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| Sackville stink nets $60k a year |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 15-May-2013 |
| The old landfill in Sackville is not in use, but Halifax’s solid waste manager says the site is contributing about $60,000 a year to the city’s coffers.
The landfill is remembered for its nauseating smell. “Residents about two and a half kilometres away would be able to smell it on a windy day.”
However the city now has a contact with a company that captures the site’s methane, and turns it ... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| More wind projects for NS |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca |
| Date: 14-May-2013 |
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Four more community wind energy projects were registered for environmental assessment in Nova Scotia this week.
The proposed projects include: Millbrook Community Wind, Truro Heights Community Wind, Whynotts Community Wind, and Chebucto Pockwock Community Wind.
The projects are being developed under the provincial community feed-in tariff (COMFIT) program.
The Minister of Environment ... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| PEI venture to test energy storage |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 13-May-2013 |
| Although the wind blows at all hours of the day and night, there is generally much less demand for the electricity created at nighttime.
Means of storing that energy for use during the peak daytime hours are being explored and researched, and a new venture on PEI is setting up to begin tests on a system it has just purchased.
The Wind Energy Institute of Canada in western P.E.I. has purcha... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Lepreau making power again... again |
| Source: The Guardian |
| Date: 01-May-2013 |
| Point Lepreau nuclear power-generating station, Atlantic Canada’s only nuclear power plant, is making power again - it had been forced offline because of startup problems.
The power station in New Brunswick stopped sending electricity to the province’s power grid almost three weeks ago, so it could adjust the chemistry of the water in boilers.
The reactor is currently running at 35 percent c... (read more on The Guardian) |
| CB biomass to come online |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 30-Apr-2013 |
| Construction is now complete on the $183-million biomass-fueled power-generating facility in Point Tupper, and the plant is expected to be fully operational in the summer once additional testing is done.
The privately owned utility is expected to buy roughly 500,000 tonnes of biomass fuel for the 60-megawatt plant, and create more than 200 direct and indirect jobs.
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Biomass p... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| Sable would be only National Park to be drilled |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca |
| Date: 26-Apr-2013 |
| As part of legislation making Sable Island a National Park, ExxonMobil would retain horizontal drilling and seismic exploration rights on the spot.
The energy giant apparently demanded the right to drill under Sable Island, in exchange for giving up its right to drill on top of it.
Taking away those rights would have scuttled the deal to change the island’s designation, said provincial Comm... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| NSP customers to pay $93-million for wind power |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca |
| Date: 26-Apr-2013 |
| The URB has decided that NS Power's ratepayers are on the hook to fund NSP's $93-million share of the cost of building a controversial wind farm in Lunenburg County.
The $200-million "South Canoe" wind farm, which will be the province’s largest, is slated to be operational by Jan. 1, 2015.
The project would have 34 turbines and be built on a 3,044-hectare property betwee... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| "Solar City" project launches |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 24-Apr-2013 |
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Local solar panel manufacturers Thermo Dynamics expects to crank out more than $4 million worth of hardware and double its workforce during the pilot project
Peter Allen, the man behind Thermo Dynamics, was at the official launch and ribbon cutting ceremony for the first home in HRM to install the company's "Solar City package".
He outlined the program’s potential impact ... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
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| Shale gas exploration to continue in NB |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 23-Apr-2013 |
| SWN Resources was forced to abandon its seismic testing plans last summer because of delays in obtaining the necessary permits, but the company says it will be operating again in New Brunswick this summer.
SWN will be testing to see if they have a viable chance of developing a shale gas industry in the province.
Nicki Atkinson, the exploration manager, said the company still feels it will ... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Muskrat Falls reports conflicting |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 22-Apr-2013 |
| Reports that contradict each other were tabled in the Nova Scotia legislature last week, which both the NDP government and the Opposition Liberals said supported their differing positions on the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project.
The NDP said new information submitted by a consultant shows that the cost of building a subsea link between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland would be cheaper than two a... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| Sable wind turbines, never completed, may be scrapped |
| Source: dailybusinessbuzz.ca |
| Date: 18-Apr-2013 |
| 13 years after being started, the Sable wind project still has not provided a single watt of energy and may be scrapped instead of being completed. Technology has changed significantly since the project was begun.
Julie Tompa, project manager for the Sable Island National Park Reserve, said it's possible the turbines could be scrapped, depending on the results of a new project assessment ... (read more on dailybusinessbuzz.ca) |
| Wind farm approval challenged |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca |
| Date: 11-Apr-2013 |
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The Friends of River Road, a group from Terence Bay, Nova Scotia, wants the energy minister to withdraw his approval of a Halifax County wind farm - they say the project doesn’t have enough local support.
The grou's spokeswoman, Jacquelyn Pettipas, says they want Charlie Parker to revoke the project’s approval because community-based wind farms are supposed to have local support.
“Th... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| Point Lepreau still producing little power |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 09-Apr-2013 |
| Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is behind projections by about $30 million in lost electricity production since it restarted.
The station has operated at an average of just 68 percent capacity since it restarted in November, well below the 93 percent the utility projected.
Point Lepreau only put 173,000 megawatt hours of electricity onto the province's electrical grid in March... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Deep Panuke still not pulling its weight: NSP eyes US gas |
| Source: CBC.ca |
| Date: 08-Apr-2013 |
| NS Power is looking into the economics of bringing in natural gas from the United States.
Deep Panuke, Nova Scotia's newest offshore platform, is more than two years behind production schedule and is hundreds of millions of dollars over the original forecast.
The platform was set back further when a fire broke out last year.
Delays at Deep Panuke is being at least partially blamed ... (read more on CBC.ca) |
| Mink manure going to fuel |
| Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca |
| Date: 05-Apr-2013 |
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| A 600-kilowatt biomass plant powered with biofuel made from mink waste and other organic waste has been approved for Weaver Settlement, in Digby County, NS.
Terry Thibodeau, the municipality’s renewable energy and climate-change project co-ordinator, said the project is believed to be the first of its kind.
“We see it as being beneficial to the mink industry, to help them comply with some of... (read more on TheChronicleHerald.ca) |
| Harnessing the power of rust |
| Source: TheGlobeAndMail.com |
| Date: 29-Mar-2013 |
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| Calgary researchers are touting "rust power" as a renewable energy source.
How does it work?
The team has developed a type of cheap chemical catalyst – a material that can speed up the breakdown of water to produce hydrogen gas - hydrogen is stored energy that can be converted back to electricity.
If it proves to be viable on a commercial scale, the new catalyst would offer a w... (read more on TheGlobeAndMail.com) |
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