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Canada’s newest marine protected area located in the Arctic

Canada’s newest area of protected ocean in the Northwest Territories is an Arctic haven for marine mammals, Arctic char and other aquatic species that are vital to Inuvialuit people living along the Beaufort Sea. Earlier this month, Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced the designation of a 2,361-square-kilometer patch of coastal waters for special protection. The […]

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Retired forester David Palmer and the Conservation Council seeking nominations for NB’s great trees

CCNB in the News / Emily Mcphee

David Palmer of Atlantic Forestry Review is working with the Conservation Council on a second edition of The Great Trees of New Brunswick. Palmer spoke with Terry Seguin on Information Morning on Wednesday, Nov. 23 about the original book, published almost 30 years ago, and the challenge to find today’s great trees for the second edition. The first book

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EcoNews – Passing the Puck Forward & Closing Fracking Loopholes

CCNB Blog, EcoNews / Emily Mcphee

This edition of EcoNews includes the wise words of Louise Comeau and Matt Abbott on the Energy East pipeline, Lois Corbett on the New Brunswick government’s decision to close a fracking legal loophole and protect municipal drinking water systems, a look at lessons learned from tropical storm Arthur and the need for flood preparedness in New Brunswick,

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Let’s close the door on shale gas development once and for all

CCNB Blog / Jim Emberger

We applaud the Gallant government’s decision to amend the Clean Environment Act to ban the disposal of fracking wastewater in municipal and provincial sewage treatment systems. The scientific studies behind the decision have long noted that municipal wastewater systems were not designed to deal with industrial waste. They cannot remove substances for which they were

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What to expect: Dr. Comeau on upcoming phase-out of coal power

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Dr. Louise Comeau, our Conservation Council’s Climate Change and Energy Solutions Director spoke with Terry Seguin on Information Morning Fredericton on the 22nd about the federal government’s announcement to phase-out coal-fired electricity by 2030. “You need to think about the entire electricity system and look at how do we manage the transition to a clean

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Gov’t of Canada Announces Electricity System to be 90% Emissions Free by 2030: New Standard Means Coal Phase-Out by 2030

Media Releases, Uncategorized / Emily Mcphee

PRESS RELEASE Government of Canada Announces Electricity System to be 90% Emissions Free by 2030: New Standard Means Coal Phase-out by 2030 November 21, 2016 Fredericton – New Brunswick, along with Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Alberta will soon transform their electricity systems to non-emitting sources to comply with a federal regulation announced today by Catherine McKenna,

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Media Advisory: CCNB available for comment on new report calling on federal government to phase-out coal powered electricity generation by 2030

Media Releases / Corey Robichaud

What: Dr. Louise Comeau, the Conservation Council’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions, will be available to respond to questions about a new report, Out with the coal, in with the new: National benefits of an accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power. The report will be released in Ottawa by the Pembina Institute in collaboration with CCNB

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Time for water classification is now

CCNB Blog / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

There has been much written on New Brunswick’s surface water. We should protect it. We should sell it. We should use it for fracking, tourism, or just simply leave it be for its own sake. Everyone has an opinion. One thing, though—people in general do not have a handle on the state of our province’s

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Pass the puck forward: CCNB on Energy East Pipeline

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Dr. Louise Comeau, our Conservation Council’s Climate Change and Energy Solutions Director and Fundy Baykeeper, Matt Abbott, wrote an opinion piece published in the Nov 14, 2016 Telegraph Journal’s Pipeline Battlelines Commentary series looking at the future of the proposed Energy East Pipeline. “To bring it home in hockey terms, how should our government make

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Lois Corbett on provincial gov’t decision banning gas industry wastewater from municipal treatment systems

CCNB in the News / Emily Mcphee

CCNB’s Executive Director Lois Corbett was mentioned in several news stories on Monday as she welcomed the provincial government’s decision to introduce legislative amendments to ban municipalities from disposing of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing in a press release put out on Monday. “We are pleased to see the government set clear rules to close this

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