Monthly Archives: October 2025

Has peak lobster already come and gone in the Maritimes?

Posted on October 31, 2025 by brucewark

By: John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter. Source: The Daily Gleaner October 29, 2025 Greg Mercer had never tasted lobster quite like it. As part of the research for his new book, The Lobster Trap, the reporter who grew up … Continue reading →

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AWI says NB Power is wrong: There are pileated woodpeckers on proposed gas plant site

Posted on October 29, 2025 by brucewark

Barry Rothfuss, executive director of the Atlantic Wildlife Institute (AWI), is challenging NB Power’s assertion that there was no evidence of pileated woodpecker activity on the proposed Centre Village site of a big, gas/diesel generating plant when the utility chose … Continue reading →

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N.B., Ontario firms sign $75M deal to improve nuclear plant’s poor record

Posted on October 28, 2025 by brucewark

By: John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter. Source: The Daily Gleaner October 28, 2025 NB Power and a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation have signed a three-year, $75 million deal to improve the performance of the troubled Point Lepreau nuclear … Continue reading →

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Legal-fees battle starts in title claim that will cost millions

Posted on October 26, 2025 by brucewark

By: John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter. Source: The Daily Gleaner October 23, 2025 The judges at New Brunswick’s highest court are wrestling with how to award costs in the first part of a massive and complex litigation that has … Continue reading →

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Why did NB Power choose Centre Village for 500 MW gas/diesel plant?

Posted on October 24, 2025 by brucewark

NB Power has released a document to Warktimes explaining why it chose the site near Centre Village for its proposed 500 MW gas/diesel plant. The two-page “Location Analysis” executive summary says that the utility considered eight sites, but narrowed the list … Continue reading →

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Expert warns against investing $1.4 billion in ‘high-risk’ gas plant

Posted on October 23, 2025 by brucewark

A renewable energy expert, who serves as research director at Corporate Knights magazine, says this is not the time for New Brunswick to be investing more than $1 billion in a big, gas/diesel generating plant on the Chignecto Isthmus. “Why … Continue reading →

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Rally goers take their ‘NO TO GAS PLANT’ message to NB legislature

Posted on October 22, 2025 by brucewark

“This is just the beginning,” said Kyle Sacobie of St. Mary’s First Nation as he spoke Tuesday to about 60 people gathered in the rain outside the New Brunswick legislature for a rally against the proposed gas/diesel plant on the … Continue reading →

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Premier says door still open to comprehensive environmental review of gas plant project near Centre Village

Posted on October 20, 2025 by brucewark

Premier Holt says her government has not ruled out a comprehensive environmental impact assessment of the proposed PROENERGY 500 MW gas/diesel plant on the Chignecto Isthmus. “We have a lot of questions that the provincial government continues to ask of … Continue reading →

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PEI co-op opposing proposal for 2 PROENERGY gas/diesel turbines in Charlottetown

Posted on October 19, 2025 by brucewark

A community-based advocacy co-op on Prince Edward Island is speaking out against plans to install two PROENERGY combustion turbines in Charlottetown at a cost of $334 million. The co-op, Energy Democracy Now, was responding to the privately owned power company … Continue reading →

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Is debt-laden NB Power heading for a bailout?

Posted on October 17, 2025 by brucewark

By: John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter. Source: The Daily Gleaner October 12, 2025 Lost in some of the news about big electricity price hikes in New Brunswick is a severe and growing financial problem. NB Power, the Crown corporation that … Continue reading →

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Opponents of NB Power gas/diesel plant applaud EUB ruling

Posted on October 16, 2025 by brucewark

Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton says she’s relieved that the province’s Energy and Utilities Board has ruled that it does have jurisdiction to review NB Power’s plan to build a 500 MW gas and diesel plant near Centre Village. “I’m certainly … Continue reading →

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