It's been a long time coming, but the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is back online as of today.
The
facility is expected to provide 25 to 30 years of power to both New
Brunswickers and export customers.Gaeten Thomas, president and CEO of NB
Power, tells Tide News the customer rates will level out in the long
term despite the project's widely-broadcast cost overruns.
There
have been seemingly endless delays in the refurbishment project, which
began in 2008. Tests and monitoring will continue during the early weeks
of the plant's operation.
Remembrance Day has passed, but our veterans aren't forgotten.
Saint
John MP Rodney Weston announcing a contribution of up to over
$20,000 dollars to restore a memorialhonouring those who served in the
First and Second World Wars, the
Korean War, peacekeeping operations and modern missions.
The monument will be cleaned and polished, and various parts of it will be updated and replaced.
A
coroner ruled Friday that an inquest into the prison death of a New
Brunswick teenager will be broadly based despite objections raised by
several doctors who treated her.
The three Ontario doctors argued
the inquest should focus only on the last days of Ashley Smith's life
at the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ontario.
Smith's
family, backed by other parties, wanted the coroner to examine much
more, including how Smith was treated at other prisons in other
provinces long before her death.
The 19-year-old Smith choked to death in October 2007 as guards essentially stood by.
(Courtesy of the Canadian Press)
It may not come as a surprise, but the province's oil giants the Irvings are among the wealthiest Canadians.
That's
according to Canadian Business magazine's annual ranking of Canada's
wealthiest, putting industrialists James, Arthur and the late Jack
Irving at # 3 on the list.
The trio have a combined net worth of about 8-billion dollars.
Topping the list was the Thomson family, owners of Thomson Reuters, at more than $20-billion dollars.
Making physics a little less intimidating and a lot more fun.
That's
the goal of Physics–Ploration, a series of exciting physic presentations
and experiments at the Saint John Free Public library.
UNB
Saint John physics professor Dr. Li-Hong Xu sets up and explains the
experiments to get students from elementary to high school curious about
the science. She says very few people get into physics because they
think it's hard, but Xu stresses that anything is hard and just like
anything you have to work on it. She says physics is part of our
everyday life and it's interesting to understand the world you're living
in.
The
experiments are designed as hands on activities for students. Today's
session will focus on forces. Xu describes some forces as visible --
such as push and pull -- while others are invisible like electromagnetic
and gravity. Other sessions in the past have even focused on physics in
the kitchen, like how a microwave can measure the speed of light.
Today's presentation will run from 1:00 until 2:00 pm in the multipurpose room on the second floor in Saint John.
