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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

Poo in the water, and other calamities

Morning File, Friday, August 24, 2018

August 24, 2018 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

Good morning, folks. Erica Butler here at the Morningfile keyboard today. News 1. Burnside jail “The prisoner protest at the Burnside jail is in part sparked by the move to the direct supervision model,” reports El Jones: Both staff and prisoners say that the change to new day rooms has been disorganized, that there is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Cooper, beach closures, Brett Bundale, Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, Cape Sharp Tidal, cow patty bingo, Energy Minister Derek Mombourqeuette, Erica Butler, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Garron Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Graeme Benjamin, gun lobby, Hebron Hospitality Group Inc, Jagpreet Kit Singh, Jeff Waugh, Justice Joshua Arnold, Louis Reznick, monument to the Maroons, Naval Energies, Neeta Kumar-Britten, OpenHydro, Project Sunshine new report, Sea King helicopters, Smiling Goat written decision, Starfish Properties, Taryn Grant, tidal turbine, Tom Ayers

Kersplash: there goes tidal generation

Morning File, Tuesday, August 14, 2018

August 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 9 Comments

News 1. Emera withdraws from Cape Sharp Tidal This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Emera is out of the tidal power business in the Bay of Fundy, at least for now. The parent company of Nova Scotia Power (and the North American energy conglomerate with $29 billion in assets) announced yesterday it was withdrawing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cassie Williams, Christian Richard, Emera, Fredericton shooting, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Grant Thornton, GreenUnivers, Kevin Bissett, Laurent Schneider-Maunoury, Michael Tutton, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Morgan Lowrie, Naval Energies, Nicole Thompson, Oceans Supercluster, Open Hydro, Patricia Laurent, Rachel Boomer, Renewables Now, reporting ranks in New Brunswick, Samantha Bayard, Stacey Pineau, Steve Hennigar, Tufts Cove oil spill, Vincent Groizeleau

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

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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