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The poise and dignity and badassedness of women’s righteous anger

Morning File, Monday, June 27, 2022

June 27, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Atlantic Gold “St Barbara Ltd, the Australian mining company that owns Atlantic Gold and Atlantic Mining NS, which operates the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River, is in trouble,” reports Joan Baxter: This week, St Barbara’s share prices crashed 14% “to a multi-year low,” after the company released a statement that […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: affordable housing, Claudia Chender, Emera, Jagmeet Singh, Lily Allen, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Nova Scotia Power (NSP) salaries, NS NDP, Olivia Rodrigo, Peter Gregg, tax windfall, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

Despite receiving Muskrat Falls power, Nova Scotia is still burning biomass for electricity

June 24, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson

The Ecology Action Centre is urging the provincial government to rescind or revoke a directive to Nova Scotia Power to maximize the burning of biomass to generate electricity.  That instruction was first given by the McNeil government in May 2020 after ongoing delays in receiving renewable energy from Labrador. “In January and again in March,...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Allan Shaw, Bates White, biomass, Brooklyn Power, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), electricity generation, Emera, Emma Cochrane, GHG emissions, Joe Marshall, Justice Constance Glube, Maritime Link, Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative, Muskrat Falls, Nova Scotia Block and Supplemental Energy, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Port Hawkesbury Paper, Raymond Plourde, Tory Rushton, Wagner and Great Northern Timber

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)

Emera has record profits, but wants more from ratepayers to move off coal

May 26, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Annual General Meeting of Emera Inc. — a company that grew out of  Nova Scotia Power and has become a multinational business with $34 billion in assets and 7,000 employees — was a tame, well-scripted affair.  There wasn’t a single question from shareholders about a controversial proposal to raise power rates by 10% in […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Atlantic Loop, coal, electricity, Emera, Maritime Link, Muskrat Falls, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Peter Gregg, Scott Balfour

Public importance of private woodlots

Morning File, Wednesday, May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

News 1. Public importance of private woodlots This item was written by Ethan Lycan-Lang. There’s been a lot of discussion about how we manage our forests in this province; forests that are both disappearing and deteriorating in health. Ask most biologists, environmentalists, and non-industry foresters and they’ll tell you “discussion” is all there’s been when […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Andy Kekacs, bike lane, Claudia Chender, CoVaRR-Net, COVID-19, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Ecology Action Centre, Emera, Ethan Lycan-Lang, forestry, Globe and Mail, Karen Gatien, Karla Jessen Williamson, Lahey report, Moira MacDonald, Northern Pulp, Not Just Bikes, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners, Patricia Amero, private woodlots, Raymond Plourde, residential schools, Silvicultural Guide for the Ecological Matrix, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Toronto Islands, urban design, vaccine hesitancy, Western Woodlot Services Cooperative, William Lahey, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

John Risley jumps on the “green” hydrogen subsidy bandwagon

Morning File, Tuesday, May 24, 2022

May 24, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Mass Casualty Commission “The clock is ticking,” writes Stephen Kimber. “There are just 116 weekdays between now and the day that the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission is required — by the orders in council that created it — to report back to the rest of us… Neither the federal nor provincial government […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Atlantic Loop, Bodidata, Bruce Terry, CBC, clean hydrogen, Crystal Capital Markets, Ecology Action Centre, Emera, emergency alert, Energy and Technology Minister Andrew Parsons, Everbridge App, Everwind, hfxAlert, hydroelectricity, Industry, Jennifer Henderson, John Risley, Larry Uteck Developments, Mass Casualty Commission, Mori Salehi, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Premier Blaine Higgs, RCMP, Scott Balfour, Stephen Kimber, Tanya Shaw, Tara Miller, Tim Bousquet, Tory Rushton, Trent Vichie, Yarmouth, Yarmouth ferry

Northern Pulp says it is ‘insolvent’ and can’t pay its pension obligations, but it’s got plenty of cash to bankroll legal assaults on Nova Scotia’s government and laws

April 20, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

At the end of this month, Northern Pulp and six of its affiliates will be back in the British Columbia Supreme Court, and odds are they will ask for and get yet another extension ⁠— the seventh to date ⁠— of the creditor relief they’ve been afforded under the federal Companies Creditor Arrangement Act. Northern […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), BC Supreme Court, Biodiversity Act, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, boycott, British Columbia Supreme Court, Bruce Chapman, China, Companies Creditor Arrangement Act (CCAA), court monitor, creditor protection, creditor relief, Dartmouth East, default, Emera, environmental assessment, Ernst & Young, Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC), France, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, Greenpeace, Hervey Investment B.V., Hong Kong, insolvent, John Hamm, judicial review, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, lawsuit, Mattell, Maurice Chiasson, mediation, Netherlands, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Nova Scotia government, Nova Scotia Law Amendments Committee, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Superintendent of Pensions, nova scotia supreme court, NS Supreme Court, Pacific Harbour Resources Limited, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence B.V., Paper Excellence Canada Holdings, Paper Excellence Corporation, Pictou, PR campaign, Public Affairs Atlantic, public relations, pulp mill, Robert Grant, Rodney MacDonald, Saint Gaudens, Sasha Irving, Shanghai, Sinar Mas Group, Statistics Canada’s Inter-corporate Ownership, Tarascon, tax haven, Terms of Reference, Thomas Cromwell, Tim Houston, Timothy Halman, Widjaja family

Emera president Scott Balfour received $8.28 million in compensation in 2021

March 17, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 9 Comments

Emera Inc. president and CEO Scott Balfour took home a whopping $8.28 million dollars in total compensation in 2021, including salary and stock options.  Enough to make you gag in your green beer, the figures for Emera’s top five executives were reported on St.Patrick’s Day in the company’s Management Circular. Here a short summary of […]

Filed Under: Economy, Featured, News Tagged With: Emera, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Scott Balfour

10,000 steps and other persistent bullshit

Morning File, Tuesday, February 15, 2022

February 15, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Seven more Nova Scotians have died of COVID-19 Yesterday, Nova Scotia reported seven COVID-19 deaths over three days. More than a third of Nova Scotia’s COVID deaths have occurred since December 3. Welcome to the next phase of our re-opening plan. In his roundup, Tim Bousquet writes: The 68 people now hospitalized because […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File Tagged With: Afghanistan, Albert Mehrabian, Black in the Maritimes, British Medical Journal, Cape Breton Spectator, Charlie Warzel, Community Services Minister Karla MacFarlane, COVID-19, Disability Rights Coalition, Emera, Fidel Franco, Galaxy Brain, health care, Jennifer Henderson, Mary Campbell, Matthew Byard, Matthieu Aikins, Milena Khazanavicius, New York Times, Nova Scotia Power, Philip Moscovitch, refugees, scams, ScripTalk, Supreme Court of Canada, Suzanne Rent, Tim Bousquet, Tim Houston, Vicky Levack, water, Wordle

Emera sees record profits

February 14, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The year 2021 delivered record profits for shareholders of Emera Inc, the parent company of Nova Scotia Power.  Earnings per share were up 11% from $2.68 in 2020 to $2.81 in 2021. Emera earned $723 million in profit; Nova Scotia Power made $241 million profit, an increase of $20 million from 2020. Higher natural gas […]

Filed Under: Economy, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Emera, Nova Scotia Power (NSP)

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PRICED OUT

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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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!

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