“In the Legislature and in public, Premier Holt asserted that there are good reasons for the shale gas moratorium, and that shale gas is a last century fuel. Incomprehensibly, in a political moment calling for unity, she has resurrected New Brunswick’s most contentious issue ‘for review,’ offering her constituents no explanation for this betrayal beyond the generic statement that, “things have changed.”
The article by CRED-NB champion Jim Emberger, spokesperson for NB Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA), explains why we don’t need another review on shale gas fracking. Research in the more than a decade since the moratorium was put in place has highlighted even more harms of fracking. Jim’s article was published in the Telegraph Journal and on the NBASGA website. Read it HERE.