Green Party Leader David Coon, whose Fredericton riding includes the Vanier Highway where a large chemical spill occurred last week, says the province needs to be more transparent about events like this.
Province has not provided any interviews to CBC News since spill was detected last week
Sam Farley · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 09, 2026 7:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Officials set up a car wash for vehicles that drove through the yellow spill on the Vanier Highway in Fredericton last week. (Ian Curran/CBC)
Green Party Leader David Coon, whose Fredericton riding includes the Vanier Highway where a large chemical spill occurred last week, is calling for a provincial review.
Coon says the province should have acted faster and needs to be more transparent about events like this.
He called the whole process “very slow” from when the spill was discovered to when emergency measures were activated.
Residents have told CBC News that the spill was first observed late on Wednesday, but the province didn’t announce it until Friday morning, when it was being cleaned up, and didn’t publicly share details about what the chemical was until 9 p.m.
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