Rum Running will celebrate its world broadcast premiere on CBC Television’s Land & Sea on Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 12 Noon. Following the broadcast, the documentary can be watched on the CBC TV website at: www.cbc.ca/landandsea.
EVENTS: Great Stuff Happening in Charlotte County
Come On Out Folks!!
Sunday February 26th
Tickets at Cockburn’s and Sunbury Shores
and then………
Friday February 24th and Saturday February 25th
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Executive Director
Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre
139 Water Street
St. Andrews, NB E5B 1A7
506-529-3386
www.sunburyshores.org | director@sunburyshores.org
Executive Director
Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre
139 Water Street
St. Andrews, NB E5B 1A7
506-529-3386
www.sunburyshores.org | director@sunburyshores.org
LNG: Save Passamaquoddy Bay USA claims Calais LNG continues to “Yank FERC’s chain” in petition to dismiss application.
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Save Passamaquoddy Bay
A 3-Nation Alliance (US • Passamaquoddy • Canada)
PO Box 222 • Eastport, ME 04631 •
(207)853-2922
info@SavePassamaquoddyBay.org
www.SavePassamaquoddyBay.org
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street, NE Room 1A
Washington, DC 20426
eFiled on 2012 February 17
Re: Calais LNG, Docket Nos. CP10-31-000 and CP10-32-000
Dear Ms. Bose,
On 2012 February 15 Calais LNG filed to the docket claiming to be in negotiations for financing, and that completion of those negotiations — estimated to be completed by 2012 August — is required to re-establish property rights for the site necessary to theproject.
Calais LNG has been without financial capacity for 19 months (since 2010 July) and without interest in the required property for 17 months (since 2010 September) — and according to Calais LNGʼs latest filing, will continue without either one for at least another six months. Even if Calais LNGʼs projection were to prove true, and if FERCwere to allow Calais LNG to remain in permitting, then Calais LNG would have continuously been without financial capacity for 25 months, and without TRI for 23 months. All the while, Calais LNG would have remained ineligible for permitting.
Calais LNG continues to “yank FERCʼs chain” in lieu of permitting compliance. Based on past performance, Calais LNGʼs latest “projection” for compliance should be disregarded as incredulous.
Calais LNGʼs history of noncompliance with state and federal permitting requirements and deadlines is manifested in endless, unfulfilled promises. Simply refer to Calais LNGʼs permitting history: Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Gelber, Bay of Fundy, Calais, Calais LNG, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, LNG
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TIDAL ENERGY: NS Power gives up berth at tidal energy test site in the Bay of Fundy
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February 17, 2012 – 8:20pm BY BRETT BUNDALE BUSINESS REPORTER
Nova Scotia Power has given up its underwater spot at a tidal energy test site in the Bay of Fundy.
A spokeswoman for parent company Emera said Friday the utility gave up its berth in the Minas Passage area west of Parrsboro.
“Nova Scotia Power has given up the berth as we figure out our next step,” Sasha Irving said in an interview, noting that the decision to release the berth holder agreement was reached at the end of last year.
“We’ve already gone in the water and come back out. We’re still looking at the data from that and figuring out what our next steps might be.”
The utility had one of four berths at a tidal turbine demonstration facility run by the not-for-profit corporation Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy.
“Because Nova Scotia Power got in the water first in the Bay and then recovered the turbine, we are at a different point in time with our research and development of than perhaps some others are,” Irving said.
She added that the utility remains committed to the research site, pointing to a 138 kilovolt overhead transmission line Nova Scotia Power is building to connect the facility’s substation to the existing Parrsboro substation.
But the decision raises questions about where the utility would test a bigger turbine Irish company OpenHydro has developed.
Nova Scotia Power’s first test turbine, a $10-million device from OpenHydro, was only in the water for a few weeks in 2009 because its blades snapped.
Chris Huskilson, chief executive officer of Emera, said last month the utility may have a tidal turbine back in the water this year but it’s more likely to be early 2013.
He said Nova Scotia Power is back at the drawing board exploring various technologies for the Bay of Fundy.
OpenHydro has developed a 16-metre turbine, which may be more suitable for the test site than the 10-metre device deployed two years ago, Huskilson said.
However, where the utility would test the bigger turbine is now up in the air.
Besides testing a larger turbine, Nova Scotia Power is also interested in trying out an open-prop design — similar to a windmill — as well as an enclosed fan, he said.
OpenHydro’s technology uses an enclosed fan.
“From both an Emera and Nova Scotia Power perspective we remain very committed to tidal,” Irving noted. “We’re just analyzing what our next steps may be…but we are absolutely committed to tidal in the province of Nova Scotia.”
French company Alstom and partner Clean Current of Vancouver plan to put their test turbine in the water by the middle of this year.
Minas Basin Pulp and Power of Hantsport and partner Marine Current Turbines of Bristol, England, plan to follow suit in 2013. United Kingdom-based Atlantis Resources and partners Lockheed Martin Canada and Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax are also slated to test a turbine that year.
(bbundale@herald.ca)
via NSP gives up berth at tidal energy test site | The Chronicle Herald.
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TIDES: Time lapse of 45.6 foot tide at Hopewell Rocks
This is a time lapse video created to show an entire day at the Hopewell Rocks. The camera captured one photo every minute for 16 hours. The photos were then put into a stop-motion video program to create this video.
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OPINION: “Orwellian” Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News, Vancouver
Government experts tracked a new ozone hole, but were not allowed to give interviews
The Canadian government has been accused of “muzzling” its scientists.
Speakers at a major science meeting being held in Canada said communication of vital research on health and environment issues is being suppressed.
But one Canadian government department approached by the BBC said it held the communication of science as a priority.
Prof Thomas Pedersen, a senior scientist at the University of Victoria, said he believed there was a political motive in some cases.
“The Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) is keen to keep control of the message, I think to ensure that the government won’t be embarrassed by scientific findings of its scientists that run counter to sound environmental stewardship,” he said.
Professor Thomas PedersenUniversity of Victoria
“I suspect the federal government would prefer that its scientists don’t discuss research that points out just how serious the climate change challenge is.”
The Canadian government recently withdrew from the Kyoto protocol to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The allegation of “muzzling” came up at a session of the AAAS meeting to discuss the impact of a media protocol introduced by the Conservative government shortly after it was elected in 2008.
The protocol requires that all interview requests for scientists employed by the government must first be cleared by officials. A decision as to whether to allow the interview can take several days, which can prevent government scientists commenting on breaking news stories.
Sources say that requests are often refused and when interviews are granted, government media relations officials can and do ask for written questions to be submitted in advance and elect to sit in on the interview.
‘Orwellian‘ approach
Andrew Weaver, an environmental scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, described the protocol as “Orwellian”.
More at … BBC News – Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’.
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