Tracy Glynn

Energy East – Verging towards victory, staying strong and revealing the spin

This week’s Energy East update includes the efforts of a New Brunswick landowner to have the pipeline diverted away from his property, a message to stay strong against the pipeline from Nebraskan farmer-turned-activist Ben Gotschall, revelations of TransCanada’s spin doctoring, a black snake prophecy linked to the tar sands pipelines and how the NDP’s pipeline […]

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Energy East – Myth busting, mounting opposition & taking action

This week’s Energy East update contains a myth busting commentary, concerns of Indigenous people and landowners who live in the path of the proposed pipeline, news of mounting opposition in Quebec and an easy way for you to tell the National Energy Board that climate change should be considered in their review of the tar

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TransCanada files Energy East application with National Energy Board amidst criticism and opposition

The Conservation Council says the TransCanada pipeline could pose big dangers to provincial waterways and marine life. “In ten minutes, a broken pipeline could spew out 1 million litres of dense, sticky oil,” says Lois Corbett, Executive Director of CCNB. “We’ve seen in other areas how devastating an oil spill can be to thriving fishing

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Energy East: Our Risk, Their Reward with Maude Barlow, Matt Abbott & Others

TransCanada’s Energy East export pipeline project would ship 1.1 million barrels of oil everyday, including tar sands crude, from Alberta to ports in Cacouna, Quebec and Saint John, New Brunswick. It would be the largest tar sands pipeline in North America. Atlantic Canadians are concerned about how a spill would damage waterways including several major

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Celebrating Change: Fundraiser for the Conservation Council

Performances by Brent Mason, Jessica Rhaye and Sandy Mackay with Bill Preeper NB Art for Auction with Artworks by: Darren Emenau, Kathy Hooper, Jeneca Klausen, Sue Hooper,Gerry Collins, Glenn Hall, Darren Byers, Krysta Oland, Freeman Patterson, Meghan Barton, Cliff Turner, Jim Boyd, Shannon Merrifield, Elizabeth Miller and more! PLUS: A night at the Marathon in

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Fredericton joins largest climate march in world history

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Fredericton residents will join hundreds of thousands of people from across the world this weekend in a historic mass action to stop climate change and build an economy for the future. A People’s Climate March will happen in Fredericton at the same time that an estimated quarter of

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CCNB’s Lois Corbett on voters and the environment

From: Province at crossroads on natural resources by Chris Morris, Telegraph-Journal, August 5, 2014. “I think the voter has moved beyond the old jobs-versus-the-environment argument and the belief that you can only have one or the other,” says Lois Corbett, executive director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. “Folks have a much more sophisticated

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Conservation Council video shows forest loss in New Brunswick

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has released a short video that shows remarkable forest loss in New Brunswick from 2000 to 2013. The animated maps reveal that the picture province is no longer home to large intact forest areas. The Conservation Council is concerned that the New Brunswick’s forest strategy will further degrade the

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