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Bill Black: Premier Houston owns the electricity rate problem

Power customers may differ on who is out of touch

“Today, we learned that the independent Nova Scotia Energy Board – effectively the judge and jury on power rates – agreed with Nova Scotia Power (NSPI) and approved what they asked for. . . . I strongly disagree with this decision. It is out of touch in every way.”

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This sounds like a leader of the opposition. But, no, it is Premier Tim Houston, rushing to get ahead of the other parties, as if his government’s decisions have no blame for the outcome.

He stole all the opposition’s lines about a problem that he helped create.

His Progressive Conservative government passed the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act in 2021. It enshrined in law the requirement to stop using coal for electricity by 2030, echoing similar federal legislation by the Trudeau Liberals.

Neither government........

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