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CCNB’s Executive Director Lois Corbett was mentioned in several news stories on Monday as she welcomed the provincial government’s decision to introduce legislative amendments to ban municipalities from disposing of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing in a press release put out on Monday. “We are pleased to see the government set clear rules to close this […]
Louise Comeau, the Conservation Council’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions, told CBC in a story published on Nov. 1, 2016 that a new report on flood preparedness in Canadian provinces and the Yukon by a researcher at the University of Waterloo only give us the part of the picture. The report gave New Brunswick a
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Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper, attended a lively open house by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on how to best protect the Bay of Fundy in St. George on Oct. 26, 2016. “The Bay of Fundy is a special place. I think all of us that live here know it,” Abbott
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Dr. Louise Comeau, the Conservation Council’s Climate Change and Energy Solutions Director, had a busy week talking to media about the recommendations made in the “Final Report of the Select Committee on Climate Change.” The all-party committee made 85 recommendations that are in line with what the Conservation Council has been proposing — including a phase out of
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Lois Corbett, Executive Director for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, was quoted in an interview on CBC’s Information morning with Terry Seguin published on Oct 19, as saying that the Twin Rivers pulp and paper mill in Edmundston should have done a better job at notifying people it had a leak. “The company to its
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Lois Corbett, Executive Director for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick recently spoke with Global News about our support of the federal government’s carbon pricing proposal. “We’ve recognized for a very long time that carbon pricing is one of those tools that you have to have in your tool box if you’re going to stop
Today, Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick was featured in CBC article commending Walmart’s move to charge five cents for plastic bags in Maritime stores. “Customers are ready for it,” said Corbett. “I think that New Brunswickers in particular understand the impact of wastefulness. We tend to be a quite thrifty type
Yesterday, Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’ Fundy Baykeeper, was quoted in an article published by Local Xpress following the release of tender documents that say the federal government will be studying the effect extreme weather caused by climate change has on marine spills off the coast of Nova Scotia. Fundy Baykeeper says climate is always a
The Conservation Council’s forest program director, Tracy Glynn, was featured in a CBC story published on Oct. 4, on the subject of an imminent spruce budworm outbreak that scientists expect to hit in New Brunswick. “We’ve simplified our forest for one that is a breeding ground for spruce budworm,” said Glynn. “We need to move toward supporting a
The Conservation Council’s Director of climate change and energy solutions Dr. Louise Comeau says New Brunswick isn’t doing its best when it comes to climate action. Comeau says N.B.’s rating on improving efficiencies in building and transportation – like investing in carbon pricing – don’t compare to other canadian provinces, who are ahead of the
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