Regular Meeting of Council - Municipality of Tantramar - February 10, 2026 LIVESTREAM

 At this link:  Regular Meeting of Council - February 10, 2026

More "Gas Plant" stories from Bruce Wark's "The New Wark Times" publisher locally here:

130 scientists & academics call on Premier Holt to suspend proposed 500 MW gas plant |

"Steve Cullen says:

February 9, 2026 at 5:20 pm

Not since the days of living in Toronto, have I seen the likes of a NIMBY (not in my backyard) campaign like the one currently advocating to stop the proposed RIGS generating station. The fact that over a hundred academics and the like have banded together with local groups opposing the facility, ostensibly lends more credibiity to their contentions. Or does it? How about the credibility of those of us who spent their lives ‘boots on the ground’ in the oil and gas industry. Oh yeah, we are given labels as ‘dinosaurs,’ ‘dougs,’ and are in the ‘dark ages,’ because we dont share their views and actually support the project. I would bet the rest of my working days salary that none of them have ever set foot on a pipeline right of way or gas transmisson facility, donned work boots, hardhats, FRC and the like to go to work, stood by during a pig run, researched, wrote and followed up project controls and protocols including environmental procedures for construction, to name a few. Yet, through some odd circumstance and without any real word experience in oil and gas, these folks proclaim far and wide, how bad a project this is, second-guessing the project proponents as well as NB Power. Not sure what they think they are proving, save for publicly proclaiming their lack of knowledge. Perhaps then, they can explain how other provinces and US states have operating hydrocarbon facilities in ecosystems just as sensitive, yet Centre Village is somehow more fragile. As far as the natural gas transmission and delivery are concerned, who cares if it comes from the Montney shale fields, or via the Northern Corridor routing across TC or Enbridge or Tennessee Valley authority pipelines, fracked or not. Like that movie quote from the ’90’s: “show me the money.” Dispense with all the hype, hoopla and fear mongering and present the facts. Prove that all the negative effects of the project will occur, iinstead of spreading around what we should be afraid of. Without fact, it is merely fiction."

Non-profit co-op housing with Sabine Dietz [shown above] discussions and information on her "Freshwinds" Project that will consist of 68 housing units ready for occupancy 2027, or there abouts.

Website here:  Freshwinds Cooperative | [ affordable, sustainable .. naturally ]

Facebook here:  Freshwinds Eco-Village Housing Cooperative | Sackville NB | Facebook

CBC News report on co-op housing here:  Can co-op housing help solve Canada's crisis?

Parks and Rec. worker Matt Pryde - shown above - decided that he needed to work on a project that raised funds for a seat campaign at Tantramar Veterans Ice Arena building and so far has enough money to install about 200 seats - 20 inches wide - at a cost of roughly $300 per seat -- still no discussions on the project that was discussed previously by Town Councillor Bruce Phinney to this ice rink seating endeavour -- that being a new Tantramar Skate Park Project... first brought to Mayor and Councillor's attention back in 2013 when a group of a dozen skateboarding youth presented in the Town Hall.  Only the current Town Councillors Mike Tower and Bruce Phinney would remember those youth presenting.

Mayor and Councillors discussed adding in an elevator to the ice rink building -- better late than never.. since the building was built many years ago they decided that now is a really good time to address this project -- election coming up May 2026 as it happens.