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Question Period: Job Losses in Energy Sector – May 14, 2015

May 18, 2015 David Coon

Mr. Coon: NB Power has contracted with a Toronto-based company to deliver its soon-to-be announced home insulation program. Four New Brunswick businesses provided energy evaluation services under the late, great Efficiency NB’s home retrofit program. Energy advisers who have been building careers in the energy efficiency services industry have been laid off across the province. Local energy efficiency businesses have […]

Member’s Statement – The New Energy Economy – May 14, 2015

May 17, 2015 David Coon

Mr. Speaker, day after day we are informed of new cuts to programs, services, and jobs in an effort to bring our fiscal house into order. Day after day members of this house sit here and consider the impact that these cuts will have. Day after day I receive e-mails, phone calls and walk-in visits from constituents looking for jobs […]

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Government Outsourcing Energy Efficiency Jobs

May 14, 2015 David Coon

Government Outsourcing Energy Efficiency Jobs Fredericton – NB Power will begin outsourcing home energy evaluations to a Toronto-based company, under its soon to be announced Home Insulation Program. NB Power took over Efficiency New Brunswick’s mandate on April 1, 2015. It inherited the responsibility to develop an energy efficiency services industry to create jobs in New Brunswick. Instead, its first […]

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Member’s Statement: Demise of Efficiency New Brunswick

April 1, 2015 David Coon

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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