Cloe Logan

Reporter Halifax

About Cloe Logan

Cloe Logan is Canada's National Observer's Atlantic reporter covering climate, the environment and politics. Cloe also contributes to reporting on federal policy thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative and the Government of Canada.

After graduating from the Langara Journalism program, she worked as a staff reporter for the Parksville Qualicum Beach News on Vancouver Island covering municipal politics. Prior to that, she contributed to an investigation into inauthentic Indigenous art sold in Vancouver's souvenir shops with The Discourse.

253 Articles

A wild juvenile Atlantic salmon. Photo by USFWS - Pacific Region via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Nova Scotia presses pause on new fish farm applications

The Nova Scotia government says no new fish farm applications will be accepted until it completes a campaign promise mapping what areas are best suited for aquaculture. The moratorium doesn’t include a fourfold expansion already proposed by the industry.

News | March 22nd 2023

Lawyers and professors rally against proposed changes to lobbying rules

Opponents say lobbying stands to become more unethical if suggested changes from the commissioner of lobbying Nancy Bélanger go through. Faisal Bhabha, an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, said he signed the letter released by lobbying watchdog group Democracy Watch because current rules “help protect the integrity of our fragile democracy.”

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News | March 8th 2023

Feds, Equinor push back in court clash over offshore oil project

Lawyers representing Equinor and the federal government on Thursday pushed back against arguments that Canada’s first deepwater offshore oil project, Bay du Nord, was unlawfully approved.

News | March 2nd 2023

The Sierra Club Canada Foundation and the Council of Canadians demonstrate in solidarity against the Bay du Nord oil drilling project outside Federal Court in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Case against Bay du Nord approval kicks off in Federal Court

In April 2022, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault approved Bay du Nord, stating it was environmentally sound. He determined the project, about 500 kilometres east of St. John’s in Newfoundland, “is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.”

News | March 1st 2023

Matthew Abbott of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick in front of the Irving Pulp and Paper mill in Saint John, N.B. Photo by Keith Minchin/Canada’s National Observer

Billionaire Irvings get help from the feds

In December, Export and Development Canada advanced Irving Pulp and Paper a loan to help build a waste treatment facility it promised to build after pleading guilty to dumping improperly treated effluent into the Saint John River.

News | March 1st 2023

Court ruling in Atlantic Canada a ‘major win’ for environmental justice

Initially, the Ecology Action Centre and New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance were denied their bid for a judicial review of an environmental approval for a highway realignment, needed for Goldboro LNG, an on-again, off-again project in Guysborough County.

News | February 23rd 2023