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The McNeil Government’s shift from recycling tires to burning them has sparked an angry response from environmental groups.
Lafarge Canada’s cement plant in Brookfield would be allowed to burn tires instead of coal in a one-year pilot project.
Mark Butler of the Ecology Action Centre is baffled by the Environment Department’s approval. Butler says this goes against one of the fundamentals…recycling is preferred over burning plastic or rubber.
More and more people are adding their names to the waiting list for a family doctor, according to CBC. There are now 33,216 up from 25,000 in March.
The Health Authority is hoping to cut that sharply with the 4,150 names which have been sent to physicians around the province, although it admits not all will be successful in getting a doctor.
Nancy MacCready-Williams, CEO of Doctors Nova Scotia, told a legislature committee doctors continue to age and retire and right now there are 118 doctor vacancies around the province.