Author Archives: NBASGA

No cheque is worth giving a kid cancer

Date: November 3, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Most Asked Questions

Dr. Chris Arsenault’s speech at the Voice of the People Rally at the New Brunswick Legislature on Oct 20th, as published Nov. 3rd by Brunswick News as an Opinion piece:

I’m a family doctor in Fredericton, and I am mad. I’m mad that I’m writing this instead of looking after my patients, because of the threat this government’s plans pose to our health.

We health care providers in New Brunswick are barely keeping our heads above water. Several economic proposals for our province – the Sisson mine, Tantramar gas plant, Lorneville data centre and fracking – will add more sickness to an already overburdened medical system.

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Public survey fails to ask New Brunswickers directly about maintaining the fracking moratorium

Date: October 30, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Moratoria

October 28, 2026

28 October 2026

Letter to the Premier of New Brunswick and the ministers responsible for the natural gas development review from CAPE, NB Lung, NBASGA, Sierra Club and UNB Environmental Law Society

Dear Premier and Ministers:

We, the undersigned organizations, support maintaining New Brunswick’s hydraulic-fracturing moratorium. We also support a transparent, evidence-based public review in which New Brunswickers can express their views through clear questions and balanced information.

We are writing to raise serious concerns about the government survey, Understanding New Brunswickers’ Perspectives on Natural Gas Development,” as available on October 5.

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Sussex public meeting on the shale gas review

Date: October 30, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Fracking & Health, Fracking and Economics, Moratoria

In addition to the poorly designed public survey the government issued earlier this month, which didn’t even ask the simple question of whether the shale gas moratorium should be maintained, and had no controls to discourage multiple submissions, or even ensure  respondents were New Brunswick residents, a ‘not well advertised’ public engagement session in Sussex is scheduled for November 3rd. No one knew about it until it appeared on Facebook. Until now, the public has been essentially excluded from expressing its views or getting questions answered.

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Opinion: We don’t need a review on shale gas

Date: September 25, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: climate change, Fracking & Health, LNG, Moratoria

by Jim Emberger, New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance
Published Telegraph Journal, Sep 24, 2026

Jim Emberger of the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance writes that Susan Holt “has resurrected New Brunswick’s most contentious issue ‘for review,’ offering her constituents no explanation for this betrayal beyond the generic statement that, ‘things have changed.'”

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NBASGA offers comments on Canada’s Major Project Reform Proposals

Date: July 23, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: climate change, Fracking & Health, Fracking and Economics, LNG, Pipelines

Canada’s push to fast‑track “Major Projects” has dismayed many communities that have spent years advocating for environmental protection, public health, and genuine climate action. The New Brunswick Anti‑Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA) — a 13‑year‑old, province‑wide coalition spanning francophone, anglophone, and Indigenous groups — is one of them. While the federal government’s recent A Force of Nature strategy offered a welcome nod toward ecological stewardship, and the Prime Minister’s “elbows‑up” posture on U.S. trade pressures signaled a willingness to defend Canadian interests, those commitments are increasingly difficult to square with Ottawa’s new enthusiasm for accelerating large‑scale industrial development.

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CAPE Urges NB Government to take a hard look at health impacts of Tantramar Gas Plant

Date: July 23, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Fracking & Health, RIGS Gas Plant-Tantramar

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) has formally urged the New Brunswick government to take a hard look at the health and financial risks tied to natural gas power generation — including the proposed plant in Tantramar. In a detailed submission to the Premier, Minister of Health, Minister of the Environment, and Chief Medical Health Officer, CAPE lays out the well‑documented health hazards linked to methane and diesel emissions, pairing those risks with the real healthcare costs already borne by New Brunswickers and Canadians.

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Coalition Files Judicial Review Over EUB’s Process in Approving RIGS Gas Project

Date: July 6, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Landscape impacts, LNG, RIGS Gas Plant-Tantramar, Social License, Water Issues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, July 6, 2026 — TANTRAMAR, N.B.

Application says Board’s decision lacked adequate reasons and denied the Coalition a fair hearing

Gregor MacAskill, representing the Protect the Chignecto Isthmus Coalition (PCIC), has filed an application for judicial review of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board’s approval of the Renewable Integration and Grid Security Project (RIGS).

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A FAILURE OF REGULATORY RESPONSIBILITY

Date: May 28, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: climate change, Landscape impacts, LNG, Press Releases, RIGS Gas Plant-Tantramar, Social License, Water Issues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY MAY 28, 2026 — Tantramar, New Brunswick

The Protect the Chignecto Isthmus Coalition (PCIC) expresses its deep disappointment and outrage following today’s decision by the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) to approve the Renewable Integration and Grid Security (RIGS) project — a 500 MW fossil fuel gas and diesel plant proposed for wetlands in the Tantramar region of the Chignecto Isthmus.

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Opinion: NB Power has failed to make its case for gas plant

Date: February 26, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Clean Energy, climate change, LNG, RIGS Gas Plant-Tantramar

Hearings revealed the province’s grid isn’t at risk, and increases in electricity needs can be supplied through alternatives to fossil fuels

By Jim Emberger, New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance

Telegraph Journal, Feb 25, 2026

The Energy and Utilities Board hearings over the past two weeks on the proposed Tantramar gas/diesel plant, known as the RIGS project, failed to show a need for the project, and exposed the uncertainty about its high costs relative to electricity output.

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NB Power Accused of Non-Transparent, Last-Minute Maneuvering in RIGS Gas Plant Review

Date: February 3, 2026
Author: NBASGA
Categories: Most Asked Questions, RIGS Gas Plant-Tantramar

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tantramar, New Brunswick — Feb 3, 2026
(written by Lisa Griffin)

NB Power is facing mounting criticism over what interveners describe as a non-transparent, last-minute attempt to keep its proposed RIGS gas plant approval afloat — at the expense of fairness, due process, and public accountability.

Just one week before the oral hearing is scheduled to begin on February 9, NB Power filed a package of late evidence at the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board (EUB), introducing a previously undisclosed commercial arrangement — a potential Expansion Tolling Agreement tied to the RIGS project.

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