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The Coleson Cove Generating Station is a 978 MW Canadian electrical generating station located at 4077 King William Road in the community of Seaview on the extreme western boundary of the city of Saint John New Brunswick.A thermal generating station Coleson Cove is situated on a cove of the same name along the shore of the Bay of Fundy 16 km (9.9 mi) southwest of the mouth of the Saint John River at the city’s central core.The generating station is owned and operated by New Brunswick Power Coleson Cove Corporation (Colesonco) a wholly owned subsidiary of New Brunswick Power Generation Corporation (Genco) which is itself a wholly owned subsidiary of provincial Crown corporation NB Power.Coleson Cove opened in 1976 and was designed to burn #6 fuel oil also known colloquially as bunker C.