Emera
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'''Emera Incorporated''' ({{TSX|EMA}}) is a [[Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]] based energy and services company with 570,000 customers.
It operates two utility subsidiaries:
* [[Nova Scotia Power]]
* [[Bangor Hydro-Electric]]
It also operates an energy investment company, [[Emera Energy]], and a utility service contractor known as [[Cablecom]].
Emera was created out of the [[privatization]] of the provincial [[Crown 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 the [[Toronto 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 a [[natural gas]] pipeline across southern [[New Brunswick]], and 12.9% of the [[Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline]], a natural gas transport company in the [[Maritimes]] and northern [[New England]].
==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]
[[Category:Power companies of Canada]]
[[Category:S&P/TSX Composite Index]]
[[Category:Companies based in the Halifax Regional Municipality]]
[[Category:Natural gas pipeline companies]]
[[Category:Natural gas companies of Canada]]
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