Nova Scotia cabinet minister John MacDonnell says he sees Wednesday’s drop in gas prices as good news.  He says the activation of the ‘interrupter clause’ is an indication that the Utility and Review Board is watching the markets closely.   

“I buy gas, I like to see the price as low as possible,” he says. “I think it indicates that regulation does work.  I think people are much more easily convinced of that when prices go down rather than when prices go up.”

The province’s regulator invoked the rarely used interrupter clause Wednesday night to drop prices around Nova Scotia by 6.1 cents per litre.