Government can’t fill this bottomless pit
Don Cayo on the state of the coal industry in Nova Scotia in 1996. He says "There is no way to make everyone happy. But there is a way to get better bang for the very big bucks already committed to compensate for closing the mines. If the federal government was smart -- and I see too little evidence that it is -- it would learn a lesson from the disastrous TAGS program it implemented and then extended after the collapse of East Coast groundfish stocks in 1991."