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Ship has sailed on weak environmental assessments: Conservation Council on Bill C-69

CCNB Blog, Fundy Baykeeper, Marine Conservation, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

(Saint John) The Conservation Council of New Brunswick told the Standing Senate Committee holding hearings on Bill C-69 that the ship has sailed on the era of weak environmental assessments in Canada. Scott Kidd, a longtime member of the Conservation Council with a background in environmental law, spoke on the council’s behalf as the Standing […]

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A big win for the Bay of Fundy

CCNB Blog, Feature / Jon MacNeill

Great news for all who love our Bay of Fundy and New Brunswick’s beautiful freshwater rivers, lakes and streams. TransCanada has announced it is abandoning its Energy East oil sands pipeline — a project we here at the Conservation Council have been working hard to stop for the past five years. We want to thank

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September EcoNews: All about spray, schools and salmon

CCNB Blog, EcoNews / Jon MacNeill

In this edition of EcoNews, we show you which communities’ drinking water supply zones are being sprayed with glyphosate-based herbicides; bring you an update on Petitcodiac residents’ quest to end the controversial spraying in their region; give you a rundown of Cooke Aquaculture’s recent massive salmon farm failure; bring you our reaction to the latest

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NEB gets failing grade on Bay of Fundy impacts, says Corbett

CCNB in the News / Leah Meyer

Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, told media outlets this week she is pleased the National Energy Board (NEB), for the first time ever, will look at the big picture of how carbon pollution will impact our changing climate when reviewing the proposed Energy East bitumen pipeline, but said the NEB got it flat wrong when

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Homes evacuated after 1,200 barrels of crude spills in rural Texas

CCNB Blog, Climate and Energy / Leah Meyer

Families were forced to leave their homes after an estimated 1,200 barrels of crude oil spilled from a pipeline rupture in Bastrop County, TX, on Thursday, July 13. Local news media reported that an excavator accidentally cut the Magellan’s Longhorn pipeline shortly before 9 a.m. CST while working on a section of the pipe. The company, Magellan

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Not the “final nail” in the Energy East coffin, but a step in the right direction

CCNB in the News, Climate and Energy, Climate and Jobs, Marine Conservation / Corey Robichaud

The Conservation Council’s Executive Director says the climate change impacts of large pipeline projects should always be factored into their review process, but noted the addition of a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions test for the Energy East Pipeline is not the final nail in the proposed bitumen pipeline’s coffin. “Any comprehensive review of a project of this

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It’s not whether there will be a spill, but when: CCNB Fundy Baykeeper on NRDC tanker report

CCNB in the News, Fundy Baykeeper, Marine Conservation / Corey Robichaud

On July 26, 2016, Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’ Fundy Baykeeper, was quoted in the Journal Metro de Montreal following the release of an NRDC report that’s sounding the alarm on a massive increase of supertankers set to ship the dirtiest oil in the world across the Atlantic Ocean every year. “TransCanada and Irving Oil

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Sensitive Marine Ecosystems Threatened by Energy East’s ‘Aquatic Pipeline’

CCNB Blog, Marine Conservation / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

New Report Shows Energy East Pipeline A Massive Threat to Atlantic Canada and U.S. Marine Resources Canadian Groups Call on Federal Government to Reject Pipelines, As New U.S.Led Campaign Calls for National Tar Sands Dilbit Tanker Ban July 26, 2016, Saint John—A new report released today by the US – based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),

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#Divest: Student leaders champion fight for climate justice

CCNB Blog, Feature / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Just as students were drivers of social change in the divestment campaign to end apartheid in South Africa, one of the key fights for climate protection today is also being blazed on college and university campuses across the world, including here in New Brunswick. Today and tomorrow, people from across the world will show their

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Capitalism vs. the Climate- Public Lecture by Naomi Klein

CCNB Blog / Olivia DeYoung

“The time for energy democracy has come”, said author and climate change activist Naomi Klein, early last week at a public lecture on her latest book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. On Tuesday, February 26th, we travelled to Sackville, NB to hear Naomi Klein speak on her latest book. Klein is a Canadian

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