Read my posts to see brief notes on where HA is at with electric.
(You have to stumble around their site to find pages especially earlier ones like first flight - which took place in late 2019, don’t know what you are saying about long ago.
Certainly agree is lunacy but the boss of HA has imbibed the cool-aid: https://www.harbourair.com/corporate-responsibility/goingelectric/
Claims to be carbon neutral already? Pfft.
It’s probably still his money though was a fling with ‘Chinese’ money for operations there - that may have been reversed. HA did set up a small subsidiary in Malta.
HA operates under more than one name, perhaps still some it purchased such as Salt Spring Air, had a land-based charter airline. (Its airplanes are convertible land-water but Tantalus Air used a PC-12 for speed.) Has been seasonally exchanging Twin Otters with the renowned Ken Borek Air in Calgary, as seasons complement considering BC coast and Arctic/Antarctica.