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Fredericton has improved its flooding preparedness, but important work remains to further protect citizens and homeowners from increasingly severe flooding fueled by climate change.
Comeau: Residents need more help on flood preparedness Read More »
Corbett said it’s good news contaminants appear to be flowing away from residential wells, but stressed long term monitoring will be needed to ensure residents’ safety.
The Conservation Council’s Louise Comeau, Director of Climate and Energy Solutions, recently spoke to CBC New Brunswick about the recent surge of interest in NB Power’s Total Home Energy Savings Program. The program helps New Brunswickers get an energy audit of their home and offers financial assistance for those who make energy efficiency improvements to
Comeau comments on NB Power’s energy efficiency program for homeowners Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If the Department of Education is setting up a ‘Centre of Excellence for Energy,’ students and teachers would be best served learning about renewable energy and technology to help the switch to a low-carbon economy, rather than the energy of yesteryear like oil, gas and coal. That was our Executive Director Lois Corbett’s message to
Dr. Louise Comeau, our Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions, is holding the federal government accountable for approving significantly weaker regulations for New Brunswick’s heavy industrial polluters than the federal government’s own carbon pricing system would allow. Comeau was quoted in articles published by the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, CBC New Brunswick and CTV Atlantic.
Federal government failing New Brunswickers by approving weak regulations: Comeau Read More »
Polling commissioned by your Conservation Council and our friends at CPAWS-NB and the Atlantic Salmon Federation was covered in the Sept. 9 edition of Acadie-Nouvelle. Read the Acadie-Nouvelle article here. The poll showed overwhelming support from New Brunswickers for conserving forests, ending herbicide spraying in forestry, and protecting critical habitat for fish and wildlife.
Poll shows New Brunswickers want more protected land, less spraying Read More »
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke with the Fredericton Daily Gleaner in late July about the unusually low water level of some of New Brunswick’s rivers this summer. The Gleaner’s Michael Staples reports that stream flows in June were below normal across most of the province, with southern watersheds recording less than 45 per cent
Low, warm water stresses river life Read More »
Our recent poll showing big support for the removal of the Milltown Dam and restoration of Salmon Falls received good coverage in regional media. As you’ll remember, last month the Conservation Council and Atlantic Salmon Federation commissioned Oraclepoll Research to ask residents of the St. Stephen, St. Andrews, McAdam, and Campobello region about their awareness
Big love for the St. Croix/Skutik River Read More »
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke to CBC New Brunswick about the long-delayed Sisson Mine proposal on July 24. As the CBC’s Bob Jones put it: It’s been a tough year for Northcliff Resources Ltd., the company behind a long delayed tungsten and molybdenum mine development known as the Sisson project in central New Brunswick. Its
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, is questioning the decision to put the top civil servant responsible for developing forestry and energy policies also in charge of the environmental rules that govern those sectors, and says now is not the time to have fewer people working on critical environmental issues like water protection and climate change.
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