N.S. pledges to end use of coal for electricity 10 years earlier than scheduled
Eighty per cent of the province’s electricity would come from renewables by 2030.
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Eighty per cent of the province’s electricity would come from renewables by 2030.
Nova Scotia is moving to legislate a series of environment and climate change targets that include a new goal of phasing out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030.
Premier Tim Houston’s first cabinet includes 7 women, several new departments and a white MLA as minister of African Nova Scotian affairs.
The massive funding announcement is welcome news to many—given the rising costs of care and impact of COVID-19 on daycares, which caused some centres to shutter over the past year. But the provincial NDP’s education and early childhood development critic Claudia Chender said today’s announcement comes far too late to help those who most need support. “We’re in a pretty huge bind as far as childcare goes in Nova Scotia,” Chender said in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “We don’t have enough ECEs, we have a massive wage disparity between the public sector...