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As seen in The Daily Gleaner on December 11th, 2010.

I have been wanting to write about Lepreau for some time now, but the timing has never seemed quite right. We can’t pick up a newspaper without seeing how far over budget and behind schedule the project is. What I haven’t been seeing throughout all of this is anything putting the project into context.

As seen in The Daily Gleaner on June 26th, 2010.

Saint John Mayor Ivan Court recently announced that he opposes the expansion of the Mackay Highway. This got me thinking - just what is the true cost of owning and operating a vehicle in Canada?

As seen in The Daily Gleaner on February 27th, 2010.

A recent McKinsey study estimated that employing profitable energy efficiency measures (i.e. measures that actually pay for themselves) in US homes could reduce energy consumption by 28 per cent by 2020.

The savings are likely to be similar for Canadian homes. Many of the changes are straightforward, cheap and effective, such as programmable thermostats, which were present in only 31 per cent of Canadian households in 2007.

As seen in The Daily Gleaner on January 16th, 2010.

For most people in New Brunswick, the idea of time-based pricing of electricity seems pretty foreign. We're used to a flat rate per kilowatt-hour for the electricity we use. However, just like any other product we use, the cost of generating that electricity varies quite dramatically based on how it was made - we just don't see it at our end.