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The New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board has approved the Tantramar gas and diesel power plant project. The only hurdles remaining for the 25-year deal with U.S.-based ProEnergy are a provincial environmental impact assessment and a Mi’kmaq Rights Impact Assessment process.
Environmental and Mi’kmaw assessments still going on for 500-megawatt gas and diesel plant
Erica Butler · CBC News
· Posted: May 28, 2026 2:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago
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The Brotman Generating Station in Rosharon, Texas, has similar components and layout as the proposed project that ProEnergy will build in Tantramar. (ProEnergy)
A 500-megawatt gas and diesel power plant project is one step closer to being built in rural Tantramar.
In an online session Thursday afternoon, the Energy and Utilities Board delivered its decision approving N.B. Power’s 25-year contract with U.S.-based ProEnergy to install and run 10 gas and diesel turbines at a rural site near Centre Village.
Before delivering final approval on the project, board chair Christopher Stewart took a moment to scold N.B. Power for not following its own investment governance framework and providing inadequate information to the board.
“But for the fact that the board was able to satisfy itself based on the evidence that it had before it,” said Stewart,
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