News 1. Fuel leaks at Tufts Cove and Halifax Transit “Pressed about the fact it took [Nova Scotia Power (NSP)] 12 days to talk about the almost 20,000 litres spilled on its property, [Environment Minister Margaret] Miller said she wasn’t overly concerned,” reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: “It would have been better if they […]
The dog days of summer, but don’t name the dog
Morning File, Wednesday, August 15, 2018
News 1. Tufts Cove oil spill Yesterday, Nova Scotia Power (NSP) issued a news release about its cleanup efforts at the Tufts Cove oil spill. For the first time, the release defines the full extent of the spill, and as I predicted, it was much larger than originally reported. The company now says that in […]
Kersplash: there goes tidal generation
Morning File, Tuesday, August 14, 2018
News 1. Emera withdraws from Cape Sharp Tidal This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Emera is out of the tidal power business in the Bay of Fundy, at least for now. The parent company of Nova Scotia Power (and the North American energy conglomerate with $29 billion in assets) announced yesterday it was withdrawing […]
Another violent cannabis dispensary-related attack
Morning File, Monday, August 13, 2018
News 1. Health care Writes Stephen Kimber: “I want to assure you that I’ve heard you, and I’ve listened,” McNeil said of the health care crisis on election night. “We have a plan, and the opposition parties have a plan, and we can work together to make it better.” So much for working together. With […]
Harvard Street residents go to court over bikeway plan
Morning File, Friday, August 10, 2018
News 1. Class action lawsuit filed against Archdiocese Last week, Halifax lawyer John McKiggan and the Toronto law firm of Koskie Minsky announced they were filing a class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth on behalf of children they allege were sexually abused by priests from 1960 to the present. After the lawyers issued […]
Grafton Street through the Nova Centre is a crumbling mess
Grafton Street through the Nova Centre has only been open to the public since January, but already the Grafton Street roadbed is crumbling. You’ll recall that the city sold a one-block stretch of Grafton Street between Prince and Sackville Streets to Nova Centre developer Joe Ramia for $1.9 million on the condition that the city maintain […]
The Tufts Cove cleanup could take as long as three months
Morning File, Thursday, August 9, 2018
News 1. Tufts Cove cleanup “MFR Oil Response is one of the companies contracted by Nova Scotia Power to do the cleanup work [at the site of the Tufts Cove oil spill],” reports Anjuli Patil for the CBC: Mark Ring, the company’s president, said he’s looking to hire more people to do manual labour at the […]
Halifax cops raided the Church of Cannabis yesterday
Morning File, Wednesday, August 8, 2018
1. FOIPOP “An assessment of the software that was used to operate the province’s troubled freedom of information [FOIPOP] website notes high risks,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: The report looks at AMANDA 7, which was used to operate the website where people could file freedom of information requests online, receive their documents and […]
893 city employees make more than $100,000 annually and yet janitors cleaning city buildings are paid poverty wages
Morning File, Tuesday, August 7, 2018
News 1. Oil spill Friday morning, I criticized Nova Scotia Power (NSP) for its press release related to the oil spill from the Tufts Cove Generating Plant. The press release called it a “limited” spill; I wrote: “Limited” is PR spin. Every oil spill is “limited” in some sense — the Deepwater Horizon spill that destroyed […]
Halifax parents allege that coaches of a U16 football team that went to Texas were “out drinking every night” and there was “no supervision” of the children
Morning File, Friday, August 3, 2018
News 1. Oil leak From a Nova Scotia Power press release: Late this afternoon (THURSDAY), Nova Scotia Power’s Tufts Cove Generating Station had a limited oil leak from an exterior pipe at Tufts Cove that runs from onsite storage tanks along the harbour-side of the facility into the plant. Plant staff immediately activated environmental response protocols […]
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