Courtesy Codiac Regional Policing Authority
A presentation made to Moncton City Council suggests that a new RCMP facility won’t open until 2024, rather than the expected 2023 opening.
The original schedule planned for a construction tender to be issued this spring, with ground being broke by July. However, with designs and documents only being finished recently, Elaine Aucoin, Director of Environmental Planning and Management, says starting by the summer is not realistic, “we feel that we don’t have sufficient time to do a proper tender and start construction this summer.”
Instead, a new timeline will see a call for tender occur in November, with the contract awarded in January 2022 and the start of construction in the following spring.
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The City of Moncton is putting together a climate action working group and seeks community volunteers with expertise or interest in environment-related matters.
Elaine Aucoin, Moncton director of environmental planning and management, says the group will strive toward an ultimate goal.
“We know that we have to adopt a more stringent greenhouse gas emissions target which we will be presenting to City Council soon,” noted Aucoin.
The deadline to apply is January 21 and more information can be found on
A time commitment of between two and eight hours monthly can be expected.
Once members are selected, Aucoin said a meeting will be held about once a month starting in February.
HALIFAX With many municipalities in New Brunswick pushing for a provincial ban on plastic bags since 2019, the province still hasn’t said if it plans to enact a ban ahead of the federal government’s plan at the end of the year. So far, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia have enacted a plastic bag ban. In New Brunswick, some communities have made the jump themselves, including Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview, which enacted their own plastic bag ban on Oct. 1, 2020. “I know that P.E.I. had done a provincial ban already and we felt that it was really the time to act,” said Moncton Environmental Planning and Management Director Elaine Aucoin.