As part of The Times’s coverage of the global climate summit last year, I wrote an article about a project in Nova Scotia designed to create renewable electricity from the Bay of Fundy’s exceptional tides. Now, a regulatory roadblock means that the pilot project may soon shut down.
The Bay of Fundy’s extraordinary tides have long been viewed as a source of abundant electrical power. At the Minas Passage — the narrowest portion of the bay — the water level rises or falls about 17…