5pm Hour – hot air over wind farms

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Posted May 23, 2012 03:17:26 PM.

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RCMP Sgt Keith MacKinnon joins us to talk about bath salts, a drug that’s now made it’s way to Pictou County where police are dealing with several seizures. Kim Stacey with Emma’s Eatery checks in with her healthy plate. Jim Davis’ son was killed in Afghanistan, he weighs in on the news that Canada will pull it’s boots from the ground in the country. Barry Zwicker with Scotian Windfarms joins us to talk about a wind farm debate in the valley.

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