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Nova Scotia grants controversial year-long pilot for Lafarge to burn tires...
Nova Scotia’s Environment Department has greenlighted a controversial one-year pilot project at a Lafarge Canada Inc. cement plant in Brookfield, N.S., to burn tires...
