Category: Saint John

Irving Oil wants the National Energy Board to reject two new criteria set by the new panel examining the Energy East pipeline proposal.

Irving sent a letter to the board saying the panel should not consider the pipeline’s effect on marine traffic in the Bay of Fundy or on downstream emissions caused by the end users of the gas or oil. The company said the end users will use relatively the same amount of fuel as they are now, so the emissions would be about the ame. It also says marine traffic is already monitored closed in the Bay…and that is sufficient.

Health Minister Victor Boudreau fired Rino Volpe as CEO of the Vitalité Health network in 2014…and that is going to cost the government over half a million dollars.

Justice Larry Landry issued a summary decision in the wrongful dismissal lawsuit that Volpe’s firing was not justified and awarded him $525,000 in damages and legal costs. Landry noted affadavits from various officials that Volpe was difficult to deal with and was not a yes man…but that  the complaints were not sufficient to fire him without cause.