This is Giant Mine
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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This is Giant Mine
It's a 900-hectare maze of dusty tailings ponds, yawning open pits, poisoned water, toxic soil and decaying buildings full of arsenic.
It's the second most contaminated site in Canada, a billion-dollar cleanup project being paid for by taxpayers after the company folded.
Giant Mine is located within Yellowknife's city limits, casting a long shadow on the city in the form of arsenic dust that has coated the lakes and soil in and around the city.
We sent photographer Matt Jacques and deputy editor Jimmy Thomson to see the site for themselves. Check that story out here.
Read on for a new scoop about how the Site C dam decision was made, Alberta's economic alternatives, our analysis of what Doug Ford's premiership means and a Q&A with the founder of a new waste-free grocery store.
Emma Gilchrist
Editor-in-Chief, The Narwhal
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By James WiltMany environmentalists cringed when Doug Ford took home the big prize in Ontario last week. Nestled comfortably in among his platform was a promise to abandon the province's cap-and-trade system.
It gets worse. Read more.
Bureaucrats prepared Site C dam press release a week before NDP reportedly made decision to proceed
By Sarah CoxOur Legislative reporter spent the weekend poring over hundreds of pages of documents released through Freedom of Information requests. This is what she discovered. Read more.
Meet Jimmy.
Jimmy Thomson is our new deputy editor, based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.He got his start in the North at CBC, as a videojournalist covering the South Slave region. He studied journalism at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, but came to it late: he started out studying sea slug neuroanatomy, then guiding in the Arctic and Antarctic. Journalism always held special appeal, though, especially as a way to tell stories of environmental injustice like the corporate welfare system that resulted in horrific pollution of his family's home community in Nova Scotia.
His goal right now is to try out different ways of doing environmental journalism, but he's got interests outside the field as well. Jimmy was an editor at a satire magazine called the Syrup Trap, has made short films for the Dead North Film Festival two years running, published a paper in the Journal of Comparative Neurology, had drone video in a feature film and has credits on a new song by Hannah Georgas.
Throughout the summer you'll find him camping along Great Slave Lake someplace, and when it freezes up in November he'll be back out skijoring with his dog, Glenn. He's on Twitter too often at @jwsthomson.
Paper? Plastic? Or Nada? Waste-free grocery store aims to put a lid on ocean plastic
By Jimmy Thomson
Brianne Howard wanted to help protect whales. So she started a grocery store.
If that doesn't seem like one follows from the other, check out this Q&A with the Nada Grocery founder to see how she sees supply chains as integral to ocean health. Read more.
What’s cheaper than a pipeline? An overhaul of the Alberta economy
By Peter DietschNeither a simple yes nor a simple no to the pipeline would represent an acceptable compromise. What would?
Kinder Morgan pipeline will cost well over $11 billion. Ottawa could spend that instead to help pivot Alberta away from oil and gas. r33 Copyright © 2018 The Narwhal, All rights reserved.
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