Our Fundy Baykeeper, Matt Abbott, told CBC News he will be closely monitoring an impending court case involving New Brunswick-based aquaculture company Northern Harvest Sea Farms. The company, which has licenses to operate nine salmon farms on the Bay of Fundy, is alleged to have violated section 15 of New Brunswick’s Pesticides Control Act, which […]
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Water levels have reached record highs in southern New Brunswick as flooding along the St. John River continues to intensify into its second week. In the Greater Saint John area, the river has swelled to approximately 5.7 metres, well above the region’s flood stage of 4.2 m and rivaling levels of the historic 1973 flood.
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Listen to Joan Kuyek, a mining analyst from Ottawa, and Larry Wuest, a local environmental researcher living near the proposed Sisson mine, as they outline crucial questions that remain unanswered about the huge open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mine and tailings dam proposed to be built on the headwaters of the pristine Nashwaak River watershed. In
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Officials say flood waters in Fredericton have already reached the historical levels of the 2008 flood, and that communities in the lower St. John River basin are likely in for even higher levels yet. During a media briefing on Tuesday, officials with the New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization warned that people in communities downriver, such
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The transition to an energy-efficient economy would create more than 25,000 full-time jobs in New Brunswick and increase the provincial GDP by $4.9 billion over the next 13 years, according to a new study from Dunsky Energy Consulting. The study, The Economic Impact of Improved Energy Efficiency in Canada, calculates the carbon pollution we could
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Extreme flooding is currently affecting communities and families along the St. John River, with evacuations ordered for some areas in Edmundston, Bathurst, Fredericton and Maugerville. As part of our ongoing research into how New Brunswickers deal with and respond to extreme weather events, we want to hear how the flooding has affected you. Use
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In this breaking edition of EcoNews, our Executive Director Lois Corbett leads the effort to ensure a fair and prosperous transition away from coal-fired electricity in Canada as co-chair of a new federal task force; we bring you the key findings from Canada’s environment commissioner’s report on the failings of aquaculture regulation and enforcement from coast
Our Fundy Baykeeper says a new report from Canada’s top environmental watchdog reinforces longstanding concerns that the aquaculture industry in Atlantic Canada is severely lacking effective regulation and enforcement. Julie Gelfand, Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, tabled her 2018 Spring Reports on Tuesday, April 24, including a report on salmon farming in Atlantic
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, told media outlets that the Just Transition Task Force will have coal workers’ backs, and that the transition away from coal-fired electricity will create more job opportunities for workers and communities in the fast-growing renewable energy sector. Corbett was in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 25 as Environment and Climate Change
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 April 2018 OTTAWA — The Conservation Council’s Executive Director, Lois Corbett, has been appointed by the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Hon. Catherine McKenna, as the co-chair of the Just Transition Task Force for coal workers and communities. Created in response to the federal government’s commitment to
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