David Coon

David Coon criticizes the province’s handling and transparency of the chemical spill, demanding that the actual test results be made public and calling for clear, accountable disclosure about monitoring, testing and remediation efforts.

Coon calls for a provincial review of the spill response, criticizes the government's slow response and lack of transparency, and urges faster, more transparent action and accountability in pollution incidents, noting emergency measures were effective but delayed.

David Coon supports imposing a sufficiently large exit fee on industrial customers that leave the N.B. Power grid to generate their own electricity, to prevent remaining ratepayers from shouldering the resulting costs; he warns the fee may be set too low.

David Coon criticizes the Lorneville data centre's reliance on natural gas, warning it would likely draw electricity from the Tantramar gas plant and produce 'a lot of greenhouse gas emissions,' and he questions whether intermittent gas backup can meet the centre's demand.

David Coon advocates creating a statutory right to a healthy environment and introduced legislation to that effect. He acknowledges flaws in his bill, agrees it should not pass in its current form, and intends to revise and reintroduce it.

David Coon opposes N.B. Power’s attempt to bypass Energy and Utilities Board review for the proposed gas plant and associated transmission work, calling it an unacceptable evasion of the regulatory process and arguing there are viable alternatives such as large-scale battery storage.