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Background Materials on N.B.’s carbon pricing system

Attention News Editors: Here is some background that may be helpful in reporting on Environment and Local Government Minister Serge Rousselle’s comments today about a carbon-pricing system for New Brunswick: To date, Canadian jurisdictions that have announced or implemented a system for pricing carbon include Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British […]

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Conservation Council statement on release of 2017 Ice Storm Review

CCNB Blog, Feature, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council, today issued the following statement: “The Clerk of the Executive Council’s review of the January 2017 Ice Storm, released today, shines a spotlight on just what more works need to be done to protect our homes, families and towns and villages in the face of increasing numbers of

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Ice storm review report to be released tomorrow

CCNB Blog / Jon MacNeill

The January 2017 ice storm review report will be released tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 18). Judy Wagner, clerk of the Executive Council and author of the report, will release the review with Public Safety Minister Denis Landry, NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas and New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization director Greg MacCallum at 11:30 a.m. in Neguac.

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Comeau: carbon pricing just one tool in NB’s climate change toolkit

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Louise Comeau, the former Director of Climate and Energy Solutions at the Conservation Council and current director of the University of New Brunswick’s Environment and Sustainability Development Research Centre, told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in an Aug. 1 article that New Brunswick won’t hit its climate change goals without putting a price on carbon. Comeau

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“A good challenge” to government: Corbett on AG climate change report

CCNB Blog, CCNB in the News / Jon MacNeill

Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, appeared in stories by several media outlets responding to the Auditor General’s report on climate change action in N.B. Corbett was quoted in articles by The Canadian Press, the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, a pair of CBC articles (Legislate reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions in N.B., says auditor general, and Conservation Council says

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We need to see plans: Corbett on release of AG’s climate change report

CCNB in the News, Climate and Energy, Climate and Jobs / Corey Robichaud

June 20, 2017 — New Brunswick Auditor General Kim MacPherson released the first volume of the 2017 New Brunswick Auditor General Report today, including an assessment of New Brunswick’s progress toward reducing greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change. Speaking to the Telegraph-Journal the day before the report came out, our Executive Director, Lois Corbett,

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Conservation Council reacts to Auditor General’s report on climate action in N.B.

CCNB Blog, Feature, Media Releases / Jon MacNeill

The Auditor General of New Brunswick, Kim MacPherson, has delivered a substantive review of the province’s climate change plan and what is needed to turn policy intentions into on-the-ground work to protect homes and communities from what she says “may be one of the greatest challenges for communities, governments and corporations in the coming decades.”

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Climate Change: A cabinet committee is necessary, according to an expert

CCNB in the News / Zachary Bourque

Louise Comeau, the Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, spoke with l’Acadie Nouvelle on Wednesday, August 17 about the recommendations she gave the Legislature’s Select Committee on Climate Change. Read the article here. She proposes the creation of a committee of the cabinet on climate change presided

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Louise Comeau on CCNB’s new Climate Action Plan featured in L’Acadie Nouvelle

CCNB in the News / Zachary Bourque

Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions Louise Comeau spoke with Jean-Marc Doiron of l’Acadie Nouvelle on ‘’NB can easily reduce its greenhouse gas pollution’’ on July 13. Read the article here. ‘’We have the 3rd highest rate of emissions per capita in Canada. Our buildings our getting older, which means that we have great

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Select Committee engages all NBers in growing the green economy

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

FREDERICTON — Establishing a Select Committee on Climate Change is an excellent step toward engaging all New Brunswickers in the important work of growing our economy and protecting our communities from extreme weather and sea level rise. The Legislative Assembly voted unanimously in support of a motion to establish the all-party committee on Friday, April

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