Joan Baxter, The Energy Mix

The long-stalled Sisson tungsten-molybdenum mine in central New Brunswick is back in the spotlight after Prime Minister Mark Carney added it to his second tranche of “nation-building” projects. Critics cite low-grade ore, Indigenous opposition, and U.S. Defense Department funding alongside C$8.2M from Canada, warning taxpayer dollars are fueling weapons, not the energy transition.

“The business case is just extremely poor,” said ecologist and activist Larry Wuest, who has been closely monitoring the potential mining site since 2008, even before Vancouver-based Northcliff Minerals acquired the Sisson property in the Nashwaak River watershed northwest of Fredericton in 2013.

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