Energy becomes big issue in Atlantic Canada as N.B. ties hopes to Quebec

by The Canadian Press

HALIFAX, N.S. Â— Competing visions of how to wean Atlantic Canada from fossil fuels and hook it into a greener hydroelectric grid have caused premiers to clash and old hopes of regional unity to falter.

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