Long-Running Newspaper Quotes Telile LJI Interview for Story

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LJI Journalist Name

AdamTelile

LJI Partner Name

Telile Community Televison

Region

Maritimes

Community

Arichat NS

PORT HAWKESBURY - In a milestone for Telile Community Television's participation in the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) as overseen by the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), the work of an LJI journalist was quoted extensively in a front-page story published by one of the longest-running weekly newspapers in Cape Breton Island. It was and is an important topic for Nova Scotians - the imposition of a carbon tax on petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and home heating oil.

The editor of The Strait Area Reporter, Jake Boudrot, referenced LJI journalist Adam Cooke's mid-September interview with Inverness MLA, Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Allan MacMaster, in an article published in the 42-year-old newspaper's November 30 edition.

The interview, conducted shortly after the Nova Scotia government failed to win Ottawa's support for the province's proposals to address climate change without imposing a carbon-pricing structure, featured MacMaster's concerns that the federal government was unnecessarily forcing low-income Nova Scotians to accept higher prices for gasoline, diesel and home heating oil.

"There is the immediate cost when you go to fill your car or truck up at the gas pump," MacMaster told Cooke. "You're going to be paying 14 cents more per litre. But then, we know all too well from the past few months that when the price of gas goes up, so does everything else."

The Reporter also quoted three more comments from MacMaster's interview for the 100th episode of the weekly LJI-produced newsmagazine TELILE 24/7. These included the Finance Minister's take on the forthcoming price hike for home heating oil and his challenges to the assertion that the provincial government has dragged its feet on the carbon-pricing issue, submitting Nova Scotia's proposal to Ottawa only days before a deadline of August 31, 2022.

The Reporter's article "Strait are cabinet ministers clash over carbon tax" also referenced a September 15 Facebook post from MacMaster on the same issue, Interviews commissioned in the run-up to the article's publication on November 30 included Central Nova MP and federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser and Cape Breton-Canso MP Mike Kelloway. Media statements from Premier Tim Houston and provincial NDP Leader Claudia Chender were also incorporated into the story.

The entire article is still available at The Reporter's official Web site at this link: https://porthawkesburyreporter.com/strait-area-cabinet-ministers-clash-over-carbon-tax/

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