It's like living in a Walmart parking lot and it's unpleasant," said Patrick Moan, a resident on Edward Street in south end Halifax. The municipality is a year and a half into a new energy saving project that will see 40,000 street lights replaced with high efficiency LEDs by 2022. We can actually read without any lights on at 11 o'clock at night without any lights on we can read books. However, he acknowledges some are concerned about light that is significantly brighter than the old street lights. A compromise works for Moan who says he's hoping the lights can be dimmed or directed down reducing some of the light pollution.

Source: CBC News April 20, 2017 01:30 UTC