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The Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper appeared in dozens of media outlets responding to TransCanada’s amended Energy East application that doubles the amount of tanker traffic related to the bitumen pipeline project in the Bay of Fundy and along the US east coast. Matt Abbott told CBC New Brunswick that the changes will significantly increase the […]
Conservation Council staff were featured in the evening news of New Brunswick’s francophone media this week. French spokesperson, Pascale Ouellette, appeared on Téléjournal Acadie on Nov. 30 to talk about the UN climate change summit happening now in Paris and where New Brunswick stands in Canada for greenhouse gas emissions. Ouellette told Téléjournal Acadie that
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Stephanie Merrill spoke to reporters about the provincial government’s approval of the Sisson Mine project’s Environmental Impact Assessment. Merrill told Global News she was surprised by the announcement as final approval of the project is a joint process between the provincial and federal government, and the feds have yet to submit its review of the project.
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Editor’s note: The following appears in our Special Edition issue of EcoAlert, Making it Happen: COP21 in Paris Standing beside Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at November’s Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, American President Barack Obama used a great metaphor to describe how he sees transition away from polluting energy sources to a low-carbon economy unfolding, so
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Executive Director Lois Corbett spoke with CBC New Brunswick about how well the provincial government is enforcing the Fish and Wildlife Act. An investigation by CBC revealed that the The Department of Natural Resources has a 14 per cent conviction rate over the last five years when dealing with major violations of the Fish and Wildlife Act. The news
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The press conference held on Thursday, Nov. 27 by more than 30 groups — representing forestry workers, salmon associations, wildlife and conservation groups, and academics — to call for a new Crown Lands and Forests Act received significant coverage by media in New Brunswick. The conference was covered by CBC, Radio-Canada, Global News, the New Brunswick
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The stop our Renewable Solutions NB Tour made in Woodstock in late November was covered in the Woodstock Bugle-Observer on Friday, Nov. 20. The full article follows. For more information on the Renewable Solutions Tour, see here. The Transition Town Public Forum will be hosting the Renewable Energy Solutions Tour on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at
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The international news agency Reuters published an exclusive story on Irving Oil’s struggles to adequately control air pollution coming from its marine terminal in Saint John on November 11, 2015. The article referenced research commissioned by the Conservation Council in 2009 which showed lung cancer rates in the city were 50 percent higher than in
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This commentary was written by CCNB Science Advisor Inka Milewski and originally appeared in the Nov. 12, 2015 edition of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. It later appeared in the Nov. 24 edition of The Northern Light. With catch restrictions placed on salmon anglers, thousands of volunteer hours dedicated to river and stream enhancement projects, millions
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A Fredericton city councillor says he will invite the Conservation Council of New Brunswick to share the results of a survey it is conducting on environmental priorities with council. Interns at CCNB have been canvassing in Fredericton since Oct. 14. They’re asking residents a five-minute questionnaire about environmental values and priorities. In an article published in The
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