More projects to restore critical coastal and marine habitat and increased protections for vulnerable wildlife like the endangered North Atlantic right whale are part of what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dubs the Oceans Protection Plan 2.0.
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From Baie des Chaleurs to Cap Tourmentin, there are no shortage of local efforts to grow the coastal economy while protecting our critical marine environment. By supporting more projects like these, we will be more resilient in the face of world pandemics and environmental crises down the road. At the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in
The Conservation Council’s Marine Conservation Program issued the following statement with respect to the release of today’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): “This report is a scientific call to action that we must act urgently to drastically reduce the carbon pollution
After almost four years of consultation and parliamentary process, environmental protections for fish and their habitat have finally been restored as a requirement under the law. Bill C-68 reached the last milestone with Senate’s approval on June 18.
The Banc-des-Américains (American Bank) Marine Protected Area (MPA) received final approval on March 6, 2019 and is now the largest offshore protected area in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (GSL). The final boundaries are shown below and encompass an area of one thousand square kilometres (1,000 km2). Protection objectives for the area are to promote
In this edition of EcoNews, we bring you an informative commentary from our friend Jim Emberger about the oil and gas industry’s penchant for over-promising, under-delivering, and racking up loads of debt (and environmental messes) in the process; we bring you a breakdown of a new forestry model proposed for Nova Scotia that would see
Today is World Environment Day. Established by the United Nations in 1974, this year’s theme is #BeatPlasticPollution, an important environmental challenge for communities in New Brunswick and across the planet. We have a plastic problem in Canada. In our country alone, nearly 90 per cent of plastics end up incinerated or in our landfills, lakes,
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Twelve North Atlantic right whales have been spotted in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the same busy channel where the critically-endangered species suffered catastrophic deaths last summer. The whale sightings, confirmed by the federal government on Thursday, May 24, led to the closure of six fishing zones in the gulf. Another nine zones, including snow
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In this edition of EcoNews, we bring you our Fundy Baykeeper’s scathing reaction to N.B.-based Northern Harvest Sea Farms’ deliberate use of illegal pesticides in the Bay of Fundy; we give you the good news from Moncton about a possible looming ban on plastic bags; we invite you to tell us your 2018 flood story
Our Fundy Baykeeper, Matt Abbott, told CBC News he will be closely monitoring an impending court case involving New Brunswick-based aquaculture company Northern Harvest Sea Farms. The company, which has licenses to operate nine salmon farms on the Bay of Fundy, is alleged to have violated section 15 of New Brunswick’s Pesticides Control Act, which
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