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Originally Posted by miesh111
A bit of a tangent from the topic of the NSP building but somehwat related, I searched the NSUARB website for an hour looking for how someone gets on the board and more information on the people that are currently on it.
Perhaps this should be a seperate thread?
Does anybody know who these people are, what their backgrounds are, how you get appointed and what qualifications would be required. It seems the board is the "be all end all" of decisions our City Council can make, of decisions NSPower can make, and basically anything the provincial government doesn't want to get their hands dirty on. For a board with this much power, shouldn't we have a better idea as to who these people are, how they got where they got, and if possible, even be able to elect these people so they are accountable for the decisions they make?
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"miesh111" if you want to learn more about the URB just have a look through the Halifax Magazine this month. They have a lengthy article on the URB, the process, the current cases, the members, how they are picked and how long they stay.
To me I just consider the URB similar to the Supreme Court. The members are secretive, get hand-picked by the government (in this case Michael Baker), they stay on for life usually and they are the final decision makers.