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Good news for forest industry is not good news for our forest or communities

Conservation Council of New Brunswick Media Release Fredericton – Premier David Alward is promising good news for the forest industry in response to their lobbying efforts for long-term access to timber supply. The Conservation Council encourages the Alward government to consider the long-term health of New Brunswick’s mixedwood forest and our forest dependent communities in […]

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Time for herbicide spraying of public forest to stop because of new science, public opposition: CCNB

Fredericton – Citing scientific evidence and public opposition, CCNB is renewing calls for the provincial government to cease herbicide spraying of the province’s public forest with the return of the 2013 spray season. Glyphosate-based herbicides are sprayed on 12,000 to 14,000 hectares of softwood plantations and cutover areas on public land in New Brunswick every year.

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Miramichi mill under fire for ‘toxic’ emissions

CBC June 4, 2013 “These are nasty, toxic, cancer-causing chemicals,” said Inka Milewski, of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. The mill’s operating permit from the Department of Environment allows for 140 metric tonnes of formaldehyde emissions a year. That’s more than what was allowed for most of the time Weyerhaeuser was running the mill,

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Mill’s levels of emissions have not increased: Arbec

Kris McDavid, Miramichi Leader June 4, 2013 Miramichi resident Inka Milewski, a science adviser with the council, in a statement accused the provincial government of putting conditions in place under the mill’s mandatory approval to operate agreement, which dictates air quality requirements, that gives Arbec increased wiggle room to expel larger quantities of potentially harmful

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Province relaxes controls on cancer-causing pollutants from Miramichi mill

Miramichi – The Conservation Council of New Brunswick is asking the province of New Brunswick to reinstate and enforce pollution controls on formaldehyde emissions from the OSB mill in Miramichi and set limits on their acetaldehyde emissions. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde are known cancer-causing pollutants.  According to Environment Canada’s national pollutant release inventory and Pollution Watch,

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Plant a feast for our bees

The beautiful and buzzing mixed-wood Acadian forest of the Maritimes is dependent on pollinators such as bumblebees. The native black cherry and basswood trees require insect pollination, as do native shrubs such as hazelnut and staghorn sumac, native flowers such as spring beauty and trilliums, and native berries such as blueberries and cranberries.  Scientists point

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Autochtones engagés

Par Anabel Cossette Civitella, L’Étoile 27 mai 2013 «Comme dans n’importe quel mouvement, il y a des hauts et des bas, mais dans les années passées, nous avons vu un sommet dans l’activité, autant de la part des Premières Nations que du côté des proenvironnement, largement en raison des politiques du gouvernement Harper», renchérit Tracy

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Conservation Council announces 2013 eco-heroes

For Immediate Release Fredericton – The Conservation Council of New Brunswick will present its annual Milton F. Gregg Conservation Awards in Fredericton on Saturday, April 27th. The award for lifetime achievement will be presented to Alma Brooks, a Maliseet grandmother and long-time activist for the Wulustuk River, also known as the Saint John River. Charles

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“Staring down the barrel of a pipeline:” Winona LaDuke warns against lost perspective in a time of climate change

St. Mary’s/Sitansik/Fredericton – Winona LaDuke, whose books are read in classes at St. Thomas University, just got a new fan base in Fredericton this week. Hundreds gathered to hear LaDuke, an Anishinaabe woman from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, speak about extreme energy and the need for local food security and community-owned energy at

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