Larry Hughes

Halifax

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Articles

If all else fails, there’s still coal

1 month ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

Nova Scotia Power’s first quarter Management Discussion and Analysis for 2025 offered some surprising news, high energy costs, supply chain issues, and global demand for wind turbines saw the company return to an old energy source to help it get through the winter, coal. Demand for electricity in Nova Scotia changes throughout the year, from a summertime minimum in the third quarter of the year (July through September), to a maximum in the first quarter of the year (January through March).
The tax has been axed, but Nova Scotia still has emissions targets

2 months ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

The carbon tax as we knew it is now a thing of the past. A sad testament to the ineptitude of the last federal Liberal government and the power of disinformation promoted by federal and provincial Conservative parties. The shortcomings of Canada’s entire carbon-pricing system can be revealed by taking a quick glance at Canada’s emissions data for 2005 to 2023 (published late last month by Environment and Climate Change Canada and summarized in the chart below).
A day late and a dollar short: Exporting Canadian natural gas to the EU

Mar 28, 2025 | canadianinquirer.net | Larry Hughes

Sign up for A Stronger Canada for The Trump Era. A temporary newsletter with the latest Canada-U.S. analyses from Policy Options. Canada is the world’s fifth largest producer and seventh largest exporter of natural gas. However, unlike most other natural gas exporters, Canada’s market is limited to a single customer – the United States.
Now can Canada get its natural gas to Europe?

Mar 28, 2025 | policyoptions.irpp.org | Larry Hughes

Sign up for A Stronger Canada for The Trump Era. A temporary newsletter with the latest Canada-U.S. analyses from Policy Options. Canada is the world’s fifth largest producer and seventh largest exporter of natural gas. However, unlike most other natural gas exporters, Canada’s market is limited to a single customer – the United States.
Nova Scotia’s energy system and the risks of America’s tariff war

Mar 21, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

Nova Scotia, like all jurisdictions, has an energy system. This system is responsible for supplying the energy we all use for end-use services such as space and hot-water heating, lighting and appliances, transportation, building services such as elevators, and industrial applications. In 2023, about two-thirds of the energy consumed by Nova Scotians was supplied by petroleum products like gasoline and home-heating fuel, a quarter from electricity, and the remainder from natural gas.
Tariffs and Nova Scotia’s energy future: Where will the natural gas come from?

Feb 21, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

The tariffs that could be imposed on Canada by the United States have produced a backlash from many Canadians. One premier has threatened to stop supplying the United States with energy, while many Canadians are doing their best to avoid purchasing goods from the United States. One product that Nova Scotia relies on is natural gas from the U.S. The reliance has increased with the final shutdown of Nova Scotia’s offshore natural gas wells in 2018.
Premier Tim Houston’s letter to the Nova Scotians: more oversold and underwhelming energy projects

Feb 3, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

On January 21, 2025, Premier Tim Houston sent a letter to the members of his caucus. An abridged version was made available to Nova Scotians as a paid advertisement on the front page of the Chronicle Herald on January 25, 2025.
Are Canada's 2030 and 2035 emissions targets realistic?

Jan 21, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

For at least 20 years, Canada has been submitting its annual National Inventory Report (NIR) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The NIR is a record of Canada’s actual territorial and provincial greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to the year two years prior to the NIR’s release data (for example, the most recent NIR for 2024 has national emissions data for 1990 to 2022).
The hidden costs of Premier Tim Houston’s sustainable aviation fuel promise

Nov 25, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

In September 2022, Premier Tim Houston announced that “Nova Scotia is open for business and becoming an international leader in offshore wind and green hydrogen development.”Two years later in November 2024, Houston’s election platform promised that his party “will make Nova Scotia a world class energy producer in hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel [SAF].”Without much fanfare, Houston had added sustainable aviation fuel to his list of future energy promises.
Nova Scotia Power and the importance of Muskrat Falls

Sep 26, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Larry Hughes

The Nova Scotia government is committed to reducing the province’s greenhouse gases to 10.8 megatonnes (or million tonnes) or less by 2030. This is a decrease of about 12.1 megatonnes, or 53%, below the province’s 2005 emissions. Nova Scotia Power (NSP), which will be responsible for most of this reduction, is required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from 9.3 megatonnes in 2010 to 4.5 megatonnes or less in 2030.