N.B. Power’s two-week rate hearing underway in Fredericton is not exactly gripping television, but for the first time, the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board has been streaming the proceeding and posting the daily seven-hour videos on YouTube.
Live viewership rarely exceeds 50 but EUB wants its proceedings to be more accessible
Robert Jones · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 12, 2026 5:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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N.B. Power’s rate hearing in Fredericton is being conducted by a three-person panel of the Energy and Utilities Board led by its chair, Christopher Stewart, centre. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
N.B. Power’s two-week rate hearing underway in Fredericton is not exactly gripping television, but for the first time, the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board has been streaming the proceeding and posting the daily seven-hour videos on YouTube.
Live viewership of the detailed examination of N.B. Power’s request to raise its rates 4.75 per cent rarely exceeds 50 people during the day but the effort is part of a plan by the regulator to make its work more accessible to the public.
The regulator has been dabbling in “webcasting” for the past year in what it calls part of its mandate to “provide transparent and open processes.”
Over the first four days of the hearing,
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