N.S. to hire environment prosecutor to ‘hold people and companies accountable’
HALIFAX — Environmental offences will soon be the specific focus of a new prosecutor to be hired by the Nova Scotia government.
A dedicated prosecutor will help the government “better hold people and companies accountable when they break the law,” Environment Minister Iain Rankin said in a statement Wednesday.
The prosecutor would handle cases related to the Environment Act, food safety, public health, meat inspection, fisheries and aquaculture, animal welfare, natural resources and the fur industry.
“We have about 40 different pieces of legislation that we are responsible for, and of course all of the regulations that are underneath all of that legislation,” deputy environment minister Frances Martin told the legislature’s public accounts committee Wednesday.