“It’s good news. The last thing we need to do is be sending more money out of the province for services that we can provide inside the province … We need to reduce that economic leakage.”- David Coon Article by: KATRINA CLARKE Photo by: BNI ARCHIVE David Coon is calling the province’s stalled talks with Sodexo “good news,” saying it […]
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“The generation will be distributed so that you’ll have thousands of sources of electricity from a whole variety of renewable resources selling into the system.” – David Coon “To get things greener,” says UNB economist Herb Emery, “we’ve got to get Canadians out of their cars, but that’s very politically unpopular.” Photo by Norm Knight.Under federal pressure, the government of […]
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“The premier misspoke. He’s just wrong. He’s taking the national target for reduction and applying it provincially, but that doesn’t work. It’s an election year and he doesn’t want this to be a big issue in the election.”- David Coon Article by:JACQUES POITRAS Have the Liberals already achieved their targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions? That claim is at the […]
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Article by: The Daily Gleaner New Brunswick taxpayers and political representatives shouldn’t have to resort to court rulings for transparency on public-private partnerships. The recent ruling against opening up provincial nursing home contracts with Shannex Inc. shows a lack of public accountability. Green Party leader David Coon ran into a brick wall when the Court of Queen’s Bench ruled against […]
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