• Summerside won't have battery storage for its solar power this winter after Sunbank fire

  Source: Prince Edward Island - Regional News
  Date: 2026-10-30 19:32:11.0
  Tags: [Prince Edward Island, Municipal, Energy, Infrastructure, Environment]

  Following a battery fire at the Sunbank solar farm in September that burned for two weeks, the City of Summerside will enter the winter season lacking 5 megawatts of dispatchable battery storage capacity. Summerside Electric, which generates roughly 60 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, has secured a conditional firm service agreement with Maritime Electric to help bridge the energy gap, alongside utilizing its 15-megawatt standby generation facility. The city faces ongoing provincial energy challenges tied to mainland transmission infrastructure and submarine cables, prompting long-term considerations for energy independence and grid resiliency.

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• ‘Just not acceptable’: Backlash grows over Nova Scotia AI data centre project

  Source: Nova Scotia - Halifax & Regional News
  Date: 2026-10-19 20:13:17.0
  Tags: [Nova Scotia, Municipal, Energy, Infrastructure, Technology, Environment]

  Energy and infrastructure company EverWind announced a $10 billion private investment to build a large-scale data centre campus at its existing Point Tupper site near Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, with AI firm Anthropic signed on as a long-term tenant. The project is planned to begin with an initial 95-megawatt phase in late 2027, scaling up to a full development capacity of 420 megawatts by 2028, and includes a $2 billion investment to advance EverWind's onshore wind energy projects. Opposition parties and community advocates are pushing back, demanding an emergency sitting of the Nova Scotia Legislature due to concerns over public consultation, grid reliability, electricity rates, and water resource impacts.

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• Le BAPE publie son rapport sur le projet de réfection du mur de soutènement en amont du barrage Simon ‑ Sicard à Montréal

  Source: Quebec - Fil de presse gouvernemental
  Date: 2026-10-14 11:54:00.0
  Tags: [Quebec, Municipal, Infrastructure, Energy, Environment]

  The Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE) has published its investigation and public hearing report regarding the Phase 2 retaining wall reconstruction project upstream of the Simon-Sicard dam in Montreal, proposed by Hydro-Québec. The report details the environmental review process and public consultations conducted for the infrastructure rehabilitation project on the territory of the City of Montreal. The publication marks a key regulatory milestone in the assessment of the dam safety and structural repair initiative.

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• 2nd potential AI data centre worries Saint John residents: ‘We have questions’

  Source: New Brunswick - Regional News
  Date: 2026-10-05 20:52:15.0
  Tags: [New Brunswick, Municipal, Energy, Technology, Environment, Infrastructure]

  Residents in Saint John, New Brunswick, represented by the advocacy group Save Lorneville, are raising concerns over a second proposed large-scale artificial intelligence data centre following the revelation of plans by U.S.-based Cross River Infrastructure Partners. The proposed project has initially requested 50 megawatts of network-firm power through correspondence with Opportunities New Brunswick, adding to ongoing public scrutiny over an already proposed 390-megawatt data centre and gas plant at the Spruce Lake Industrial Park by VoltaGrid and Beacon Data Centers. Local advocates and residents have cited a lack of updated regulatory frameworks, unknown impacts on municipal water and electrical grid capacity, and potential risks to greenhouse gas emissions and public health.

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• 'AI is here to stay': Cherry-picking Glubish tells concerned Grande Prairie crowd to call their MLAs about data centres

  Source: Alberta - Edmonton Journal (Legislature & Capital)
  Date: 2026-09-17 15:32:29.0
  Tags: [Alberta, Technology, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Municipal]

  Approximately 300 residents attended a contentious Sept. 11 town hall in Grande Prairie regarding the proposed 65-square-kilometre Wonder Valley AI data centre project backed by Kevin O'Leary. Alberta's Minister of Technology and Innovation, Nate Glubish, defended the initiative by stating artificial intelligence is here to stay and pointing to a closed cooling system meant to mitigate water use from the Smoky River. However, local participants and critics, including resident Casey Klein and SAIT research scientist Dr. Robert Davies, raised concerns that the facility—which holds interim and preliminary municipal licences to draw up to 6 million and 24 million cubic metres of water annually—would impose cumulative environmental impacts through thermal energy emissions, low-frequency fan noise, and heavy resource exploitation within the Municipal District of Greenview and the Peace Country Region.

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• Conditions have improved, but fire still not out at Summerside solar farm, says city's CAO

  Source: Prince Edward Island - Regional News
  Date: 2026-09-09 09:35:25.0
  Tags: [Prince Edward Island, Municipal, Energy, Emergency, Environment, Infrastructure]

  A prolonged fire at the City of Summerside's Sunbank solar farm battery bank, which began on Monday, September 7, 2026, continues to burn under monitoring by Summerside Fire Services and Summerside Police Services using drone thermal imaging. While conditions and wind directions have improved, allowing the city to avoid a mandatory shelter-in-place order, a voluntary shelter-in-place order remains in effect for the immediate area. Local schools and Credit Union Place remain closed as third-party firms conduct air quality sampling and officials analyze drinking water and runoff samples.

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