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Nova Scotia Power rate increase: just more corporate obfuscation, jiggery-pokery and sleight of hand

Nova Scotia Power doesn't want you to know how much it pays its executives, or why. There are lots of things the utility doesn't want you to know. But it still wants more of your money.

June 6, 2022 By Stephen Kimber

You might imagine that somewhere in its controversial, hydro-dam-blocking 3,100-page application for an electricity rate increase, Nova Scotia Power would have found even a few short paragraphs to explain how it had multiplied, divided, compared and calibrated to calculate — and justify — the compensation for its corporate executives. You would imagine wrong. In fact,...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Blake Williams, confidentiality, Emera, executive compensation, Grant Thornton, Mercer Consulting, Nancy Rubin, Nova Scotia Power (NSP) salaries, Peter Gregg, rate increase, Utilities and Review Board (UARB)

Nova Scotia Power wants 1.5% rate increases for each of the next three years

October 16, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia Power (NSP) was before the Utility and Review Board yesterday asking for a rate increase that will see residential customers pay 1.5% more on their power bill in each of the next three years. Businesses and large industrial users could see their bills go up between 2 and 4% each year. NSP blames...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Chelsea Sawatzky, David Hoffman, David Landrigan, David Rodenhiser, Emera, Fuel Adjustment Mechanism (FAM), Lower Power Rates Alliance of Nova Scotia, Nancy Rubin, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Peter Gurnham, Roland Deveau, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

Regulator gets final submissions on Nova Scotia Power’s “smart meter” plan

Consumer advocates say the utility hasn’t presented enough solid evidence to prove that installing digital meters to measure electricity usage won’t cost ratepayers more than it should.  

March 25, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Before the Utility and Review Board (UARB) approves Nova Scotia Power’s (NSP) plan to install “smart” meters across the province, both the Consumer Advocate and the Small Business Advocate feel the utility needs to smarten up its proposal. They say NSP hasn’t presented enough solid evidence to prove that installing digital meters to measure electricity...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Affordable Energy Coalition, Bill Mahody, Brian Gifford, Consumer Advocate, Ecology Action Centre, Efficiency One, Emera, Jennifer Henderson, Melissa Macadam, Nelson Blackburn, New Brunswick Power, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Paul Chernick, Peter Ritchie, Small Business Advocate, smart meters, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

Judge rejects motion against Lafarge’s tire-burning plan

January 20, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Denise Boudreau has rejected a motion from a citizens group opposed to burning tires for fuel at the Lafarge cement plant in Brookfield. The motion was that new evidence from a toxicology expert be admitted as part of a judicial review this March of Environment Minister Iain Rankin’s decision to...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Citizens Against Burning of Tires group (CABOT), Douglas Hallett, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Lafarge cement plant, Lenore Zann, Lydia Sorflaten, Supreme Court Justice Denise Boudreau

Brookfield residents ask court to consider new tire-burning evidence

December 15, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

“I say to the Dept of Environment: Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?” Lydia Sorflaten was a talking about an affidavit by an internationally-known toxicologist expert who accuses the province of applying the wrong scientific data to approve a one-year pilot project to burn tires at the Lafarge cement...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Citizens Against the Burning of Tires (CABOT), Douglas Hallett, Ecology Action Centre, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Fred Blois, Jennifer Henderson, John Keith, Justice Denise Boudreau, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Lydia Sorflaten, Sean Foreman

Toxicologist Douglas Hallett raises concerns about Lafarge tire-burning

November 20, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

A citizens’ group opposed to the burning of tires for fuel at the Lafarge cement plant in Brookfield is asking a court to consider a report from a toxicology expert as part of its judicial review of the Nova Scotia Environment Minister’s decision to approve a one-year pilot project. Douglas J. Hallett (M.Sc and Ph.D...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Douglas Hallett, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Gary Burrill, Jennifer Henderson, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Lydia Sorflaten

Brookfield residents go to court to stop tire burning at Larfarge

September 5, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

A handful of Colchester County residents will get their day in court next year to try and halt a one-year pilot project that would burn tires for fuel at the Lafarge Canada cement plant in Brookfield, 12 kilometres south of Truro, near Shortts Lake. Yesterday, in a process to set court dates, Lafarge lawyer John...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Allan Sorflaten, Bill Mahody, C&D Recycling, Dan Chassie, Environment Minister Rankin, Fred Blois, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Harpell, John Keith, Judge Patrick Duncan, Kendall McCulloch, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Lydia Sorflaten, Sean Foreman, Supreme Court Justice Josh Arnold

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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