(TRURO) – On Friday night, May 18, experts in tidal power spoke to an audience of renewable energy activists about the future of tidal power in Nova Scotia. The two-hour presentation featured Dr. Richard Karsten, Dr. Shelley MacDougall and Dr. Graham Daborn, non-partisan tidal power experts from the Acadia Tidal Energy Institute. Topics included the...
With Tuesday’s election results from BC confirmed, Canada has now elected six Green Party representatives at the federal and provincial levels. In addition to federal leader Elizabeth May and the three seats in BC, New Brunswick and PEI each have elected a Green MLA. At the municipal level, many, many more have been elected. “Today’s...
The Green Party of Nova Scotia has a new leader. Thomas Trappenberg, voted in on Saturday at the party’s annual convention and general meeting at Dalhousie University, says the time was right for him and for the party. “We needed someone,” he said Sunday. “And we are also at the time that people (are) really (ready to)...
Computer scientist Thomas Trappenberg will run for Nova Scotia’s Green Party in the Halifax Needham byelection, after a tumultuous and grief-stricken summer that nearly saw the end of the province’s political movement. “We had a close call. You know, a lot of our members, they don’t really want to be politicians. They are really engaged,...
