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About 170 Tantramar-area residents gathered Wednesday to hear from N.B. Power vice-president Brad Coady and express their opposition to the construction of a new 500-megawatt gas plant on the Chignecto Isthmus.
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Erica Butler · CBC News
· Posted: Jan 15, 2026 4:41 PM EST | Last Updated: 43 minutes ago
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Brad Coady, N.B. Power vice-president of business development, answers a question as volunteer organizer Doug Bliss looks on during Wednesday’s public meeting in Sackville. (Erica Butler/CBC)
A new 500-megawatt gas plant in rural Tantramar could get built with or without “social licence” from area residents, according to a senior official with N.B. Power.
Brad Coady told a room of about 170 people gathered on Wednesday in Sackville he could not “maintain energy security” if the project were to move to a different location.
And without the project, Coady said, the province could face rolling blackouts in the event of especially high peak power events. The vice-president of business development said only a rejection of the project by the Energy and Utilities board,
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