LOUISE COMEAU & MATTHEW ABBOTT COMMENTARY (Published in the Nov 14, 2016 Telegraph Journal) Matthew Abbott and Louise Comeau of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick use a hockey metaphor – and concerns about a changing climate – as a lens for the Energy East pipeline project. Photo: MiraMichi Leader archive In a small part […]
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*Guest blog first featured in the Huddle* A carbon tax is coming to New Brunswick. What will it mean for the province’s businesses? That’s something many are pondering following an announcement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month saying he’s giving the provinces until 2018 to adopt a carbon pricing system, or the federal government will
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November 4, 2016 The landmark global accord to reduce carbon pollution officially enters into force today, requiring almost 200 countries worldwide, including China, the United States, India and Canada, to act on the commitments their leaders first pledged when negotiating the Paris Agreement in December, 2015. Worldwide, leaders and climate activists have turned to social
CCNB’s Weekend Movie Pick: Follow Leonardo DiCaprio in Before the Flood, a fresh new documentary on climate change released earlier this week,and watch as he travels the globe in a quest to show us the real-life effects affects of climate change, the real people it’s affecting and what must be done today to limit the risks
Louise Comeau, the Conservation Council’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions, told CBC in a story published on Nov. 1, 2016 that a new report on flood preparedness in Canadian provinces and the Yukon by a researcher at the University of Waterloo only give us the part of the picture. The report gave New Brunswick a
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Blue-green algae on a New Brunswick lake. Source: 2gnb.ca While a number of New Brunswick lakes have had persistent blue-green algae challenges, last summer we saw a spike in the number of lakes added to the Department of Health advisory list, including outbreaks in well-populated lake watersheds, relatively undisturbed lakes, and surface water supplies providing
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Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper, attended a lively open house by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on how to best protect the Bay of Fundy in St. George on Oct. 26, 2016. “The Bay of Fundy is a special place. I think all of us that live here know it,” Abbott
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Last June, our team at the Conservation Council conducted a series of interviews, including with you and members of your staff, to assess community capacity to adapt to climate change. We used the community’s experience with post-tropical storm Arthur as a focal point for the study. Community capacity is the ability to get things done.
This edition of EcoNews covers the Conservation Council’s responses to the report by the Select Committee on Climate Change and government strategies on local food and water protection. Also included here: information on how to make your views known on protection of fish habitat, a heartwarming story about the Wil-Doo Community Bike Club in Fredericton, our
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Your Conservation Council team is working hard with science and policy groups from all across Canada to help restore key protections for fish and freshwater and marine habitat lost under the previous government’s amendments in the “Omnibus” bill. Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc has opened up a broad consultation. Go to Let’s Talk
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