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Tidal recall: the province says it will pay the estimated $5 million to remove the tidal turbine abandoned on the floor of the Minas Basin, but doesn’t say when

April 9, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Energy and Mines Minister Derek Mombourquette announced last week the province intends to “eventually retrieve” the abandoned 1,000-tonne, five-storey turbine abandoned at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy near Parrsboro. “Eventually” is the key word in that sentence since there is no timeline and no obvious financial means to pay a salvage bill estimated...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cape Sharp Tidal, DP Energy, Emera, FORCE, Jason Hayman, Minas Tidal Limited Partnership, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Naval Energies, OpenHydro, Schottel Hydro, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) Canada, tidal turbine

Announcing the Examiner subscriber party, with special guest Linden MacIntyre

Morning File, Friday, November 9, 2018

November 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Announcing the Examiner subscriber party, with special guest speaker Linden MacIntyre We’re in the midst of the Halifax Examiner’s subscription drive. We do this every November, and towards the end of the month we have a party to thank our subscribers. This year’s party will be on Sunday, November 25, from 4–7pm, at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Atlantis Operations Canada Limited, Atlantis Resources Inc, Black Rock Tidal Power, Canadian International Marine Energy, Cape Sharp Tidal, cargo plane crash Halifax airport, DP Energy, Dyno Nobel Canada Inc., Emera, Examiner party 2018, Fundy Ocean Research Centre (FORCE), Gateway Materials, Jordan Carlson, Judge Michael Sherar, Justice Michael Wood, Linden MacIntyre, Minas Tidal Limited Partnership, Noble Regina Allen incident bulletin, OpenHydro bankruptcy, pedestrian struck Pleasant Street, Schottel Hydro, Shelley L. MacDougall, Stephen Archibald and Remembrance Day, Steve Bruce, Tocardo Tidal Power, Zora Computing Inc.

Tidal power isn’t dead yet

Three companies are still committed to developing the industry, but after the OpenHydro collapse, obtaining the hundreds of millions of dollars in needed investment may be an upstream battle.

September 4, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Tomorrow (Wednesday), an Irish High Court will begin to sort out the ownership of an Irish company whose bankruptcy forced it to abandon its gigantic principal asset — a doughnut-shaped, five-storey high, 1,000-tonne turbine — an ocean away at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy. The third version of the company’s device, designed to...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cape Sharp Tidal, DP Energy, Fundy Ocean Research Centre (FORCE), Jason Hayman, John Kerr, John Woods, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Sustainable Marine Energy

Is tidal power dead in the water?

The collapse of OpenHydro comes after $36.2 million in public money has been put into tidal development in Nova Scotia.

August 7, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

The collapse late last month of the French-owned, Irish-based company that has installed tidal turbines three times in the Bay of Fundy continues to reverberate. It is felt most acutely by suppliers and sub-contractors in Nova Scotia, the Orkney Islands, and wherever in the world OpenHydro did business. An unanswered question is whether the collapse...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Aecon Industries, BBC Chartering, Bill Lahey, Black Rock Tidal Power, Cape Sharp, Cape Sharp Tidal, Christian Richard, DP Energy, Electric Power Research Institute, Emera Inc., Energy Minister Derek Monbourquette, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Grant Thornton, Marine Current Technologies, Maritime Tidal Energy Corp, Melissa Oldreive, Minas Basin Pulp and Paper, Minas Energy, Minas Tidal, Naval Energies, OpenHydro, Ron Scott, Schottel Hydro, Stacey Pineau, tidal power

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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