The Poverty Reduction Strategy Coalition of Nova Scotia has released a new document: Framework for a Poverty Reduction Strategy for Nova Scotia. It is now available online through the Community Action on Homelessness Website.

Nova Scotia's privately owned electric company is increasing the rates by about 4%. According to a CBC article, "Some have to choose between heating and eating as N.S. power rates go up again," this will be the third increase in five years and many poor residents and welfare recipitants can't afford to pay any more. The Affordable Energy Coalition, a coalition of anti-poverty and environmental groups are worried that the power utility will tie electricity prices to fossil fuel costs. They are pushing for Nova Scotia to become less dependent on fossil fuels and to focus on energy efficiency, and lower prices for low income people.

An article in the Dominion,"Race and Waste in Nova Scotia" outlines the struggle of a small black community in rural Nova Scotia to fight the opening of a second landfill in their area. The residents have argued that they have recieved no economic benefit from the first landfill in their community and a second landfill will just add to the poverty and health problems of the residents. The Save Lincolnville Campaign accuses the municipality of environmental racism, defined as: "The intentional situating of hazardous waste sites, landfills, incinerators and polluting industries in and around communities inhabited mainly by people of black descent and First Nations people, as well as the working poor."