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The leader of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative party told CBC News this week that he is open to revisiting the controversial forestry deal that his party negotiated and signed when it was in power in 2014. “In the case of the forestry deal, did we achieve the best value for the citizens of the province?” […]
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Dallas McQuarrie, a Kent County-based journalist who has written about forestry mismanagement, Aboriginal title claims, and other pressing environmental issues in New Brunswick, is this year’s first-place recipient of the Beth McLaughlin Environmental Journalism Award. McQuarrie received the award, given annually since 2015 to a New Brunswick journalist in recognition of in-depth reporting and thoughtful
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On Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, elected officials in New Brunswick’s Legislative Assembly debated a motion about the spraying of glyphosate-based herbicides in the province’s Crown forest. The motion, brought forward by Gagetown-Petitcodiac MLA Ross Wetmore (PC), called for the formation of a working group made of government departments and outside stakeholders to look at the
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“Deep in the heart of the New Brunswick forest in a place where a mighty river flows is a dream of a community forest,” opens the chapter by the Conservation Council’s Tracy Glynn about the efforts by Upper Miramichi residents in a new book on community forests in Canada. Growing Community Forests, edited by Ryan
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Dr. Thierry Vrain, a molecular biologist and retired federal government research scientist, wrapped up his week of public presentations about glyphosate spraying in New Brunswick by talking about the controversial herbicide with CBC Information Morning host Terry Seguin on Monday, Nov. 6. Dr. Vrain presented research showing the unacceptable long-term health risks of glyphosate spraying
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Our Forest Campaign Director, Tracy Glynn, told the Canadian Press on Friday, Oct. 27 that New Brunswick should look at new models for managing our public forest in light of a new federal study investigating changes likely to occur in the Maritimes’ Acadian forest as a result of climate change. The Natural Resources Canada study
5 Days for the Forest is back this year to celebrate our forest in its fall glory with nature walks, art, music, film and TREEvia. Hosted by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, 5 Days for the Forest events will occur in Fredericton during National Forest Week, Sept. 25-29, 2017. Monday, Sept. 25 Old Hemlock
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As forestry companies continue to spray glyphosate-based herbicides across the province this month, we’ve taken an in-depth look at exactly how much spraying is happening within the drinking water supply areas of some New Brunswick communities. Here’s a breakdown of what we found, using the publicly-available data at forestinfo.ca: Want the spraying to stop? Our representatives in
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Upwards of 150 people attended an open house in Petitcodiac last night (Wednesday, Sept. 6) to get answers about the use of glyphosate-based herbicides in the region. The open house was organized by J.D. Irving Ltd after a meeting scheduled in August between the forestry company and village council was cancelled by Mayor Jerry Gogan,
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Join us in welcoming home New Brunswick-born Dr. Matt Betts as he delivers a talk about how and why we should protect forest biodiversity. An award-wining environmental scientist professor in the Faculty of Forest Science & Society at Oregon State University and founding member of the Forest Biodiversity Research Network, Matt studies the ways that landscape and patterns
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