Information filed with the Energy and Utilities Board shows the utility burned more fossil fuels over the past 12 months than it has in over a decade.
Utility burned nearly 4 million barrels of oil this year as ‘thermal’ generation hits 16-year high
Robert Jones · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 13, 2026 6:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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N.B. Power’s oil-fuelled generating station at Coleson Cove in Saint John burned through $254.1 million worth of heavy fuel oil this year to generate electricity. That pushed its greenhouse gas emission up 60 per cent over last year (Roger Cosman/CBC)
N.B. Power has had a difficult financial year, but evidence presented at its ongoing rate hearing shows it may be posting even worse environmental results.
Updated generation information filed with the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board shows the utility has burned more fossil fuels to generate electricity in the past 12 months than it has in over a decade, almost certainly sending its annual greenhouse gas emissions above the three-million-tonnes threshold.
The increased reliance on burning coal, oil, petroleum coke and natural gas to generate electricity comes despite pledges by N.B.
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