Day: August 17, 2015

The National Energy Board — a ‘captured’ regulator?

Uncategorized / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

As well as exploring the risks TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline poses to existing jobs in New Brunswick and our natural environment, it’s important to examine the regulatory system under which the project is being assessed. Pipeline proposals that cross provincial boundaries, such as the Energy East Pipeline project, go before the National Energy Board (NEB), the federal […]

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Stephanie Merrill on anniversary of Ombudsman’s Water Classification report

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Stephanie Merrill, our Director of Freshwater Protection, was interviewed in a story about the one-year anniversary of the Ombudsman’s report into the Water Classification Program. Merrill told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in an article published Monday, Aug. 17 that concerned citizens are waiting for the provincial government to put the regulations into place. “All of the work

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Diluted bitumen — what is it?

Uncategorized / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

What we don’t know The things we don’t know about dilbit are worrisome given that TransCanada wants to have the product flowing through our watersheds and into the Bay of Fundy by 2020. An unpublished, federally-commissioned review of the environmental impacts of bitumen on water listed 10 areas where knowledge is lacking: Toxicology: Research on

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Climate change and Energy East

Uncategorized / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline would significantly increase Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. Primarily an export project, it would facilitate a 40 per cent expansion of the oil sands in western Canada, increasing national greenhouse gas emissions by 32 million tonnes — more emissions currently generated by all four of the Atlantic provinces combined. Canada’s oil sands are the

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August 17, 2015

The National Energy Board — a ‘captured’ regulator?

Stephanie Merrill on anniversary of Ombudsman’s Water Classification report

Diluted bitumen — what is it?

Climate change and Energy East

Conservation Council of New Brunswick

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