A couple hundred protesters brandished signs and chanted “shame” as Premier Susan Holt walked toward the doors of the legislature to deliver her third throne speech.
One protester walked beside Holt holding a sign that read “Clean Air and Water Are Our Rights.”
The crowd gathered to voice opposition to an artificial intelligence data centre proposal in Saint John, a natural gas power plant in rural Tantramar and the government’s decision to review the moratorium on fracking.
“Don’t go there,” Judy McKie, one of the people there to protest the fracking review, said.
“We’re not going to react any different than we did back then.”
Judy McKie says she’s just as worried by the prospect of fracking today as she was 12 years ago when the moratorium was put in place. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
Just three years ago, Holt seemed to echo the opinion of those same protestors. During a speech in the legislature, she referred to shale gas as “yesterday’s energy solution.”
“New Brunswickers have made it clear, they made it clear that they do not want to take on the risk of hydraulic fracturing,” she said at the time.
So what changed?
If you ask the premier, it was the arrival of the second Donald Trump term and slowing provincial revenues.
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