Official CCNB Media Releases
More money is being invested in long-term speculative SMR research than is going to investments to cut greenhouse gas emissions today.
Why do we still lack commitments, plans and pathways from our governments and utilities to set us on a clear pathway to affordable, reliable, environmentally-sustainable energy with cleaner electricity? What is getting in the way? It turns out, it’s a political choice. Governments’ laws, regulations and policies are not keeping pace with technology change or the need to protect our most vulnerable.
NB Power’s staggering debt should give provincial government pause on risky small modular reactor investment
Risky investments do not reduce debt Read More »
Group exhibition by Conservation Council of New Brunswick supporters looks at challenges of climate change and the power of people to make a difference.
Fredericton has made progress on flooding preparedness, but important work remains to better protect citizens’ health and well-being in the face of increasingly severe flooding fueled by climate change.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick welcomes today’s provincial progress report on climate action and calls for an immediate update and deepening of greenhouse gas reduction targets to reflect the latest climate science and federal climate proposals.
Today, the Department of Environment and Local Government registered NB Power’s project to restore Salmon Falls on the Skutik (St. Croix) River by decommissioning and removing the Milltown Dam.
“The removal of the Milltown Dam and restoration of Salmon falls will be good for fish like gaspereau and everything that eats them, good for the river, and good for the Bay of Fundy,” said Matthew Abbott, Fundy Baykeeper with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.
The Milltown Dam is the first barrier migrating fish face as they swim up the Skutik river to their ancestral spawning grounds. Removing the dam and restoring Salmon Falls will allow for growing fish runs that are not limited by the size and effectiveness of the existing fish ladder.
NB Power files EIA for major restoration on the Skutik (St. Croix) River Read More »
Use our letter-writing tool to tell Premier Higgs and Minister Holland you want an affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity system in New Brunswick.
NB Power’s new plan for the future of the province’s electricity system fails to deliver the affordable, reliable and renewable electricity system that New Brunswickers want and need in the fact of increasingly severe climate change.
Today, new wind and solar projects are the cheapest forms of electricity on Earth. Five times cheaper than coal, five times cheaper than nuclear energy, and three times cheaper than natural gas.
An Atlantic Electricity Vision for an affordable, reliable, sustainable future Read More »
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