More than 200 people attended a Pictou County town hall to ask Premier Tim Houston about the 100-turbine Websters Corner wind project Bear Head Energy is proposing for the Blue Mountain area of Pictou County. The Halifax Examiner’s Joan Baxter summarizes the event, the community's concerns, and Premier Houston’s response.

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Award-winning journalist Karin Finkenzeller writes regularly about the green hydrogen projects proposed in Canada and for the German markets; the article appears in Germany's weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche and the Halifax Examiner. In this article, Finkenzeller investigates the Germany-Canada energy and hydrogen partnership, which concluded in 2022, and questions the viability of the green-hydrogen economy without government subsidies.

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The Halifax Examiner criticized Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative government's plans for a new "hydrogen innovation program" as “greenwashing” when the government's Law Amendments Committee passed Bill 207, the Electricity Act amendments. The Examiner’s Joan Baxter speaks with experts, including energy coordinator Brenna Walsh at the Ecology Action Centre, who explains, “Though it is encouraging to see the intentions of this government to consider green hydrogen production, we are concerned that this amendment, as written, would open a pathway for other “flavours” [colours] of hydrogen production.”

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The Halifax Examiner—as have others—investigates the origins of all the hydrogen hype. The Examiner reports that much of the rhetoric in the European Union goes back to “Dutch hydrogen professor” Ad van Wijk, a “failed businessman and part-time professor who made it his mission to promote the use of hydrogen.” 

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The Halifax Examiner’s Joan Baxter reviews The Ecology Action Centre’s statement on “wind energy, land use and green hydrogen production in Nova Scotia,” and their serious concerns about the use of energy from land-based wind facilities to produce that “green hydrogen.”

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On November 29, 2023, Global Affairs Canada's press release about a $125 million loan to EverWind Fuels in Nova Scotia did not mention that it was in US dollars, resulting in $41 million more public dollars than initially believed. Joan Baxter and the Halifax Examiner uncovered the misleading statement about Export Development Canada’s loans to Nova Scotia-registered EverWind Fuels, a private company founded by a New York-based Australian private equity company.

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The Halifax Examiner’s Joan Baxter closely examines and questions Premier Tim Houston's 44-page Green Hydrogen Action Plan to position Nova Scotia “as a world leader in clean economic growth and environmental stewardship” and how the government plans to facilitate green energy production to assist in hydrogen/ammonia production and export. But at what cost?

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Joan Baxter of the Halifax Examiner contacted Michael Liebreich for a question-and-answer session on Hydrogen. Liebreich is a member of the UK Board of Trade, a former advisor to the UN on Sustainable Energy for All, and an expert on the hydrogen economy.

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The Halifax Examiner criticized Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative government's plans for a new "hydrogen innovation program" as “greenwashing” when the government's Law Amendments Committee passed Bill 207, the Electricity Act amendments. The Examiner’s Joan Baxter speaks with experts, including energy coordinator Brenna Walsh at the Ecology Action Centre, who explains, “Though it is encouraging to see the intentions of this government to consider green hydrogen production, we are concerned that this amendment, as written, would open a pathway for other “flavours” [colours] of hydrogen production.”

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