Climate change in New Brunswick will cost each of us in the province from $730 up to more than 18 hundred dollars by 2050. That prediction is one of many contained in a new provincial government report.
It is forecasting longer and warmer summers and a shorter winter season but with the likelihood of ice jam flooding in rivers increasing. The sea level in the province is forecast to rise 14 centimetres by about 2030 with more coastal flooding. The report warns New Brunswick will have the highest annual per capita cost for damage to homes from coastal flooding in the Atlantic provinces, five times higher than the Canadian average.
The report also predicts increased storm surges, warmer weather in winter and summer, an increase in total precipitation, larger fluctuations in river runoff along with more extreme weather.
As of 2011, total greenhouse gas emissions from homes and businesses in the province were 300 thousand tons lower than in 1990. Under the province’s climate change plan, NB Power is required to supply renewable forms of energy at a minimum of 40 per cent of in province sales.
