The trucks that typically deliver fuel across Halifax are sitting idle behind the Maritime Fuels building in Dartmouth, N.S.
The Nova Scotia-based company filed for bankruptcy protection last week.
There are thousands of Nova Scotias that have paid for what they thought was going to be their heat source for the winter and now theyre not going to be able to get that, says Nova Scotia Liberal leader Zach Churchill.
Licensed insolvency trustee, PwC, has been appointed to deal with creditors.
Churchill says that doesn’t do much for people who need to heat their homes today.
He wants the government to open the home Heating Assistance Rebate Program, or HARP, to those who have lost money.
The current heating assistance rebate program is $600,…
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