FREDERICTON – The Dalhousie thermal generation station in northern New Brunswick will be permanently shut down.
NB Power president Gaetan Thomas says the Crown company conducted a two-year review of the station that concluded the plant is no longer economically viable.
Acting Energy Minister Craig Leonard says the provincial government examined all options in an effort to keep the facility running.
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But Leonard says the government determined that it wouldn’t be in the best interests of the public and the business sector to keep the plant open.
NB Power says a full environmental impact assessment will be conducted before it begins to decommission the site.
The company says it is expected that the decommissioning would take about four years.
NB Power says the 25 workers at the plant will continue to work during the decommissioning.
The station began generating electricity in 1969 and has a capacity of 300 megawatts.
Note to readers: This is a corrected version. A previous story said the power plant employs about 80 people.
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