Post reporter moving on to tar ponds agency
SYDNEY - After more than a decade of
reporting on the cleanup of the tar
ponds, a Cape Breton Post reporter
has decided to join the Sydney Tar
Ponds Agency as a communications
officer.
Tanya Collier MacDonald, 35, of
Howie Centre, is expected to officially
assume her new job June 25.
"I was looking for a career change
and this opportunity was the most
exciting and challenging," said Mac-
Donald, who was the Post’s lead
reporter on the tar ponds file.
The $400-million project is expected
to take seven years and clean up the
mess left behind after nearly a century
of steelmaking. The project will
employ solidification and stabilization
technologies.
"I think one of the more exciting
parts of the job will be balancing the
needs of the federal and provincial
governments while engaging the community
in the project. Very few jobs
offer such a challenge," said Collier
MacDonald, a mother of two sons.
She said one of her goals is to provide
the public easier access to information
on how the project is progressing
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