The National Energy Board has reported that New Brunswick has hit the national target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30% under 2005 levels by 2030.
However, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick is taking issue with that — with executive director Lois Corbett saying that’s misreporting out of Calgary because New Brunswick actually set a more ambitious goal late last year.
In the report called Transitioning To a Low-Carbon Economy, New Brunswick set a 2030 target of 35-percent below 1990 emissions.
“The error there is that they were comparing a Paris target, or a former target to what Nova Scotia and New Brunswick actually said they would do,” Corbett tells CHSJ News.
“We need to be careful of folks coming down the street trying to sell us liver pills all the time. We need to know how our government is acting to reduce carbon pollution and we know this is a big challenge and everybody’s got to do more.”
The CCNB says yes, our emissions today are about what they would need to be based on the federal target, but that is not New Brunswick’s target.
