No to Fast Reacting Fossil Fuel Power Plant pollution - we have clean energy options

February 09, 2026

Public Comment on NS Project Environmental Assessment:
Re: Fast Reacting Fossil Fuel Gas power plants 
- comment to both [1] Saltspring, NS and [2] Marshdale, NS

[1] NO to new fossil fuel power plants –there should be no approval to using combustion carbon fossil fuel technology due to the fossil fuel combustion air pollution and increased carbon accumulative impacts over the proposed 30 years – we need change and we have a clean tech option

[2 NO to the location and concept model - while fast reacting power plants on demand are needed for grid balance the should be decentralized and distributed along the grid and clean technologies that do no release air pollution or carbon emissions

[3] Agriculture and local food security relies on rural lands air and water --so it is not the place to construct brand new fossil fuel combustion power plants to release small Particulate matter pollution.
[4] Current Federal and Provincial laws set a path to mitigate carbon emissions and shift to clean energy supply – so with real options  -  an approval would not comply with the mandate of our laws.

===What we need to do ===

More Wind and more solar and more grid scale batteries distributed along the grid.....plus now is the time to deploy Canadian made fast reacting Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cells ...clean power to meet demand supply and balance the power grid.

TO BE CLEAR -- NO to the fossil fuel GAS Plants -- based on the impacts of pollution and carbon release.

So…PLEASE deny the project the Environment Assessment --- and Please CONSIDER the options and opportunity to deploy fast reacting clean tech power plants that do not pollute and align with Canadian laws and pollution goals to protect our environment and health and our economy as discussed here:

=== the Options ===-

..NOTE those loyal to Texan oil cartel empire plan a gas plant is in NB.....and now NS – half regulator and grid system controller and half independent energy system operator association non profit ?????? ---huh???  --NS IESO --is ‘’now ‘’ acting as proponent and back room deal speed and wants to get approval for same fast reacting fossil fuel carbon pollution power plants here in Saltsprings and Marshdale- both in Pictou County NS……and then sell it to a private operator????,,,using our tax dollars to do so???---- an oil cartel loyal game play that is as it appears.....up to 300MW plant in each place......after oil loyal NSPOWER failing to procure cheaper wind power for over a decade since Comfit era . ...developers plans shelved back then…until the Hydrogen hype from water to ship to EU markets...now we be gettin wind built...but Houston and the oil cartel still want to sell oil and gas and monetize known reserves and pollute us all …so.....SHAME on the DELAY and ongoing air pollution our youth and natural world must endure...and they want to approve more pollution????..for the oil cartel loyal – say NO.

---so...not sure if NS Assembly of Chiefs and KMKNO team or Pictou Landing team have been consulted at all...

---the NS Assembly of Chiefs should say No to these proposed Pictou County NS gas combustion power plants --but then advocate for a clean technology option ---an option for 'standby on demand fast reacting power supply" --- which is what the provincial energy strategy says is needed to meet supply demand as we shift to mostly Wind and Solar as well as Storage Batteries....

--the option which is correct - was discussed in NS Energy Strategy itself are -- Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cells a zero carbon fast reacting standby power plant... ...so why now Oil Cartel multi-generator gas plants and one other project planned in NB too!!.....more lies and delays as they cling to drilling and monetizing oil and gas reserves and all of it controlled by the OIL CARTEL...

---so instead of Gas plants -- the Assembly could demand NS buy Canadian clean tech like the Germans are doing--- our World Leader - the Germans and EU and others buy Canadian - Ballard Power Systems of BC - Hydrogen Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells -- stationary power plants for Grid or Building scale or for buses trains etc----no combustion, .no spark no carbon....instead Hydrogen Gas is pulled through a membrane to join with oxygen which forms pure clean water vapour while the Fuel Cell produces an ''electrochemical current' -- a clean source of electricity ..on demand....much more Fast reacting...zero pollution…clean electricity.

NS is building Wind....with proposed Hydrogen Production Plants....but that 'electrolyser tech is expensive.....there is a better more economical process to produce the greenest hydrogen gas ....clean hydrogen from pollution....like Waste we now landfill... or industrial effluents or even emissions,

--NS has 18 municipal owned Landfills plus others by industry....be it noted that the Germans and EU are now recently contracting ''other Canadian CleanTech" to process industrial society Waste instead of landfilling which will  restructure elements of waste and produce useful products for circular industrial supply chains, such as Hydrogen Gas -- that tech is an Electric powered Plasma Torch Thermal Processing Waste Restructuring Plant -- the waste gets zapped to gaseous state where base elements separate and can be recovered and restructured to useful materials --Hydrogen Gas, and solid Carbon material, and some metals are streamed off, and the rest is cooled to an inert slag rock for aggregates markets - inert meaning you can use it is a fish tank and the rock will not leachate elements to the water Aggregates and metals and carbon all have markets....and the Hydrogen Gas is for Ballard Power Fuel Cells – the developed clean tech to supply Fast Reacting on demand power plant to meet Grid supply demand.

---win win win--- problem solving option --- no fossil fuel gas plant not needed since we have Hydrogen Fuel Cells  ----no need to frack NS or extract oil globally any longer than needed ----no landfilling waste and releases of other pollution since we can process it to restructured recovered resources .and for energy supply too...PLUS it is paid for by selling Hydrogen Gas and products from waste as well as the cost of current waste and pollution disposal and mitigation…towards zero pollution release.—the economic cost of not pollution - versus the infinite increasing cost of pollution – we need closed loop industrial processes, circular industrial supply  and decarbonized energy – not new fossil fuel gas plants approved for 30 years.

