Tag: Tantramar Gas Power Plant

Local residents oppose NB Power’s proposed gas plant

CRED-NB Champion Juliette Bulmer and her colleagues Terry Jones and Kristen LeBlanc live near NB Power’s proposed gas plant. They organized a community meeting in August in Midgic, the community just south of the proposed site.

About 80 people from local communities and the wider region, including Moncton, showed up on the hot August evening in the Midgic Church basement to hear about the project.

By the following evening, a new Facebook group “Stop the Tantramar Gas Plant Facebook group” had more than 200 members.

Read the story in the NB Media Co-op, HERE.

Proposed Centre Village fossil (natural) gas plant – comments posted

Opposition is building to NB Power’s proposal for a fossil gas plant with diesel storage backup north of Sackville. The utility will sign a long-term power purchase agreement with a U.S. company, PROENERGY, that will build and operate the plant. Stories by Bruce Wark (New Wark Times) about the project are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) was accepting comments on the project description until earlier this week. They are posted on the project registry. 271 comments were submitted (!!) indicating a very high public interest in this project.

The comment submitted to the IAAC by CRED-NB is HERE.

Comments submitted to the IAAC by CRED-NB core members:

Tom McLean – comment is HERE

Sam Arnold, Sustainable Energy Group – comment is HERE

Susan O’Donnell, CEDAR project at STU – comment is HERE

Comments submitted to the IAAC by CRED-NB Champions include:

New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA) – comment is HERE

If you are a CRED-NB Champion and would like us to link to your comment on this blog post, send us an email and your comment number on the IAAC registry.

Get involved – the impact assessment for the proposed fossil gas plant

New Brunswick is proposing to build a new fossil gas plant, which has a lovely but deceptive project name: “Centre Village Renewables Integration and Grid Security Project.” Sounds great right? Don’t be fooled: fossil gas is not needed for grid security or to support variable renewable energy. The plan is to put this plant on Route 940 north of Sackville, near Midgic and Centre Village. Local MLA Megan Mitton has strongly objected to the proposed development.

New Brunswick doesn’t need it. Many storage options exist and new ones are developing rapidly – to provide grid security and pair with wind and solar energy without adding more GHGs to the atmosphere when operating. (Read CRED-NB core member Tom McLean’s article on storage HERE.)

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) posted the notice that comments are open on the initial fossil gas project description summary, HERE. The deadline for your comments is August 13. We encourage everyone to put in a comment – even a simple email will help. CRED-NB will submit a comment.

The IAAC will hold two Public Open Houses

Tuesday, August 12, 2025, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Sackville Music Barn
18 Station Rd.
Tantramar, NB

and

Wednesday, August 13, 2025, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre
182 Main St.
Tantramar, NB

Comments can also be provided during Public Open Houses. IAAC will include all comments in their Public Consultation Report.

If you want to stay informed of the latest updates, we encourage you to sign up for the newsletter of CRED-NB member NBASGA – the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance who are active on this file. Website HERE.