Context
The New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance is a coalition of Anglophone and francophone groups from across the province that has since 2010 pursued two mandates – promoting the transition to a clean energy economy, and stopping the development of unconventional fossil fuels in New Brunswick.
We have done so via public education, formal testimony to government, legal actions, and media advocacy, all based on a foundation of scientific, public health, and economic facts and research. We certainly consider ourselves major stakeholders in the Energy Transition.
The context surrounding all of our comments is the rapidly increasing harms brought by climate change – the underlying reason for this energy transition.