- Emera
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name = Emera Incorporated
type = Public
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location_city = Halifax, Nova Scotia
location_country = Canada
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key_people = Christopher G. Huskilson (CEO )
industry = Electric Utilities
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num_employees = 2,194 (2008)cite web |url=http://zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=CA;EMA&page=quotesearch |title=Company Profile for Emera Incorporated (CA;EMA) |accessdate=2008-10-08]
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homepage = [http://www.emera.com www.emera.com]
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intl =Emera Incorporated (TSX|EMA) is a Halifax,
Nova Scotia based energy and services company with 570,000 customers.It operates three utility subsidiaries:
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Nova Scotia Power
*Bangor Hydro-Electric
*Saint Lucia Electricity Services Limited (Lucelec)It also operates an energy investment company,
Emera Energy , and a utility service contractor known asCablecom .Emera was created out of the
privatization of the provincialCrown corporation Nova Scotia Power Incoporated (NSPI) in 1991. In 1999, NSPI was reorganized with the creation of Nova Scotia Power Holdings Inc. NSPI became a wholly-owned subsidiary of NSPHI, which began publicly trading on theToronto Stock Exchange that year. In an effort to focus on growth outside the province of Nova Scotia, NSPHI was renamed Emera Incorporated in 2000. In 2001, Emera purchased Bangor Hydro-Electric.Through its Emera Energy division, Emera owns
Brunswick Pipeline , a company which is currently planning construction of anatural gas pipeline across southernNew Brunswick , and 12.9% of theMaritimes and Northeast Pipeline , a natural gas transport company in theMaritimes and northernNew England .References
External links
* [http://www.emera.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.lucelec.com/ Saint Lucia Electricity Services Limited (Lucelec)]
* [http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?newsid=4885149&tick=EMA Emera Invests $22 Million in St. Lucia Electric Utility]
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