Need more Canadian energy? Atlantic Canada has a plan for that
Episode description
A new nuclear reactor. A natural gas pipeline extension. Thousands of offshore wind turbines. Atlantic provinces have ambitious ideas to generate and transmit more energy across Canada, all under one banner. As Prime Minister Mark Carney renews his call for nation-building projects to strengthen the Canadian economy, will this network of ideas, the Eastern Energy Partnership, make the cut? And how realistic – and expensive – are these plans?
CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick Jacques Poitras speaks to New Brunswick's premier and the federal minister in charge of the Atlantic, Sean Fraser, as well as First Nations leaders, experts and stakeholders about what it could mean for power in eastern Canada for generations to come.
This episode features the voices of:
- John Herron, New Brunswick Minister of Natural Resources
- Joanna Bernard, New Brunswick Regional Chief for the Assembly of First Nations
- Chief Terry Richardson, Pabineau First Nation
- Brad Coady, vice-president of business development for NB Power
- Lori Clark, President and CEO of NB Power
- David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick
- Heidi Leslie, CEO of Crux Energy Consulting
- Scott Urquhart, CEO of Aegir Insights
- Larry Hughes, energy expert at Dalhousie University
- Susan Holt, premier of New Brunswick
- Sean Fraser, minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency