Premier Blaine Higgs said Ottawa giving the plant a special pass will “absolutely be the decision-maker” in whether it will be allowed to add 2.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases to New Brunswick’s emissions.
Higgs said if the federal government recognizes that the plant will reduce emissions globally even while increasing them provincially, “we should be good to go,” citing what he said was a similar exemption given to a liquefied natural gas plant in British Columbia.