Facing a abeyant bulk tag of $40 million, Nova Scotia Ability says it's award agency to lower the bulk of removing asbestos insulation from two of its coal-fired electrical breeding plants.
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The aggregation told regulators in a Dec. 28 filing that it's arrest a ample allocation of the expense: staging and anchor assignment areas to accommodated Nova Scotia Labour Department guidelines.
Nova Scotia Power's 500,000 barter accept a pale in the exercise, as they ultimately will bottom the bill.
"Nova Scotia Power's analysis of its asbestos-management practices included analytical how to abbreviate these costs and has resulted in modifications to the appliance of these practices," Mark Peachey, the utility's administrator of basic filings, told regulators.
The aggregation said there is no set end date for this assignment at Trenton and Point Tupper. It expects it will abide over the next five to 10 years.
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Spokesperson Tiffany Chase said the aggregation does not yet apperceive how much its new plan will save.
"We are currently developing estimates based on the new practices and acceptance them with a third party. We apprehend to accept all the estimates complete by March of this year," Chase said in a accounting account to CBC News.
The aggregation said the affairs is accurate by collective anatomic bloom and assurance committees, which accept had ascribe into the revised practices.
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The Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Advanced Education said it is not commonly consulted unless there are questions about its guidelines.
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"It is absolute back anyone commits to managing the safe abatement of asbestos application our guidelines," agent Lisa Jarrett said in a statement.
The Nova Scotia Account and Analysis Lath started allurement questions afterwards the bulk of removing asbestos at Nova Scotia Power's Trenton breeding bulb for the 2016 year back it jumped from a approaching $154,000 to $2.1 million.
The aggregation said it was affected to abode an abrupt analysis of asbestos in areas of the bulb that are decumbent to vibration. To accommodate added alternate wind ability assimilate the grid, Trenton and added plants are actuality shut bottomward and restarted added frequently, accretion accordance and the accident of asbestos disturbance.
Nova Scotia Ability told the Nova Scotia Account and Analysis Lath it charge abolish about 2,225 metres of asbestos insulation at Trenton and 1,524 metres from its Point Tupper bulb at the Strait of Canso. It was acclimated primarily on high-temperature piping, boiler and aqueduct work.
The aggregation estimated the absolute abatement and encapsulation costs for anniversary bulb at amid $15 and $20 million, which agency the absolute activity could bulk $40 million.
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The lath told Nova Scotia Power to complete a analysis of the way it deals with asbestos by Dec. 31. In response, Nova Scotia Ability has developed a new accident cast that prioritizes removing asbestos from pipes that vibrate, such as steam lines. The aim is to aerate removals during consistently appointed aliment downtime.
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Nova Scotia Ability says it has subdivided areas with asbestos into 25 audible abatement areas.
"This access introduces bulk efficiencies by acceptance the appliance of beyond enclosures to accord with all brim in an abatement breadth at the aforementioned time, instead of commutual an asbestos abatement on one breadth of insulation as it is found," Peachey told the board.
The account is additionally because multi-year affairs with third-party companies, if that's cheaper than application on a project-by-project basis. The ability aggregation says its revised asbestos administration plan will be completed in the aboriginal bisected of 2018.
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It will be put into convenance aboriginal at Trenton during a planned abeyance this abatement and during a planned abeyance at Point Tupper in 2019.
A third bulb — Tufts Cove in Dartmouth — has a baby bulk of asbestos remaining. Abatement there will be completed in 2018 at an estimated bulk of $200,000.
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