New Brunswick drivers appear likely to face two new carbon-related charges this time next month that could add as much as 12.4 cents per litre to the price of gasoline and 14.2 cents to diesel, factoring in all changes including the effect of the HST.
Gasoline producers and retailers in New Brunswick will gain the ability to try to convince regulators to let them pass on the costs of federal emissions-reduction policies to consumers.
New Brunswick would have made more than $200 million in timber royalties during a recent 13 month surge in lumber prices had it copied rates in use by the Alberta government it was studying, documents from both provinces show.
SHUBENACADIE, N.S. At Nova Scotia s fire protection headquarters, wildfire investigator Kara McCurdy goes through a large black container, showing some of the gear she took with her when she went to help battle wildfires in British Columbia earlier this month. McCurdy is Nova Scotia s only female wildfire investigator and has been the only Nova Scotian sent to B.C. for firefighting efforts so far this fire season. It s challenging, you re packing on a whim, you re going to help in another province, it s extreme conditions, you don t know where you re going to be staying, living day-to-day, she says. She departed for B.C. July 10 and returned this past Sunday.