E-7553 Hyperscale AI Data Centre Environmental Impact Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7553 — Hyperscale AI Data Centre Environmental Impact — with 1,411 signatures and counting. Sponsored by John Williamson. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7553
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: November 7, 2026
- Sponsor: John Williamson (Saint John—St. Croix)
- Category: Environment
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 1,411
- Daily increase: +6 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +45 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~6 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: July 10, 2026 — 218 data points recorded
Milestones
- 1,000 signatures reached on July 22, 2026 — total at that point: 1,004
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on July 15, 2026 — total at that point: 531
Provincial Distribution
- New Brunswick: 757 signatures
- Ontario: 218 signatures
- Alberta: 181 signatures
- British Columbia: 113 signatures
- Quebec: 49 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 37 signatures
- Manitoba: 19 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 15 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 6 signatures
- Prince Edward Island: 2 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 1 signatures
- Nunavut: 1 signatures
- Yukon: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| July 10, 2026 | 6 |
| July 13, 2026 | 379 |
| July 17, 2026 | 770 |
| July 20, 2026 | 919 |
| July 23, 2026 | 1,067 |
| July 26, 2026 | 1,120 |
| July 29, 2026 | 1,181 |
| August 3, 2026 | 1,225 |
| August 7, 2026 | 1,256 |
| August 11, 2026 | 1,293 |
| August 14, 2026 | 1,344 |
| August 18, 2026 | 1,380 |
| August 24, 2026 | 1,410 |
| August 24, 2026 | 1,411 |
Petition Text
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:
• The Government of Canada has actively promoted hyperscale AI data centre development through its national AI strategy without establishing corresponding federal protections for the communities, ecosystems, and public utilities that bear the costs;
• A proposed 390-megawatt hyperscale AI data centre in Lorneville, New Brunswick, powered in part by a natural gas plant operated by U.S.-based VoltaGrid LLC, would become one of the province's top three industrial greenhouse gas emitters, directly undermining Canada's commitments under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act;
• The project would draw 200 megawatts from NB Power, a publicly owned utility, raising federal concerns about energy security, affordability, and the socialization of costs onto ordinary ratepayers to subsidize a private foreign corporation; and
• No federal regulatory framework exists to evaluate the cumulative environmental, energy, or social impacts of hyperscale data centre development, and consultations on the federal AI strategy have excluded affected municipalities and communities.
We, the undersigned, people of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to:
1. Apply the Impact Assessment Act to hyperscale data centres exceeding 100,000 tonnes of annual CO2 emissions or drawing more than 100 megawatts from a public grid;
2. Direct the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to assess federal habitat protection obligations triggered by the Lorneville project; and
3. Require that the federal AI strategy include binding community and environmental protection standards before any further federal support is directed toward hyperscale data centre development.
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