---Hydrogen Fuel Cells are scaled and distributed along the Grid – since industrial waste can be processed at  a landfill  that  means more landfilling  - so put the Fuel Cells at the 18 Landfills -Plasma Torch Waste Restructuring Plant  then  pipes Hydrogen Gas to the tank...and the Fast Reacting Fuel Cells can ramp to full power in mere seconds or off again at strategic locations along the Grid.....close to where the grid needs to meet demand.....the German Grid model …and now they also plan to process the methane at landfills and the new solid waste to stop landfilling to make Hydrogen Gas for their power Grid supply demand and for ev fuel cell motive power for buses and Trains....Mercedes Citaro Buses started selling test pilot buses to global transit fleets in 1999 and they and Ford were both Major shareholders in Ballard Power Systems of Canada --- buy Canadian…

----so since NS and others are problem stretching gas ---- they need regulatory direction to a modern more harmonious with nature pollution solving option and a strong NO on a new Gas plant project.

--the Oil loyal drillheads on the gravy train dont give up

---so... I hope the Chiefs of NS look at partnerships and opportunities to invest in our future and can move forward problem solving clean tech progress for a harmonious more civilized power supply ----and bring us out of the Premier Houston dark ages of barbaric polluting oil cartel gas plants.

--- Take note on Fuel Cells and hydrogen -- the US granted $94 million last year to Ballard Power Systems to attract a new giga-factory for fuel cells production in Rockwell Texas… but now that is delayed by policy changes of the current administration-- drill drill drillheads...and delays by lies

--- so say NO to any  approval for30 years of fossil fuel combustion emissions ‘’air pollution and carbon impacts” at both proposed gas plants in NS [and one in NB], based on the health and climate impacts.

--- and say No to Nuke Plants in Ontario – instead wake up and talk Ballard into building the NEW Fuel Cells in Canada -- a new giga factory global export plant in Ontario and expanded BC facility And then order 1200MW plus for Ontario Fuel Cells and shutter the 1200 MW of planned GE Hitachi Small Nukes planned to be built in one central plant place …no – deploy our Fuel Cells – and drive economy of scale for sales of Fuel Cells to EU and global markets == stationary and motive energy supply

---then for NS --order 600 MW of Fuel Cells for NS....and distribute them to all 18 landfills ...and stop landfilling and use Plasma tech to make the Hydrogen gas on site... Fast Reacting Hydrogen PEM Fuel Cells.....the same ones the EU and Germans and others are integrating for clean power...

--wake NS ECC and federal IAAC ....this gas plant plan is a new delay by the oil cartel....they love to pollute our families and any approval does not align with our carbon and pollution goals

--say NO to gas plants and I and others hope the CHIEFS say No too.

--stop polluting us all and our Earth.

--oh and how does the carbon emissions get captured at these new state of the art small multgenerator fast power plants....or do they plant to capture any carbon emissions??

--  Please Note - Plasma Torch Process is a cheaper way for Pathway Alliance to do the Carbon capture MPO project which is also a source of waste to hydrogen gas supply –So.. we need to partner and to fund and support the deployment of Plasma Torch Thermal  ‘’emissions’’ Processing systems at the target Carbon Capture project oil processing facilities, for Alberta and for other facilities for Methane emissions reductions elsewhere. Note - if the oil industry uses steam reformation to process the captured hydrocarbon emissions now pressure vented and flared during oil and gas processing ....they then need to store the CO2 formed while getting the hydrogen gas to sell…which is a major cost for storing CO2 and a pipeline --.HOWEVER -- if they use the patented Hydrocarbon emissions Plasma Torch process developed and patented by Pryrogenesis of Canada who is stepping out as the world leader - then that plasma process produces hydrogen gas and also solid carbon material is recovered for markets.....meaning there is no CO2 produced that needs stored and delivered to a major underground storage system via a major CO2 pipeline....

--NOTE – and those oilsands tailings can all be processed via closed loop clean tech – and including plasma processes  --solids – emissions –effluents-.

===Canada has an opportunity here ====
--mass production scale factory of Ballard Fuel Cells  new plant in Ontario.....and for the long waiting viable clean hydrogen supply --support mass production- and deployment-- selling globally -- and buying our own Canadian Clean tech HERE in NS and NB for fast reacting fuel cells …not Fossil fuel turbines and pollution impacts or the Nuke Plants in Ontario.

---then we take manhatten ...then berlin. - oh right .the Germans already plan to use our plasma tech to make hydrogen from industrial waste...so.. deploy our solutions to pollution

--say no to gas plants...and yes to progress...fuel cells and plasma tech processes are ready....stop pollution releases-solids - emissions - effluents-selling restructured waste to useful products such as hydrogen gas for Fuel Cells—we invest in closed loop industrial processes – circular industrial supply waste to resources – we mine our pollution for resources – and stop releases of pollution
--change can require regulatory motivation to lead investment

===Pollution – carbon imbalance – Climate impacts-- habitat losses to industry – Biodiversity loss==
==Canadian legal mandates to protect a healthy environment and meet climate goals===

===say NO to approvals for fossil fuel gas plants based on the 30 years accumulative pollution impacts – ===we have Options - clean tech solutions to pollution…we mine our pollution for Hydrogen and elemental resources towards zero pollution releases

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Submitted Feb 9,2026 – Doug Neil