scoop on Poop”
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/467370-mink-farm-regs-the-scoop-on-poop
Letter re published Mink Reg Jan 17
2013 Julia Bancroft
Approximately five years ago
residents of Yarmouth and surrounding areas
joined together and formed the Tricounty
Watershed Protection Association to stop the
pollution being caused by mink farms at the
headwaters of the Meteghan, Sissaboo, and
Tusket Rivers. The fur farm regulations that
have now been passed into law are watered
down even more and have no real defined
consequences such as fines for
non-compliance and would appear to be
un-enforceable. Almost none of our concerns
were addressed .....
More....
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Mink
stink II: "The only teeth in these regulations
are in the mouth of the mink."
January 18, 2013 Julia Bancroft
Julia
Bancroft tells a tale of powerlessness
in the fight to protect lakes and rivers
in her community from the pollution
produced by the fast-growing and
lucrative mink industry.
Bancroft is a member of the
Tricounty Watershed Protection
Association and lives in Yarmouth, NS.
In addition to a long list of
concerns over the inefficacy of the new
provincial regulations governing the
industry, Bancroft is also concerned
about the lack of information that
is freely available about farms,
and the lack of support she's received
from her political
representatives.
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Mink
stink: new regs will not stop pollution of
lakes and rivers in NS
January 18, 2013
NS
is home to over 2 million mink on
farms that are polluting rivers
and lakes. The provincial
government has just passed new
regulations to help solve the
problem, but according to Gretchen
Fitzgerald at Sierra Club
Atlantic, the new laws do little
to nothing to stop the pollution.
The Sierra Club,
along with Ecology Action Centre, East Coast
Environmental Law Association, Tri-County
Watershed Protection Association, and David
Suzuki Foundation issued a press release
outlining major problems with the new
regulations, including the ability to waive
the enforcement of the regulations at the
bureaucratic level.
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Advocates slam
watered down mink farming regulations
CBC News Posted: Jan 17, 2013
7:27 PM AT
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/01/17/ns-mink-farm-regulations.html
The Ecology Action Centre is accusing the
government of bowing down to an industry with
annual exports of about $100 million. Nova Scotia's mink
farming regulations are diluted and not doing
enough to ebb harmful algae blooms in streams
and lakes in southwestern |
happened at Little Lake Doucette??