With NB Power’s Coleson Cove Generating Station near Saint John set to sunset in about 15 years, will the provincial Crown corporation switch from burning one kind of fossil fuel to burning another kind?
Earlier this year, NB Power said it was considering converting Coleson Cove from burning bunker C oil to burning fossil gas. But earlier this month, the utility released a plan stating that Coleson Cove’s operations are assumed to end in 2040 or 2041. With the Holt government conducting a review of 12-year moratorium on fracking for shale gas, one has to wonder if a conversion of Coleson Cove to gas is really off the table. Read the commentary by CRED-NB core member Sam Arnold published by the NB Media Co-op, HERE.