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Energy

Pact reached for sale of hydro station

TORONTO - Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. says it agreed with Integrys Energy Services Inc. to buy certain power generation assets in New Brunswick and Maine. The company said it will buy three hydroelectric generating stations, including the 34.5 MW Tinker Hydroelectric station located on the Aroostook River near the Town of Perth-Andover, New Brunswick. It will also buy five legacy thermal stations and certain transmission lines near the generating facilities, it said in a statement. The company, which operates a portfolio of clean, renewable power generation and utility infrastructure assets across North America, said the hydro plants are interconnected to access the north-eastern electricity markets of Northern Maine, New Brunswick and New England.

Real Estate

CMHC reports 262 housing starts

MONCTON - According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's preliminary data released this week, residential construction in November produced a total of 262 starts in New Brunswick's urban centres compared to 381 units during the same period last year. "The year-over-year decline in single and multiple starts observed in October maintained a trend established early in the year, a trend that is likely to remain to the end of 2009," said Claude Gautreau, CMHC's senior market analyst for New Brunswick.

Award

Doctor honoured at Calgary forum

FREDERICTON - Shane Neilson received the Mimi Divinsky Award for History and Narrative in Family Medicine at the 2009 Family Medicine Forum in Calgary. It recognizes the best narrative account of experiences in family medicine and comes with a $1,000 cash prize, registration at the conference, and $1,000 to cover expenses. Neilson's topic was On Diagnosing Alzheimer's. He was born in Oromocto and attended the University of New Brunswick before completing medical school at Dalhousie University. A memoir of his experiences as a physician, Call Me Doctor, much of it published in the New Brunswick Reader, was published by Pottersfield Press in 2006.

Health

Body image focus of sessions

FREDERICTON - A group of nursing students from the University of New Brunswick has been discussing the dangers of eating disorders and concerns about body image at a series of public sessions. The next public workshop will be held today in Room 125 at MacLaggan Hall from 6-10 p.m. Spokeswoman Kaitlyn Adair said a group of eight third-year nursing students has been running a healthy body campaign dubbed No Body Is Perfect for members of the public over the past few weeks. "We have a lot of middle school students attend, and their parents are concerned, so they bring them in," Adair said.