News posts from CCNB or elsewhere
This weekend, several staff members from the Conservation Council, including our Executive Director Lois Corbett, attended the Act on Climate march in Quebec City. The march was a positive, family-friendly show of force in support of our premiers who are gathering this week in Quebec City to discuss climate change. We were joined in the […]
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On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada Corporation announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in Cacouna, Que., as part of the Alberta-based company’s Energy East oil pipeline proposal. The company nixed the terminal due to a nearby nursing ground for the endangered Beluga whale. The Conservation Council issued a statement saying TransCanada had a responsibility
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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Newspaper L’Acadie Nouvelle reported on the Conservation Council’s call for the provincial government to end the spraying of glyphosates on the Crown forest after an arm of the World Health Organization classified the widely-used herbicide as a probable cancer-causing chemical. Read the article here. On Wednesday, March 25, the Conservation Council issued a press release
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke to media this week following statements from Premier Brian Gallant that the wood allotment for private industry as laid out in the controversial 2014 forestry strategy will not change. Facing heavy questioning from opposition on the forestry file, Gallant told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, March 19 that the
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Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, sat down with CBC Fredericton Information Morning host Terry Seguin on March 12 to discuss how a carbon tax could be used as a fair and effective tool for reducing pollution in New Brunswick. You can listen to the entire interview here. We’ve pulled out some highlights below: Corbett talks
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The Conservation Council of New Brunswick appeared in several media outlets following the deadline for groups and individuals to apply to participate in the National Energy Board’s review of the proposed Energy East oil pipeline. Our Executive Director Lois Corbett and Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott appeared in a March 4 article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. Read
Our President, Liane Thibodeau, spoke with the host of Le réveil Nouveau-Brunswick on March 3 about the work currently underway at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. Liane spoke about CCNB’s commitment to promote, support and help develop a green economy for New Brunswick, based in renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency. Listen to the radio interview
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Our executive director, Lois Corbett, appeared in a story by CBC New Brunswick’s Julianne Hazlewood about New Brunswick being on track to miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets. In the latest climate action plan, the province committed to reducing greenhouse gases to 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. While we were on track
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Our Freshwater Protection Program coordinator, Stephanie Merrill, was quoted in a March 3 article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal about the future of shale gas development in the province. The article looked at the possibility of government extending the exploration licence of SWN Resources, a company that has licenses to explore roughly one seventh of
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