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

Date: October 30, 2026

Author: NBASGA

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.

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.

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.'”

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.

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.

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.

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.

NBASGA submission to the EUB Hearings on the Tantramar gas/diesel generating plant

Date: January 21, 2026

Author: NBASGA

Categories: LNG

In early February 2026 the NB Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) will hold hearings on the proposed Tantramar gas/diesel generating plant, formally known at the ‘Renewables Integration and Grid Security Project’ (RIGS). These hearings are separate from the Environmental Impact Assessment, and are essentially restricted to issues concerning the risks to ratepayers and taxpayers on costs, reliability of supply, and the prudence of the project in meeting the stated need for it.

New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance / anti-gaz de schiste du N.-B

Representing New Brunswickers concerned about our future / Représentant les Néo-Brunswickois(es) préoccupés par notre avenir

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

Sussex public meeting on the shale gas review

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

NBASGA offers comments on Canada’s Major Project Reform Proposals

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

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

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

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

NBASGA submission to the EUB Hearings on the Tantramar gas/diesel generating plant

Representing New Brunswickers concerned about our future / Représentant les Néo-Brunswickois(es) préoccupés par notre avenir

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

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