Over $75 million in fees, taxes and other charges collected annually from N.B. Power by the New Brunswick government could be adjusted to compensate the utility for a delay in this year's rate increase, if it occurs.
Today in History for Sept. 9: In 1087, William the Conqueror, England's first king, died in a riding accident in France. In 1776, the second Continental Congress changed the name of the United Colonies to the United States of America.
Provincial property taxes of nearly $600,000 levied on Irving Oil Limited's deep-water crude-oil tank farm back in March was an error that did not signal an end to a four-decade-old tax exemption on the site, according to the New Brunswick government.