Day: March 3, 2015

CCNB President Liane Thibodeau speaks with Le réveil Nouveau-Brunswick

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Our President, Liane Thibodeau, spoke with the host of Le réveil Nouveau-Brunswick on March 3 about the work currently underway at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. Liane spoke about CCNB’s commitment to promote, support and help develop a green economy for New Brunswick, based in renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency. Listen to the radio interview […]

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CCNB’s Lois Corbett comments on province lagging behind greenhouse gas reduction targets

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Our executive director, Lois Corbett, appeared in a story by CBC New Brunswick’s Julianne Hazlewood about New Brunswick being on track to miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets. In the latest climate action plan, the province committed to reducing greenhouse gases to 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. While we were on track

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CCNB applies for intervenor status in review of proposed Energy East oil pipeline

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has applied to be an intervenor in the National Energy Board’s review of the proposed Energy East oil pipeline. It is one of nearly 1,000 groups and individuals to apply to participate in the review of TransCanada Corporation’s proposal to build a 4,600-kilometre oil pipeline from the

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CCNB’s Stephanie Merrill on risks of hydraulic fracturing

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Our Freshwater Protection Program coordinator, Stephanie Merrill, was quoted in a March 3 article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal about the future of shale gas development in the province. The article looked at the possibility of government extending the exploration licence of SWN Resources, a company that has licenses to explore roughly one seventh of

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