The Utility and Review Board had invoked the Interrupter Clause on Tuesday decreasing gas prices in the province by 7.0 cents per litre.

The minimum pump price for regular self-serve gasoline is now 174.5 cents per litre locally.

There’s no change in diesel prices.

 

 

The Nova Scotia government says new regulations mean the province’s privately owned power utility could be fined if it fails to address service complaints from industrial customers in a “reasonable” time frame.

Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables Tory Rushton says that large industrial customers of Nova Scotia Power have lost millions of dollars over the years due to outages.

Going forward, complaints to Nova Scotia Power from industrial customers must be addressed within 18 months, or the utility will be fined 25-thousand dollars per month that the complaint goes unresolved.

The province says the utility can address complaints by investing in industrial-scale batteries or other electrical equipment to improve grid resilience, or it can move some of its customers onto higher-voltage transmission lines.

 

 

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has approved the 10-million-dollar settlement of a class-action sexual abuse lawsuit filed more than four years ago against the Roman Catholic church.

A lawyer says the settlement involves about 90 survivors who were allegedly sexually abused by clergy working with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth.

They will each be paid between 30-thousand and 350-thousand dollars.

The suit involved allegations dating back to 1954 and most of the survivors are now seniors.

 

 

Nova Scotia RCMP have released impaired driving related statistics for Nova Scotia for the month of October.

In October, Nova Scotia RCMP charged 155 drivers with impaired related offences.

81 were charged with Impaired Driving by way of Alcohol; 5 were charged with Impaired driving by Drug; 16 were charged with Refusal of a Demand Made by an Officer; and 53 were issued driving suspensions for driving While Having Consumed Alcohol.

 

 

RCMP are investigating the theft of a trailer.

The black 2023 TowTek Enclosed Trailer, valued at approximately $19,000, was stolen from a parking lot on Pictou Road in Valley between November 11 and November 14.

Anyone with information, or who knows the whereabouts of the trailer, is asked to contact the Colchester County District RCMP.