http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/7263/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/treasure-island/12277 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Like the pirates and rum runners of old, Emera may be using the island of Grand Bahama as a staging ground for larger raids </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_5670.jpg" alt="" title="Troy Garvey, Jonathan Glinton and Etienne Farquharson stand in front of the old Grand Bahama Power Station. Critics say the old plant could have been retrofitted for a fraction of the $80 million Emera recently spent on building a new power station, where allegations of union busting are rampant (Miles Howe photo)." width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>FREEPORT (GRAND BAHAMA)&mdash;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&#39;s plotting and guaranteed rates of return to shareholders.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/treasure-island/12277" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/treasure-island/12277#comments Miles Howe Solidarité Emera Grand Bahama Power Company Muskrat Falls Nova Scotia Power West Sunrise Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:50:59 +0000 Miles Howe 12277 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca