Open in full screen mode It took four months to clean up the fuel oil spilled by the Tufts Cove generating station into Halifax Harbour. Radio-Canada Speech synthesis, based on artificial intelligence, makes it possible to generate spoken text from written text. Nova Scotia Power must pay the costs associated with a fuel oil spill at its Tufts Cove power plant on the Dartmouth waterfront in 2018. Costs in addition to the $175,000 fine imposed by a Nova Scotia provincial court when the company pleaded guilty to an offense under the Fisheries Act. Approximately 24,000 liters of heavy fuel oil were spilled in Halifax Harbor on August 2, 2018. The company said the spill had been caused by a rusty pipe.
Rocks on the bank stained with fuel oil after the spill.
The Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board finds Nova Scotia Power failed to properly inspect its pipes before the leak.
The company did not remove the insulation around the pipe to check for corrosion, the Commission wrote in its decision.
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Nova Scotia Power made this decision knowing that the section of pipe would not have been inspected for a long time and knowing that corrosion in other parts of its heavy fuel oil (HFO) piping system led her to expand the scope of an ongoing investment project.
The Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Commission's findings were part of a broader decision on the costs the utility claimed under its fuel adjustment mechanism which ensures that customers pay the actual cost of the fuel used to generate electricity, not an estimate.
The Commission alleges that Nova Scotia Power was reckless in refusing to allocate $157,921 in additional costs and an additional $1.8 million which the Commission alleges would have been returned to customers as excess revenue if the #x27;company did not have to pay for the spill.
The Commission estimates that the total cost to the utility will be approximately $2 million, plus interest.
Nova Scotia Power admits corroded pipe caused oil spill at its Tufts power plant Cove, in Halifax. Just over 24,000 liters of oil leaked from the pipeline into the Port of Halifax in 2018.
Jacqueline Foster, a spokesperson for Nova Scotia Power, says the company is studying the Public Utilities Review and Review Commission's decision. Nova Scotia.
We operate facilities across the province and take our responsibility to protect the environment very seriously, she says .
We have taken steps to reduce the risk of incidents by implementing a risk-based inspection program that meets recommended standards related to inspections and maintenance of fuel transport infrastructure.
With information from Blair Rhodes, ofCBC
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