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On Wednesday, Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton and clean energy director David Miller laid out their plan to get Nova Scotia off coal by 2030.“We’re focused on the lowest capital cost investments to achieve our 2030 targets and still deliver those massive GHG reductions that are necessary.”
“Is sound? It’s hard to tell,” said Larry Hughes, a Dalhousie University professor and observer of this province’s electrical sector.But it is a step further from the Hail-Mary plan to tie our grid to Quebec’s that was being pitched by the federal government.The Hydro Quebec logo is lit up in the Ca Va Aller rainbow as the city deals with the Coronavirus pandemic in Montreal on Friday May 8, 2020.
Days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Nova Scotia to give a speech at St. Francis Xavier University this spring, federal staffers leaked to the Canadian Press that Nova Scotia was refusing a $4.5-billion offer from the feds to help pay for the Loop. Premier Tim Houston was quick to clarify the feds were offering a loan, not a grant, to be repaid with interest by ratepayers over 50 years on top of whatever Quebec charged for hydro power.
The province is pitching a new transmission line capable of allowing 500 megawatts of power to go back or forth between the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick grids. This $1.4-billion line would run from Onslow to Salisbury, outside Moncton.
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