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Solidarity Halifax Announces Finalists in 'Name Our Oval' Contest

Miles Howe — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:45:31 +0000

Names reflect activist, popular and Indigenous history of Nova Scotia

K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – Anti-capitalist group Solidarity Halifax announced Saturday the finalists in their “Name Our Oval” contest, in which residents of the Halifax Regional Municipality had been asked to send in suggestions on what to rename the highly popular skating oval currently known as the Emera Oval.

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Treasure Island

Miles Howe — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:50:59 +0000

Like the pirates and rum runners of old, Emera may be using the island of Grand Bahama as a staging ground for larger raids

FREEPORT (GRAND BAHAMA)—Just as Nova Scotians are now bearing witness to the multi-billion dollar Muskrat Falls deal, in which final costs for both power and construction remain vague and unknown, so too do residents of Grand Bahama suffer at the hands of Emera's plotting and guaranteed rates of return to shareholders.

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Lights Out

Miles Howe — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:44:04 +0000

Businesspeople left feeling powerless in Grand Bahama

Freeport, Grand Bahama – Over-reliance on the tourist trade, and the fickleness in tastes that that entails, is not necessarily the recipe for a balanced and stable economy.

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"You Don't Treat People Like Animals, Especially When You Come Into a Foreign Country"

Miles Howe — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:59:04 +0000

CEWU president fears that Emera will kill the union in Grand Bahama by November 2012

FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA – The Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union (CEWU), representing an ever-dwindling membership at Emera's Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC), is in the process of being systematically busted by Emera, the Nova Scotia-based company, says the union.

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Emera Busted in the Bahamas

Miles Howe — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:38:40 +0000

Audit suggests endemic mismanagement at all levels of Grand Bahama Power Company

A damning July 9 audit report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bahamas, on behalf of the Grand Bahamas Port Authority, has strongly reprimanded the Grand Bahama Power Company (an Emera subsidiary) for not being responsible to its 19,000-odd customer base.

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Talking to Emerans

Miles Howe — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:17:17 +0000

Pirates abounded in Halifax today, both inside and outside Emera AGM

K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - Mutiny was in the air today in Halifax, both inside and outside the Emera Annual General Meeting.

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May in Review

Natascia Lypny — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:17:45 +0000

May, Over Easy

Goodbye Graham

The retirement of Nova Scotia’s Finance Minister, Graham Steele, was unexpected — but welcome.

The pressures of working in the political world easily justify the personal reasons Steele offered for stepping back from the cabinet and government.

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Emera's Profiteers

bsichel — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:41:30 +0000

Reacting to the news that Nova Scotia Power's top executives got double-digit raises last year, at the same time that the private power monopoly has requested another power rate

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Neighbours From Hell

Miles Howe — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:55:27 +0000

Think you've got it bad? Try living next door to Nova Scotia Power's Trenton Generating Station

HILLSIDE, NS – Down Boyles Road, on a spit of land his family has inhabited for three generations, Peter Boyles, of the Trenton-Hillside Environmental Watch Association, stares pensively out his south-facing kitchen window.

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Island Hopping with Emera

Miles Howe — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:28:40 +0000

Barbados is Latest Caribbean Island to Feel the Emera Squeeze

On a small island north of Venezuela, 4,500 kilometres from Halifax, Barbados Light and Power (BLP) recently issued a news release. Energy use on the Caribbean island has hit a low not seen since 1974.

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Muskrat Falls Development Premature and Imprudent

Miles Howe — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:57:35 +0000

CD Howe Report Slams Emera Co-Sponsored Mega-Project

HALIFAX - On January 11 the CD Howe Institute, a leading Canadian business think-tank, released a policy paper entitled, ‘Newfoundland’s Electricity Options: Making the Right Choice Requires an Efficient Pricing Regime”.

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Nova Scotia: Electro-State

macdonaldtomw — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:16:10 +0000

Renewable energy expert Neal Livingston says Nova Scotia will export its renewable energy and keep the coal burning

Nova Scotia could soon follow in the footsteps of the Alberta tar sands energy boom. But instead of exporting upgraded bitumen, Nova Scotia – the province with the 4th largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions - would play a rather ironic role: that of renewable energy exporter.

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