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· Application · 11/30/2010
Nova Scotia Power filed a capital work order (CI# 33562) seeking UARB approval for $1,899,162 to migrate remaining NSPI property titles to the Nova Scotia Land Registration Act system.
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- Nova Scotia Power Incorporated submitted Work Order CI# 33562 on November 24, 2010, requesting authorization for $1,899,162 in Capital Expenditures to complete Phase II of its Land Registration Act title migration program, a modest increase over the ACE 2010 budget estimate of $1,892,331 (Approval Sheet, p. 2).
- The project covers migration of approximately 527 parcels associated with generation facilities, substations, depot properties, and vacant/inactive lands, as well as resolution of ~20 properties unresolved from Phase I and registration of statutory declarations against unused rights-of-way (IR-GP21 Response, pp. 2–3).
- The urgency rationale is legal risk protection: historic easements and deeds dating to the 1920s–1930s fall outside standard lawyer search periods under the new system, and unoccupied lands are at elevated risk of adverse possession claims if not migrated (IR-GP21 Response, p. 1).
- External legal services were sole-sourced following a qualitative review of law firm capabilities by NSPI's assistant general counsel, with a projected five-year completion timeline through 2014 (IR-GP21 Response, p. 3).
- The revised cost estimate reflects lower labour (−$36,000) and consulting (−$198,165) relative to ACE 2010, offset by higher royalties and easements (+$256,949), with total project variance of $6,831 over the ACE budget (Variance table, p. 5).
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What was filed
Documents filed on this day
- N-1 Redacted Work Order