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St. Mary's River Association

EXITING NEWS FROM THE ST MARY'S RIVER ASSOCIATION FROM NOVEMBER 25TH 2020. 
Watch CTV Atlantic
Live at 5
and the
Global News Morning
Halifax
Show.  

Dave Gunning and Jamie Robinson of Pictou NS pen a song to support our NOPE Campaign.
Click here for the lyrics and
click here for the video.
Read the Guysborough Journal
article at Songwriter pens new anthem to protest gold mine.
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The Atlantic Salmon Federation, NS Salmon Association and St Mary's River Association held a press conference in Halifax recently to showcase a video (done by Tom Cheney and Nick Hawkins) of salmon getting ready to spawn in McKeen Brook, Nova Scotia.
View the video here.
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TOOKER GOMBERG AWARD
The river association and Atlantic Salmon Federation are awarded second place for the Tooker Gomberg Award from the Ecology Action Centre for this video.  
View the details here.
ARCHIBALD LAKE WILDERNESS AREA
Review the information below to get details of how this area could be
protected from the Cochrane Hill Gold Mine project.

Click here for the link to a CBC article from January 10, 2020.

Click here for a link to Dr. Kevin Spencer's video regarding Archibald Lake.

A Guysborough Journal article on the status of the new protected provincial park in the St. Mary's River Valley.
View the article here.
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2019 – 2020 
SMRA has spent about 2.5 million on habitat restoration and liming since 2014.  We have completed 600 square meters of in stream structure work which is about 20 linear km.  During the Fall of 2020 we spread approximately 850 tons of lime over 200 acres on our West branch.  This project will help mitigate low pH levels and is the first of its kind in the St. Mary’s River Valley. 
Our Association still says NOPE (No Open Pit Excavation)!  Our fight to protect our most precious resource started late summer 2018.  Now over two years later we still find ourselves immersed in the battle.  We strongly believe for our communities in the District of St. Mary’s survival and ability to prosper depends on the St Mary’s River and its ecosystems thriving! 
Here at the St. Mary’s River Association are committed to doing everything we can to protect the St. Mary’s River and our clean water.  We encourage you to join us and do the same.
Thank you all for your continued support.

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COCHRANE HILL GOLD PROJECT
Click here to go to our new blog regarding the proposed Cochrane Hill Gold Mine.



​December 2018 - Adult Atlantic salmon broodstock being returned to Nova Scotia's St. Mary's River
Dan MacIntosh from CTV News interviews our president, Scott Beaver. 
Check out the video from December 20, 2018

St. Mary's River Association
8404 Hwy 7,  PO Box 179,  Sherbrooke NS,  Canada   B0J 3C0
​Email:   stmarysriver@ns.sympatico.ca   Tel: (902) 522-2099   Fax: 902 522-2241

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