Nicole Hancock
Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony ...

Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.

Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony to heal Chedoke Creek

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Cape Breton group, non-profit environmental association at odds over Glace Bay dam waterway

Cape Breton group, non-profit environmental association at odds over Glace Bay dam waterway

A dispute is heating up between a Glace Bay fishing group and a Cape Breton non-profit environmental organization, and tying in a local MLA and the Cape Breton Regional Municipality over what’s being described as alleged toxicity in the water of a community dam. Donald McNeil, president of the Glace Bay-based #20 Dam Fishing Association, is claiming the water spilling through #20 Dam, located near a body of water that’s part of John Bernard Croak Memorial Park, contains “high levels of fecal coliform, a potentially dangerous bacteria, to both humans and animals,” based on a series of tests McNeil’s group conducted this past summer.

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