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 | | The proposed clean up of Halifax Harbour can produce net benefits worth up to $1.4 billion over 60 years, according to a new GPI Atlantic study that considers the impacts of a cleaner harbour on tourism, property values, shellfish harvesting, labour income, taxes, environmental quality, marine ecosystem services and other factors. |
 | | The study projects a 2% to 3% annual increase in tourism revenues, worth $9 to $14 million a year, as sewage discharge litter on harbour shorelines, as well as odours and floating debris diminish. |
 | | In contrast to North Americans who are working longer hours, the Dutch, Danes, Norwegians, French, Italians and other Europeans have actively reduced work hours both in order to spread the work more evenly and thus to reduce unemployment and underemployment as well as overwork, and also to improve work-family balance. |
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