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Job Creation and Climate Change Town Hall Meeting in Fredericton

Fredericton MP Matt DeCourcey will be hosting a “Job Creation and Climate Change Consultation” Town Hall meeting in Fredericton on Tuesday, May 24. These meetings are taking part nation-wide to allow for public participation to develop a national climate strategy. Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Location: Richard Hatfield Room, […]

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Conservation Council comments on Sisson Mine project environmental assessment report

Media Releases / Tracy Glynn

Fredericton – The Sisson Mine should not be approved based on an expert review of the federal government’s Comprehensive Study Report of the project, says the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, a funded participant in the federal environmental review of the project. The Sisson Mine project, if built, would be an open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mine

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Celebrating diversity of life: New logo for New Brunswick

Media Releases / Tracy Glynn

Fredericton, NB) To celebrate May 22, the UN International Day for Biological Diversity, groups in New Brunswick are demonstrating the high value they place on the province’s natural beauty and wild spaces with the launch of a new logo. The logo, with the words ‘Live Wild: Together for New Brunswick Biodiversity’, will help to mainstream

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Conservation Council appointed member of Sustainability Development Advisory Council

Media Releases / Tracy Glynn

FREDERICTON – The Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s Executive Director, Lois Corbett, has been appointed by the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, to the Canada’s Sustainable Development Advisory Council. Developed in response to the federal government’s promise to update our nation’s environmental policy, members of the Sustainable Development

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Facebook and Microsoft join environmental groups in push for 60 Gigawatts of renewable energy by 2025

CCNB Blog / Tracy Glynn

In response to United States recent commitment to the historic 2015 Paris Agreement, over 60 US based including: Facebook and Microsoft, have joined environmental groups to form the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), a coalition promoting the development and greater access to 60 gigawatts of renewable energy in the U.S. by 2025. “We’re proud to be

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CCNB’s Lois Corbett on Mi’kmaq chief’s forestry strategy lawsuit

CCNB in the News / Tracy Glynn

Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s executive director Lois Corbett was quoted in a Telegraph Journal article today, supporting the Mi’kmaq First Nations’ lawsuit against the New Brunswick government over the forestry strategy. Corbett told the Telegraph that the information in the claim statement accompanying the lawsuit shows how the forest policy is an infringement of Aboriginal and treaty

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CCNB supports Mi’kmaq chiefs on forestry strategy

CCNB in the News / Tracy Glynn

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s executive director Lois Corbett was quoted in CBC, supporting the Mi’kmaq First Nations’ lawsuit against the New Brunswick government over the forestry strategy. Corbett told the CBC that the lawsuit shows how the forest policy is an infringement of Aboriginal and treaty rights. Corbett also told CBC: “We agree with

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Conservation Council supports Mi’kmaq First Nations’ Lawsuit

Media Releases / Tracy Glynn

Attention News Editors: Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, issued the following statement about today’s filing of a legal action by Mi’kmaq First Nations Chiefs opposing the provincial government’s 2014 Crown Forest Management Strategy. She is available for comment.“The statement of claim filed today clearly explains how the strategy is

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EcoNews: Involving all NBers in growing the green economy

CCNB Blog, EcoNews / Tracy Glynn

This update lets you know about a forthcoming avenue for all New Brunswickers to engage in the plan to address climate change and grow our low-carbon economy, an upcoming event to get out on the beautiful Hampton Marshes in May, a petition related to controversial aquaculture practices, and more. Engaging all NBers on climate change

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Along the Pipeline Route

Webinars & Events / Tracy Glynn

The public is invited to view the Along the Pipeline exhibition at Conserver House during the month of May. In the summer of 2014, photographer Robert van Waarden travelled the 4500km length of the newly proposed Energy East pipeline across Canada from Hardisty, Alberta to Saint John, New Brunswick. Using a 4×5 film camera, van Waarden hopes to

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Tracy Glynn

Conservation Council of New Brunswick

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