The municipality’s Design Review Committee has approved Killam’s plans for the corner of Hollis and Bishop streets more than two years after it approved a slightly larger proposal for the same site. Killam applied through WSP Canada to build the seven-storey, 13-unit residential building with some commercial space on the site in front of its...
Killam still profiting during pandemic
Morning File, Friday, August 7, 2020
News 1. McNeil stepping down Stephen McNeil is stepping down as premier. Zane Woodford reports on the surprise announcement, which McNeil made Thursday during a post-cabinet news conference. Says McNeil: Seventeen years is a long time, and it’s long enough. Today I’m announcing I will be stepping down and leaving public office. I have informed […]
The new gas economy: the offshore, pipelines, and Alton Gas
Most of the natural gas used in Nova Scotia came from the Sable Island gas field. But now, as the offshore gas industry collapses, Heritage Gas is looking to increase sales and keep prices low by importing gas from the U.S. and western Canada to the Alton Gas storage project.
No one who keeps an eye on the Nova Scotia energy scene was surprised to learn that EnCana plans to halt production at its ill-starred Deep Panuke offshore gas development in two to three years. Not only was the project 10 years late and a billion dollars over budget, water problems have plagued it, reducing...