Nuclear reactor continues to face unexpected problems and missed production targets NB Power is suggesting in new filings with the Energy and Utilities Board the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station may not meet any of its original annual production targets until 2019, seven years after coming back online. NB Power has quietly lowered the amount of electricity it expects to […]
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Premier Gallant’s Commitment to Lower Carbon Economy Must Drive Job Creation (Fredericton, NB) Premier Brian Gallant committed to make a transition to a lower carbon economy with Premiers from across the country in the final declaration from the Québec Summit on Climate Change yesterday. “The Premier has a tremendous opportunity to drive job creation by reducing New Brunswick’s dependence on […]
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked the last day of operation for Efficiency New Brunswick. A short-sighted decision for an agency that should be an engine of economic growth in our province. A study done for the New Brunswick government in 2012 found that the development of our cost-effective energy efficiency resource could create more than 1,300 jobs a year, every year, […]
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Hydraulic Fracturing Commission M. Coon : Ma question, pour le premier ministre, est la suivante : La Nouvelle-Écosse, le Québec et l’État de New York ont tous entrepris une recherche plus approfondie sur la fracturation hydraulique dans l’extraction du gaz de schiste. Pour ce faire, ils ont disposé de ressources importantes, dont : David Wheeler, président de Cape […]
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