HALIFAX—Nova Scotia will be allowed to use coal-fired electrical plants beyond the new federal deadline to phase them out by 2030. The concession is part of negotiations toward a new equivalency agreement that recognizes the work Nova Scotia has already done on greenhouse gas reductions. Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was in Halifax this afternoon to make the announcement. Under the current agreement, the province must hit targets of a 25 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 and a 55 per cent reduction by 2030. Once it is finalized, the new agreement will allow Nova Scotia to find equivalent reductions that would have been realized through reducing coal in other areas of the electricity sector.

Source: thestar November 21, 2016 21:45 UTC