On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada Corporation announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in Cacouna, Que., as part of the Alberta-based company’s Energy East oil pipeline proposal. The company nixed the terminal due to a nearby nursing ground for the endangered Beluga whale. The Conservation Council issued a statement saying TransCanada had a responsibility […]
Our Forest Conservation campaigner, Tracy Glynn, appeared in the media this week following our call to phase out the use of herbicides in our Crown forest. Earlier this month, the International Centre for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate – the active ingredient in the herbicide sprayed annually in
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FREDERICTON — TransCanada Corporation has a moral responsibility to withdraw its Energy East project from the national review process now that significant changes have been made to the original oil pipeline proposal, says the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in
Newspaper L’Acadie Nouvelle reported on the Conservation Council’s call for the provincial government to end the spraying of glyphosates on the Crown forest after an arm of the World Health Organization classified the widely-used herbicide as a probable cancer-causing chemical. Read the article here. On Wednesday, March 25, the Conservation Council issued a press release
In just a couple weeks, thousands of Canadians will gather in Quebec City to march for a solution to climate change. Will you join them? Save the date: April 11, 2015. That’s the Saturday before some of Canada’s premiers are getting together for a special meeting on climate change. When they arrive, we want to
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A herbicide sprayed yearly and in large quantities on New Brunswick forests was recently classified as a probable cancer-causing chemical by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization. The decision was published in the journal, Lancet Oncology. Glyphosate, sold under various trade names including Roundup, Vision, and
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Living in New Brunswick, there is no way around it — we owe so many of our good, most cherished moments to our water. Think of rock-skipping competitions with yours friends by the brook growing up. Or navigating narrow trails to cast a few lines at your town’s prized fishing hole. Remember pond hockey in
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Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke to media this week following statements from Premier Brian Gallant that the wood allotment for private industry as laid out in the controversial 2014 forestry strategy will not change. Facing heavy questioning from opposition on the forestry file, Gallant told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, March 19 that the
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The Conservation Council has launched a petition and made it easy for you to send a letter to your MLA and Premier Brian Gallant on protecting our Acadian forest. Please return your petitions to us before the end of April. The petition and the letter asks our MLAs to support four actions for our forest:
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Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, sat down with CBC Fredericton Information Morning host Terry Seguin on March 12 to discuss how a carbon tax could be used as a fair and effective tool for reducing pollution in New Brunswick. You can listen to the entire interview here. We’ve pulled out some highlights below: Corbett talks
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