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

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HALIFAX, N.S. — 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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