PROENERGY ‘s 1.5 km access road from Rte. 940 to proposed gas plant site as it appeared during construction in December 2025
Both the U.S. company PROENERGY and its partner NB Power say construction is not about to begin on the proposed 500 MW gas/diesel plant near Centre Village in spite of rumours circulating in the community that work on the proposed plant would start today.
In an e-mail to Warktimes, Tracey Stephenson of NB Power writes that “a construction start date has not yet been confirmed.”
She promises that NB Power and PROENERGY will inform community members about their plans.
“Local government will be notified in advance of construction beginning,” she writes, adding that PROENERGY “continues to work toward obtaining necessary construction permits and engaging with communities, including First Nations.”
Tantramar Mayor Debbie Wiggins-Colwell received a similar message signed by the RIGS Atlantic project team that she forwarded to Juliette Bulmer of Stop the Tantramar Gas Plant.
RIGS is the name the partners have chosen for the gas plant project.
Their e-mail says that “no construction start date has been set” and that before any “construction activity begins, PROENERGY Canada had previously committed to notify Mayor and Council, municipal leadership and the community directly.”
The e-mail also refers to the project’s Public Notification Strategy that is available on the provincial government’s website.
Meantime, the New York Times published a lengthy article last week under the headline: “Old, Polluting Jet Engines are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers.”
According to the Times, PROENERGY got into the business of repurposing jet engines early and manufactured eight for Elon Musk’s huge xAI data centre in Mississippi.
“But repurposed aircraft turbines tend to be less efficient and more polluting than engines designed for conventional gas-burning plants,” the Times article says, adding: “Environmentalists say that reusing older and less efficient jet engines is a step backward.”
PROENERGY says its PE6000 jet engine generates 50 MW of fast-start power on demand. These are the turbines the company would use at its plant in Tantramar. Photo: PROENERGY
The Times quotes Landon Tessmer, an executive with PROENERGY, as saying its jet engines are exactly the same as those used on Boeing 747 aircraft.
The company plans to install its PE6000 jet engines at its proposed gas plant site in Tantramar.
If you are a retired, wealthy/comfy, manager, doctor, professor or other chattering class clown… you better get rid of your passport, your car, your lawnmower, your chainsaw, your generator, and any other gas powered items to really show us all your dedication to “getting off fossil fuels”…. no more hypocritical jet-setting for you .. leave that to the clown Commander in Chief Mark “net zero” Carney.. the biggest hypocrite in Canada today..
see more here: Carney’s Carbon Footprint on X: “Yesterday, Mark drove his enormous motorcade of SUVs to his enormous private jet. Then, he once again flew to Europe. Mark has spent more days in Europe since becoming Prime Minister (50), than he has spent attending question period in Parliament (36).” / X
Bruce Wark.. why did your delete your X account this year? Why did Megan Mitton and Green Party of New Brunswick delete their X accounts this year?
Unaccountable, unelectable, uninspiring green politics.. no thanks. I would like abundance and less fear-mongering from what I can see Bruce you’ve been a dedicated “fluffer” to Mitton for years here.. well done chump. Why don’t you question the “net zero” propaganda at your website instead of going along with it?
Why don’t you man up and write a proper review of Mark Carney’s book “Values”?
No skin in the game Bruce… that’s why. Pathetic.
Comment from Bruce Wark: I didn’t delete my X account, I just stopped using it. Tried to sign in once and it was giving me a big hassle about passwords etc. and I just gave up. I don’t have much spare time these days to fool around with things like that. Years ago, I was interested in Twitter because of its then, 140 character limit. At first I thought 140 characters was way too short to say much of anything, until I found how effective that editorial limit could be in getting you to think hard about what you wanted to say. I’m also interested in this idea: American presidents who understand and master new media tend to go down in history as successful ones. Abe Lincoln: Telegraph; Teddy Roosevelt: Printed news; FDR: Radio; Kennedy and Reagan: TV; Donald Trump: Twitter and other social media. As for why I don’t review Mark Carney’s book “Values,” I just don’t have time to plough through it. Too damn long. Maybe Carney should have practised on Twitter first focussing on saying exactly what he needed to say. On the other hand, Paris Marx’s recent book, “Hyperscale” (available in Tidewater) is well worth spending time on. Not a wasted word in it.