FREDERICTON — The declaration from premiers at the Quebec Summit on Climate Change puts momentum behind the effort to protect our climate and reduce carbon pollution, says the Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. Yesterday the premiers released a declaration containing several commitments for greater cooperation and meaningful action to curb climate […]
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This weekend, a few staff members and volunteers with the Conservation Council hopped in a super-fuel-efficient vehicle and traveled to Quebec City for the Act on Climate March. What a powerful trip it was! At their most optimistic, organizers were hoping to get 12,000 people out in the streets. But Canadians’ passion for a clean
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And so we had another big climate action rally taking place this weekend, this time in Quebec City. I know what some must have thought: ‘Ah great, there go those damn environmentalists again, if they had their way nobody in the country would have have a job.’ It’s a reputation that, truth be told, could
This weekend, several staff members from the Conservation Council, including our Executive Director Lois Corbett, attended the Act on Climate march in Quebec City. The march was a positive, family-friendly show of force in support of our premiers who are gathering this week in Quebec City to discuss climate change. We were joined in the
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FREDERICTON — A new poll shows New Brunswickers want their government leaders to act now to protect the climate. Polling determined an overwhelming majority of New Brunswickers — a margin of nearly 8 to 1 — believe we should be global leaders in protecting the climate by reducing our energy consumption. The national telephone poll
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FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has partnered with Earth Day Canada to help New Brunswickers make eco-friendly choices this April 22 and beyond. The province’s leading environmental organization will be supplying free materials to schools and teachers and providing event toolkits for groups or individuals looking to organize local events across New
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This is no delayed April Fools joke — today a group of classical economists came out with a report saying it’s time for Canada’s provinces to put a price on carbon pollution, and if we do, our own pocketbooks will thank us. The report, The Way Forward: A Practical Approach to Reducing Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions,
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On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada Corporation announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in Cacouna, Que., as part of the Alberta-based company’s Energy East oil pipeline proposal. The company nixed the terminal due to a nearby nursing ground for the endangered Beluga whale. The Conservation Council issued a statement saying TransCanada had a responsibility
FREDERICTON — TransCanada Corporation has a moral responsibility to withdraw its Energy East project from the national review process now that significant changes have been made to the original oil pipeline proposal, says the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in
Newspaper L’Acadie Nouvelle reported on the Conservation Council’s call for the provincial government to end the spraying of glyphosates on the Crown forest after an arm of the World Health Organization classified the widely-used herbicide as a probable cancer-causing chemical. Read the article here. On Wednesday, March 25, the Conservation Council issued a press release
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