This year, give mom a gift that protects New Brunswick’s beautiful nature she loves so much. A $50 donation to the Conservation Council in your mom’s honour gets you a copy of our new book, The Great Trees of New Brunswick, 2nd Edition. All proceeds go toward the Conservation Council’s work to protect nature in New Brunswick.
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It didn’t take long for the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to determine that the federal government does, indeed, have the constitutional authority to take action on climate change in provinces that choose not to meet minimum national standards for large polluters or carbon pollution pricing. Last Friday the Court issued its 3-2 decision, saying the
Premier Blaine Higgs should take a stand to protect New Brunswickers from climate change. This is the fight he should be waging. New Brunswickers know climate change is real and is affecting our lives already. From ice and wind storms, to heat waves, to floods, we know this is not how it used to be.
Protect us from climate change, Premier Higgs, not the carbon tax Read More »
New Brunswickers from all walks of life gathered in Saint John on May Day (May 1) to call on J.D. Irving to stop its citizen-funded herbicide spraying program on Crown land. Citizens met at King’s Square, some dressed in creative costumes of woodland critters, to hear from several speakers, including Wolastoq Grand Chief Ron Tremblay
As New Brunswickers along the Wolastoq (St. John) River face the reality of a second “flood of the century” in two years, it is clear that a new approach to flood management is urgently needed. While some flooding during the spring freshet is expected, the devastating floods we’ve lived through in recent years are not
(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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Our Executive Director Lois Corbett blasted NB Power CEO Gaetan Thomas this week for calling the federal government’s carbon tax “bad policy” while the utility he runs looks to double down on old-fashioned, 1980s electricity systems. “Sometimes I think that Mr. Thomas carries a great big purse around and in it is a whole bunch
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On April 2, 2019, Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change approved the production of genetically-modified Atlantic salmon by AquaBounty Technologies at Roll Bay in Prince Edward Island. This may represent the first genetically modified animal for human consumption anywhere in the world. The new fish includes genes from Pacific Chinook salmon
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You may have noticed some curious posts about the federal carbon tax on the Government of New Brunswick’s Facebook Page and website. Premier Blaine Higgs’ Progressive Conservative government’s materials on the carbon tax and what it will mean for New Brunswick cherry-picks facts about the issue, misconstrues how we got here, and (until recently, after
Here’s what you need to know about the carbon tax in N.B. Read More »
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke with L’Acadie Nouvelle this week about the provincial government’s proposed “made-in-New Brunswick” carbon pricing plan for large industrial polluters and the province’s carbon pollution reduction targets. In new materials distributed on the Government of New Brunswick’s website and Facebook page, the province is claiming it is well on its
Corbett talks NB’s biggest carbon polluters with Acadie-Nouvelle Read More »
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