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The Conservation Council recently brought together nine New Brunswickers from varying perspectives to help shape a vision for an affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity system.
We need a modern electricity strategy for this province. We need province-wide hearings, and multiple pathways for citizens to have their say on what happens to NB Power and the kind of electricity system we are willing to pay for.
New Brunswick can build a secure, affordable and sustainable electricity system today without gambling on risky, unproven small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technology.
New Brunswick can build a secure, affordable and sustainable electricity system today without gambling on risky, unproven small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) technology.
The role small modular nuclear reactors should play in New Brunswick’s energy future is the subject of hearings this week at the legislature’s standing committee on climate change and environmental stewardship.
In this webinar, learn how a lack of trust, fairness, and community benefits combined to undermine community acceptance of two wind energy projects proposed for Northern New Brunswick and receive recommendations on how to increase the chances of success for renewable energy projects.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick says that meeting the federal test allows the province’s largest carbon emitters to pollute mostly for free. Consumers, on the other hand, continue to pay for all emissions due to driving.
Would you like to participate in a Citizens’ Assembly to make recommendations to federal and provincial governments and utilities on how to keep electricity affordable and eliminate energy poverty, while eliminating carbon and air pollution from the electricity system?
On the eve of the largest annual global climate conference (COP27), over 70 health and environment organizations are calling on the Government of Canada to acknowledge and act to reduce the logging industry’s significant greenhouse gas emissions.
In a long hoped-for decision, the federal Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) has begun reviewing a formal request from the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB) to subject the small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) proposed by NB Power for Point Lepreau on the Bay of Fundy to a full federal Impact Assessment (IA).
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