Recent news that Calgary-based Pieridae Energy’s has found a new engineering firm for its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Goldboro, and worked out an agreement with a Calgary firm and the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs to build and operate a huge work camp at the site, has prompted headlines that suggest […]
Unexplained delay pushes completion of the first ship in the multi-billion dollar Halifax Shipyard contract back at least six months
The slogan said, “Ships Start Here,” but it didn’t address the “when.” The first vessel built under the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy program at the Halifax Shipyard will be delivered to the Canadian Navy about six to nine months later than expected — sometime next summer. In response to a question from the Halifax Examiner,...
Ships Start Here. But where are the jobs?
Irving says the ship contract has an huge economic impact on Nova Scotia. But an honest review of the numbers shows the reality is more nuanced.
Apparently, the Halifax Shipyard isn’t feeling the love and needs to buy some. Watch your mail for a glossy, 16-page magazine brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding later this month. Every homeowner in the Halifax Regional Municipality is supposed to get one, paid for by Irving. Entitled “Irving Halifax Shipyard: Canada’s Future Naval Fleet,” the...