What bird in our forest sings a song that sounds like “Hey, free beer?” What tree’s tea was used to treat scurvy? What company controls most of our public forest? Save your answers for TREEvia, a special night of fundraising for the Conservation Council on Wednesday, March 11! Round up a team and enjoy a […]
The newspaper L’Acadie Nouvelle ran an article on Feb. 12 about the Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s call for TransCanada Corporation to reconsider the need for its proposed Energy East oil pipeline given the route and details of the project keep changing. CCNB’s call for TransCanada to reconsider the project was also mentioned in an editorial
CCNB calls for reconsideration of Energy East oil pipeline in L’Acadie Nouvelle Read More »
Slogging through the National Energy Board’s process can feel about as thick and gooped-up as the bitumen that TransCanada is proposing to push through its Energy East pipeline. The Conservation Council has put together a Step by Step Guide for getting through the application process to have a say on the proposed Energy East oil
Step by Step: How to apply to have a say on Energy East Read More »
FREDERICTON — A ground-breaking partnership between government agencies, recreational groups and environmental NGOs in New Brunswick has received a national award for helping people connect with nature and the outdoors. The groups responsible for ExploreEcoNB, an innovative mobile-mapping application, were presented with the Connected to the Community Award from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CTWA)
CCNB recognized as part of award-winning partnership for ecotourism app Read More »
Fredericton — Quebec environmental group, Centre Québécois du droit de l’environment (CQDE), and property owner France Lamonde sought an injunction in a federal court on Tuesday, Feb. 10, to suspend the National Energy Board hearings of the Energy East oil pipeline project for a lack of official documentation in French. The Conservation Council of New Brunswick supports this
New Brunswick Francophones deserve all TransCanada’s Energy East documents in French Read More »
Our Forest Conservation Coordinator, Tracy Glynn, was quoted in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in a story about the new forestry plan that ran on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Glynn spoke of the pressure governments face from forestry companies who want the ability to clear-cut in conservation forest and deer yards, buffer zones along streams and rivers, old forest,
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FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick says TransCanada Corporation has to head back to the drawing board to patch all the holes that have surfaced in its plans for the proposed Energy East oil pipeline. On Wednesday, Feb. 11, Montreal newspaper La Presse reported that the Alberta-based oil giant had ruled out Cacouna,
Forget the National Energy Board — It’s back to the drawing board for TransCanada Read More »
Money talks, and are we ever loving what it has to say these days. Over the last two years, a combined $50-billion has been divested from the global fossil fuel industry. That means today there is $50 billion less behind the coal, oil and gas companies whose actions threaten the future of our planet and
Let’s make fossil fuels history! Read More »
RELEVANT KNOWLDEGE or EXPERTISE TABLE 4 – Issue 7: The potential environmental and socio-economic effects of the proposed project. In the summers I work as a naturalist for a wildlife/whale-watching company based out of Granville Island, in Vancouver. Increased shipping activities will affect the whales in the area (especially the southern resident killer whales, which
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DIRECTLY AFFECTED TABLE 3 – Issue 1: The need for the Project. This request for Intervenor status in the NEB hearings on the Transmountain Pipeline Expansion is being made because it will have a direct impact on my life in at least three different ways. I would like to address Topic #1″Is there a need
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