Our pretty Acadian forest flowers are about to bloom! You won’t want to miss them like you won’t want to miss your chance to have a say on our forest! New Brunswickers are busy collecting signatures to our petition for our forest. The deadline to pass in petitions has been extended to Earth Day, April […]
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Our Forest Conservation campaigner, Tracy Glynn, appeared in the media this week following our call to phase out the use of herbicides in our Crown forest. Earlier this month, the International Centre for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate – the active ingredient in the herbicide sprayed annually in
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A herbicide sprayed yearly and in large quantities on New Brunswick forests was recently classified as a probable cancer-causing chemical by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization. The decision was published in the journal, Lancet Oncology. Glyphosate, sold under various trade names including Roundup, Vision, and
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The Conservation Council has launched a petition and made it easy for you to send a letter to your MLA and Premier Brian Gallant on protecting our Acadian forest. Please return your petitions to us before the end of April. The petition and the letter asks our MLAs to support four actions for our forest:
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In this forest update, a heads up on how to mobilize for our forest in New Brunswick, analysis of Nova Scotia’s move towards FSC certification of its forest and news of trade action being taken against Irving Paper and other companies for putting cheap wood on the U.S. market. If in Fredericton, hope to see
What’s up in our forest? Mobilization, certification & trade action Read More »
Only 5 days! The application to have your say on the National Energy Board (NEB)’s review of TransCanada’s Energy East oil pipeline proposal is coming to an end March 3. You still have time and lots of reasons to apply! Here are 5: 1. Our precious rivers, streams and creeks: Did you know that TransCanada’s
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New Brunswick has lost a fierce defender of our environment with the passing of Beth McLaughlin on Sunday, Feb. 22. Beth was on the Conservation Council board for years. She worked tirelessly to make people aware of the dangers of nuclear power and she was one of the key organizers who shelved the Jaakko Poyry
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Today, Wednesday, February 18, 2015, David Coon, MLA for Fredericton South, introduced a bill to the Legislative Assembly called, An Act to Return to the Crown Certain Rights Related to Wood Supply and Forest Management. Joining the Conservation Council’s Lois Corbett and Tracy Glynn today for the introduction of the bill was St. Mary’s Chief
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Slogging through the National Energy Board’s process can feel about as thick and gooped-up as the bitumen that TransCanada is proposing to push through its Energy East pipeline. The Conservation Council has put together a Step by Step Guide for getting through the application process to have a say on the proposed Energy East oil
Step by Step: How to apply to have a say on Energy East Read More »
RELEVANT KNOWLDEGE or EXPERTISE TABLE 4 – Issue 7: The potential environmental and socio-economic effects of the proposed project. In the summers I work as a naturalist for a wildlife/whale-watching company based out of Granville Island, in Vancouver. Increased shipping activities will affect the whales in the area (especially the southern resident killer whales, which
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