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IPCC’s special report on climate change and oceans is scientific call to action to protect coastal communities and critical inshore fisheries

CCNB Blog, Fundy Baykeeper, Marine Conservation, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

The Conservation Council’s Marine Conservation Program issued the following statement with respect to the release of today’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): “This report is a scientific call to action that we must act urgently to drastically reduce the carbon pollution […]

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Protecting public health should drive climate policy

CCNB Blog, Media Releases / Louise Comeau & Lois Corbett

Atlantic premiers and New England Governors were set to meet Sept. 8-10 in Saint John and climate change was on the agenda. As it happened, the meeting was cancelled due to anticipated extreme weather from Hurricane Dorian bearing down on the Atlantic region. Fittingly, on the agenda for the since-cancelled meeting was energy grid modernization

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Media statement: Time to turn the page on shale gas in N.B.

Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council, issued the following statement with regards to Corridor Resources’ decision to stop looking for investors in its Frederick Brook Shale prospects in southeastern New Brunswick. “It is time for our provincial government to once and for all turn the page on shale gas fracking in New Brunswick

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Feds approve plan to dump Sisson Mine waste into Atlantic salmon habitat

CCNB Blog, Media Releases / Kaleigh Holder

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has been a vocal opponent to the Sisson Mine Project as it is currently designed, and we are on the record pointing out its flaws — including inadequate tailings storage and the impact on Atlantic salmon, brook trout, slimy sculpin, and American eel in the lower Wolastoq (St. John) River watershed. To hold back mine waste, the owners say they would need to build a tailings dam twice the height and 16-times the length of the Mactaquac dam.

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That’s two strikes, Premier Higgs!

CCNB Blog, Climate and Energy, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

Ontario’s Court of Appeal has ruled Parliament’s carbon charge is constitutional The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled this afternoon that the federal government has the constitutional authority to impose a carbon tax upon provinces that choose not to implement one themselves. “The need for a collective approach to a matter of national concern, and

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Conservation Council’s new report sparks conversation about climate change as a public health issue in New Brunswick

Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick today releases a new report on climate change and its physical and mental health effects in New Brunswick. The report, Healthy Climate, Healthy New Brunswickers, prepared by Dr. Louise Comeau, Director of the Conservation Council’s Climate Change and Energy Solutions Program, starts a conversation in New Brunswick

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Passage of Bill C-68 ushers in wave of new protections for fish, and for the rivers, lakes and oceans they call home

Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

After almost four years of consultation and parliamentary process, environmental protections for fish and their habitat have finally been restored as a requirement under the law. Bill C-68 reached the last milestone with Senate’s approval on June 18.

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Forget playing with stickers. We need a grown-up discussion about climate change

CCNB Blog, Climate and Energy, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

The Conservation Council’s Executive Director, Lois Corbett, issued the following statement with respect to Premier Blaine Higgs’ scheme to use citizens’ money for gas pump stickers containing misleading information about federal carbon tax. “It is very concerning to me. It seems highly politically motivated and runs up against his pledge to have open, honest and

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All federal parties must reject CAPP’s election demands on energy development and climate change

Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

June 5, 2019, Ottawa—Major Canadian environmental groups are asking all federal parties to reject a set of demands proposed yesterday by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Canada’s largest oil and gas lobby group. CAPP is asking for massive increases in oil and gas production, more oil pipelines and additional oil and gas subsidies,

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Ship has sailed on weak environmental assessments: Conservation Council on Bill C-69

CCNB Blog, Fundy Baykeeper, Marine Conservation, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

(Saint John) The Conservation Council of New Brunswick told the Standing Senate Committee holding hearings on Bill C-69 that the ship has sailed on the era of weak environmental assessments in Canada. Scott Kidd, a longtime member of the Conservation Council with a background in environmental law, spoke on the council’s behalf as the Standing

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