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It’s back! Treat yourself with local goodies at our annual 100 Mile Dinner fundraiser!

CCNB Blog, Community, Fundraiser, Webinars & Events / Corey Robichaud

Join us for our annual 100 Mile Dinner fundraiser! Enjoy a 3-course meal with guest speakers, silent auction, music, local producer fair, and the presentation of The Environmental Journalism Award in memory of Beth McLaughlin. Tickets can be purchased in person at The Corn Crib at 337 Mountain Road or online on Eventbrite but following […]

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Conservation Council of New Brunswick applauds Canada’s ratification of the Paris Agreement

Media Releases / Corey Robichaud

Media Statement October 6, 2016 Fredericton, N.B. — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) applauds the federal Government decision to ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. More than 200 federal MPs voted in favor of the historic motion on Wednesday evening, officially adding Canada to the list of over 60 countries, accounting for 55

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A necessary tool for every tool box: CCNB’s Lois Corbett on federal carbon pricing announcement

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Lois Corbett, Executive Director for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick recently spoke with Global News about our support of the federal government’s carbon pricing proposal. “We’ve recognized for a very long time that carbon pricing is one of those tools that you have to have in your tool box if you’re going to stop

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New Brunswickers are ready. We’re quite thrifty: CCNB’s Lois Corbett on Walmart’s move to charge five cents for plastic bags in Maritime stores

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Today, Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick was featured in CBC article commending Walmart’s move to charge five cents for plastic bags in Maritime stores. “Customers are ready for it,” said Corbett. “I think that New Brunswickers in particular understand the impact of wastefulness. We tend to be a quite thrifty type

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Weather is always a factor: Fundy Baykeeper on Federal study how extreme weather caused by climate change effects marine spills off N.S.

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Yesterday, Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’ Fundy Baykeeper, was quoted in an article published by Local Xpress following the release of tender documents that say the federal government will be studying the effect extreme weather caused by climate change has on marine spills off the coast of Nova Scotia. Fundy Baykeeper says climate is always a

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A diverse forest is our best defence: CCNB’s Tracy Glynn on coming spruce budworm outbreak

CCNB Blog, CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

The Conservation Council’s forest program director, Tracy Glynn, was featured in a CBC story published on Oct. 4, on the subject of an imminent spruce budworm outbreak that scientists expect to hit in New Brunswick. “We’ve simplified our forest for one that is a breeding ground for spruce budworm,” said Glynn. “We need to move toward supporting a

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Conservation Council event with local conservation photographer Nick Hawkins featured in The Aquinian

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Local photographer Nick Hawkins’ lecture on his work to expose the effects of deforestation in Costa Rica and Nicaragua on wildlife species such as the tapir at an overflowing room in the University of New Brunswick’s Forestry and Geology building was the subject of an article published by the St. Thomas The Aquinian, the St.

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A changing climate means a changing forest and end of New Brunswick’s Balsam fir, says Prof

CCNB Blog, Climate and Energy, Forest Conservation / Corey Robichaud

University of New Brunswick Forestry Professor Charles Bourque was quoted in an article published by CBC on Sept 19., saying that if emissions remain at their current level then softwood species like the balsam fir may be gradually ‘eradicated’ due to climate change. “The tree species that require lower temperatures will tend to be eradicated

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The Conservation Council’s Tula Newcomer Garden featured by CBC

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

The Conservation Council’s Tula Newcomer Garden’s first successful season in Keswick Ridge was the subject of a CBC article published on Sept. 22. The twelve-hectare community farm was donated to the Conservation Council by Jim and Kay Bedell in the 1980s and has been the site of Canada’s first Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). This summer, it was

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New Brunswick’s Climate Action Plan: EcoAlert Summer 2016!

CCNB Blog / Corey Robichaud

This special edition of EcoAlert gives you a first look at our bold new made-in New Brunswick climate action plan, a roadmap for finding renewable energy providers in New Brunswick, and cuts through the jargon and technicalities behind New Brunswick’s upcoming Smart Grid Innovation Network. In this issue: • A bold new made-in-New Brunswick climate action

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