Tantramar residents say the wildfires and extreme heat this week only heightened their concerns about how a natural gas plant N.B. Power wants to build in the area would affect their health.
Residents and others shared their concerns at an open house about the gas plant, held in Sackville by ProEnergy, the Missouri-based company that would build the plant.
N.B. Power has chosen a 20-hectare site in Centre Village, along Route 940, for the proposed plant, which would be built by ProEnergy and is projected to be up and running in 2028.
Terry Jones, who lives just 1.4 kilometres from the site, was one of about 170 people at the open house, where ProEnergy invited people to ask questions and voice concerns.
This week, Missouri-based ProEnergy hosted two open houses on the natural gas plant it would build for N.B. Power in Tantramar. (Hope Edmond/CBC News)
Jones said she is the site’s nearest neighbour and will be the “first person to feel the effects of water runoff, of air pollution, noise pollution, light pollution.”
“We need to get away from fossil fuels, look at renewable energy and start looking to the future.”
Jones has a private well and worries it will be affected by the new plant.
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