Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke with CBC Information Morning Fredericton host Terry Seguin on Tuesday, Oct. 10 about the long saga of getting laws in place to protect water in New Brunswick. The Department of Environment and Local Government (DELG) released its draft discussion document, A Water Strategy for New Brunswick 2018-2028, on Friday, […]
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Attention News Editors: Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, issued the following statement about the Department of Environment and Local Government’s draft discussion document, A Water Strategy for New Brunswick 2018-2028. She is available for comment. “Positive improvements recommended in the document include preparing an annual State of the Water
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick responded to news of TransCanada’s decision to cancel its proposed Energy East diluted bitumen pipeline with both a sigh of relief for New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy and coastal communities so dependent upon it, and hope that this decision will spur New Brunswick and Canada to aggressively go after
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Great news for all who love our Bay of Fundy and New Brunswick’s beautiful freshwater rivers, lakes and streams. TransCanada has announced it is abandoning its Energy East oil sands pipeline — a project we here at the Conservation Council have been working hard to stop for the past five years. We want to thank
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For Immediate Release – Sept. 26, 2017 Environment and Climate Change Canada Reluctant to Enforce Regulations against Aquaculture Operators K’JIPUKTUK/HALIFAX — A retired Environment Canada employee and conservation and environmental law groups are calling for action from the federal government after Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) confirmed certain aquaculture activities result in a disposal at
In this edition of EcoNews, we show you which communities’ drinking water supply zones are being sprayed with glyphosate-based herbicides; bring you an update on Petitcodiac residents’ quest to end the controversial spraying in their region; give you a rundown of Cooke Aquaculture’s recent massive salmon farm failure; bring you our reaction to the latest
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As forestry companies continue to spray glyphosate-based herbicides across the province this month, we’ve taken an in-depth look at exactly how much spraying is happening within the drinking water supply areas of some New Brunswick communities. Here’s a breakdown of what we found, using the publicly-available data at forestinfo.ca: Want the spraying to stop? Our representatives in
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Upwards of 150 people attended an open house in Petitcodiac last night (Wednesday, Sept. 6) to get answers about the use of glyphosate-based herbicides in the region. The open house was organized by J.D. Irving Ltd after a meeting scheduled in August between the forestry company and village council was cancelled by Mayor Jerry Gogan,
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Some students in the Moncton area will travel to school in true 21st century style when classes resume next week. Two electric school buses will be added to the Anglophone East School District and Francophone South School District fleets as part of a pilot project, the province announced yesterday (Thursday, Aug. 31). Is your child
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Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, told media outlets this week she is pleased the National Energy Board (NEB), for the first time ever, will look at the big picture of how carbon pollution will impact our changing climate when reviewing the proposed Energy East bitumen pipeline, but said the NEB got it flat wrong when
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