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Carbon pricing revenue is not being spent to help citizens lower their energy use, make their homes more comfortable and energy efficient, or adapt to a world increasingly moving toward decarbonization.
Why do we still lack commitments, plans and pathways from our governments and utilities to set us on a clear pathway to affordable, reliable, environmentally-sustainable energy with cleaner electricity? What is getting in the way? It turns out, it’s a political choice. Governments’ laws, regulations and policies are not keeping pace with technology change or the need to protect our most vulnerable.
New Brunswick has a history of wild-card investments that fail to deliver. Why not hedge our bets and accelerate investment in what the CCIC calls “safe bets” — delivering cost-effective greenhouse gas reductions through investments that emphasize energy efficiency, switching to clean, affordable renewable energy, and shifting to electric vehicles?
Our recommendations to reduce carbon pollution and better prepare businesses and households for the rising cost of carbon in a world shifting to clean energy.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick welcomes today’s provincial progress report on climate action and calls for an immediate update and deepening of greenhouse gas reduction targets to reflect the latest climate science and federal climate proposals.
Use our letter-writing tool to tell Premier Higgs and Minister Holland you want an affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity system in New Brunswick.
NB Power’s new plan for the future of the province’s electricity system fails to deliver the affordable, reliable and renewable electricity system that New Brunswickers want and need in the fact of increasingly severe climate change.
Today, new wind and solar projects are the cheapest forms of electricity on Earth. Five times cheaper than coal, five times cheaper than nuclear energy, and three times cheaper than natural gas.
An Atlantic Electricity Vision for an affordable, reliable, sustainable future Read More »
Efficiency Canada’s national ranking of provincial energy efficiency policies shows that New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Government under Premier Blaine Higgs is once again failing to help low income New Brunswickers such as seniors and single-family households live more comfortably and save on energy costs at home. Released today, the report (2020 Canadian Provincial Energy Efficiency
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If the Department of Education is setting up a ‘Centre of Excellence for Energy,’ students and teachers would be best served learning about renewable energy and technology to help the switch to a low-carbon economy, rather than the energy of yesteryear like oil, gas and coal. That was our Executive Director Lois Corbett’s message to
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