News 1. NSP asks for rate increase Yesterday, Nova Scotia Power (NSP) was at the Utility and Review Board asking for a rate increase, which means customers will pay 1.5 per cent more each year for the next three years. NSP says it’s asking for the rate increase because of rising fuel costs. Jennifer Henderson […]
Nova Scotia’s looming oil-drilling disaster
Canadian regulators have failed to reduce the likelihood of a Deepwater Horizon-like blowout at BP's deep-sea well on the Scotian Slope, and the company plans to respond to a blowout with an oil dispersant that could compound the catastrophe.
When BP named its exploratory well in the Mississippi Canyon the Macondo Prospect after the doomed fictional town of Macondo from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, that alone should have raised alarm bells. The story of seven generations of the Buendía family are set in the Colombian town, which is beset by […]
Morning File: look at all those white people near the new Y
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
News 1. Health Authority craps on healthy transportation “The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) has taken a surprise position on the expansion and improvement of the South Park street bike lane: they’re against it,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: At least they are against the disruption to available on-street parking that it might cause. […]