New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says concerns about gas stations closing are valid, following the Liberal government’s decision to remove carbon adjuster costs from the price of fuel.
The legislation, tabled Wednesday, is meant to save drivers about four cents a litre at the pump.
Interim Progressive Conservative leader Glen Savoie says retailers will have to make up that difference, adding that many won’t be able to.
“It is going to cause some of these retailers to take that infrastructure out, and say ‘my business can no longer handle the loss, I’m going to take offering fuel services away,’” says Savoie. “I think about what that is going to mean for our communities.”
Holt says she “absolutely” shares the same concerns.
“In some cases, some of those small local retailers are in rural communities and they’re the only gas station around for quite a distance,” says Holt. “So losing some of that infrastructure in rural communities is a concern. That’s why …