Over the past 15 years or so there had been growing concern about the pollution (mulchy sewage times) being dumped into the Halifax Harbour.
The city clean up project began in 2007 with the creation of new treatment plants and culminated in last summer's declaration that the harbour was no longer hazardous made clear by Mayor Peter Kelly's famous summer dip.
Things were going swell until in the middle of the night on January 14th a power outage caused "A generator [to stop] working with the sluice door open seven to eight centimetres. With the pumps not working and the sluice door partly open, it took less than an hour for the plant to fill with waste."
This little story ends with "the facility flooded with nearly seven million litres of sewage. Officials still don’t know why" and the Halifax Harbour is once more contaminated.
This however is only part of the reason that Halifax is mulch capital of the world, the true beauty comes in comparison:
"Critics have said problems can be attributed to the city’s sewage system being underfunded, at $333 million, and such things as a modern plant being hooked up to antiquated sewer pipes.
In contrast, civic leaders in Victoria are considering sewage treatment options that could cost up to $2 billion. The three levels of government have agreed to split the cost. Victoria’s municipal officials hope to have their system working by 2016."
East Coast of Canada? 333 million. West Coast of Canada: 2 fucking billion.
But at least we have these.

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