NB Power wants to fast-track approval of big new gas plant

NB Power wants to fast-track approval of big new gas plant

NB Power has asked New Brunswick’s regulator to waive a key requirement before building a controversial new multimillion-dollar gas-diesel plant near Sackville.

Why here? Potential gas plant neighbours want to know how NB Power chose Centre Village » CHMA

AWI co-director Pam Novak stands on Route 940 and points towards an NB Power transmission line near which PROENERGY plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant. Photo: Erica Butler Ever since news started to spread about plans for a new natural gas-burning power plant in rural Tantramar, there’s one question that has dominated reactions from the region: why here? The proposed location for the ten-turbine, 500-megawatt plant certainly seems st…

‘Sears Sanctuary’ threatened by NB Power’s proposed 500 MW gas plant

The late Wallie Sears’s daughter Paula says her father would be dismayed by NB Power’s proposal to build a big natural gas generating plant 1.5 kilometres from land his family donated as a sanctuary for native wildlife and plants. “He would shake his head and say, ‘What will be left for the future?’” Paula Sears […]