Nova Scotia’s private power company has named a new chief executive as the utility deals with fallout from last year’s cyberattack and seeks a widely criticized hike in power rates. Nova Scotia Power says current president and CEO Peter Gregg will leave his post on March 1 to become vice-president of strategy and policy with […]

Nova Scotia’s energy regulator is planning a two-part inquiry into last year’s cyberattack at the province’s private power utility.  One set of hearings will examine the technical aspects of the March 2025 cyberattack at Nova Scotia Power where the personal information of 280,000 customers was accessed. Company officials have said the attack was likely by […]

Nova Scotia’s private power utility says its automatic billing system that was disrupted by a cyberattack almost a year ago should be back to normal next month. Since the attack on Nova Scotia Power in March 2025, some customers have reportedly received bills up to three times higher than the same period the year before. […]

A request from Nova Scotia’s power utility to conserve energy is being met with less than favourable reactions online.  Nova Scotia Power posted on social media several times over the weekend, asking customers to conserve energy as extremely cold temperatures hit the province.  In response, comments and reactions to the request did not hold back.  […]

On December 10, Brampton Councillor Pat Fortini walked into the apartment building at 507 Balmoral Drive. He was disgusted by what he saw. He shared his experience with his fellow councillors during a meeting the next day, and confronted the representative of the building owner standing before him in the council chamber. “I was there […]

A provincial energy board hearing on Nova Scotia Power’s application to raise residential electricity rates begins today. Political leaders have slammed the privately owned utility over the proposed hikes, with Premier Tim Houston calling on Nova Scotia Power to withdraw or “significantly reduce” its application. The province’s largest power utility has proposed rate increases of […]

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he is disappointed with how the privately owned provincial utility responded to a cyberattack earlier this year. The cyberattack struck Nova Scotia Power last April, disrupting some systems at the utility and prompting complaints from a number of customers about who had gained access to their personal information.  Houston […]

The president and chief executive officer of Nova Scotia Power says a Russia-based actor is likely behind a cybersecurity breach that targeted the utility’s customers in April. “This incident was an unprecedented, sophisticated and targeted attack,” Peter Gregg told a committee of the Nova Scotia legislature in prepared remarks on Tuesday. “Based on expert assessments […]

Nova Scotia’s largest electric utility says it has fallen months behind in paying contractors and suppliers because of a cyberattack in March that saw hackers trying to steal personal information from more than 200,000 ratepayers. Nova Scotia Power spokeswoman Jacqueline Foster apologized on behalf of the utility on Monday, saying invoices are being paid, but […]

Nova Scotia’s official Opposition says it will pressure the government to address affordability during the fall legislature sitting, starting by introducing legislation to lower power bills.  NDP Leader Claudia Chender told reporters Tuesday morning her party’s bill would issue a rebate to residents that would lower Nova Scotia Power bills by 10 per cent. “Since […]

Nova Scotia Power’s CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility’s customer records. Peter Gregg said in an interview Thursday that the privately owned utility collected the numbers from customers to authenticate their identities. “If there are a number of John MacDonalds, it […]

Ontario placed a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to the United States on Monday as Canada braced for steel and aluminum duties the Trump administration is set to deploy on Wednesday. “I feel terrible for the American people, because it’s not the American people who started this trade war,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford […]