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Water Canada: Your 2014 guide to the latest in provincial and territorial water policy.

Posted on July 11, 2014 Written by Elizabeth Hendriks and Lindsay Telfer Canada’s water challenges and the ways provinces and territories address those challenges can be so similar yet entirely unique. Each jurisdiction’s positions on issues of supply, conservation, and management will determine what regulations and policies are priorities. While it may be difficult to […]

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CCNB presents research on sea-bottom pollution under salmon farm

CCNB in the News / Matthew Abbott

The Chronical Herald covers a public presentation by CCNB’s Science Advisor Inka Milewski concerning the recovery of the sea-bottom at an abandoned salmon farm in Shelburne Harbour, NS. “It’s not a good news story, because we don’t have recovery,” Milewski said this week in Shelburne. … “It’s the organic material, primarily the feces of the

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Conservation Council video shows forest loss in New Brunswick

CCNB Blog, Feature, Forest Conservation / Tracy Glynn

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has released a short video that shows remarkable forest loss in New Brunswick from 2000 to 2013. The animated maps reveal that the picture province is no longer home to large intact forest areas. The Conservation Council is concerned that the New Brunswick’s forest strategy will further degrade the

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Meet Mark!

CCNB Blog, Community / Stephanie Merrill

Meet Mark, our newest addition to the Conservation Council! Mark has stepped into the role of Buy Local NB project development and marketing officer: I was raised in Keswick Ridge, a small farming community located just outside of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Growing up, buying local wasn’t a movement or novelty; it was simply part of

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Global News: Forestry agreement signing postponed

CCNB in the News, Forest Conservation / Tracy Glynn

CCNB’s Tracy Glynn weighs in on the postponing of the signing of the forestry agreement. Global’s Laura Brown reports.

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Groups and First Nations in five provinces demand a stop to oil and gas activities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Media Releases / Matthew Abbott

Oceans’ Week starts with call for Gulf-wide moratorium and arms-length review panel Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, June 9, 2014 – Fishermen, environmentalists, First Nations, and others kicked off International Oceans’ Week with a demand to the federal, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick and Quebec governments to immediately place a moratorium on

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Celebrating the air we breathe

CCNB Blog / Stephanie Merrill

Generally the air quality in New Brunswick is good. The level of several pollutants have gradually decreased over the past 25 years, and this means that people have fewer air quality-related health effects. However improvements have flat-lined somewhat in the past 10 years. Although annual averages of pollutants in New Brunswick are below the national

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CCNB responds to Climate Change Action Plan

CCNB Blog, Climate and Energy / Stephanie Merrill

The New Brunswick government released its 2014-2020 Climate Change Action Plan without much fuss on Monday June 2, 2014. First, what’s great about this plan: We have a plan; It includes a good section on adapting to climate change, evaluating the risk of the climate changes we know are coming, including more extreme rain and

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Your Support Will Help Us Grow!

Feature, Webinars & Events / Tracy Glynn

Dear Supporter, What an amazing spring! As we turn our minds (and hands) towards contemplating the warmer spring sunshine (especially after the winter we’ve just experienced), I wanted to write to you with exciting news from the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. Your Board of Directors was successful in hiring an experienced Executive Director, Lois

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Increasing wood harvesting on New Brunswick Crown lands: What may we be missing?

CCNB Blog, Forest Conservation / Tracy Glynn

A guest commentary by Ron Smith A recent decision by the New Brunswick government to enter into guaranteed wood supply contracts with forest companies, also referred to as the New Forest Strategy, has generated arguably unprecedented debate in the public arena. Much of this debate has focused on a lack of transparency or consultation. Until

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