Energy East – CCNB

EcoNews — Send your letter for climate action, floods in the changing climate, supporting strong environmental assessments, and oh so many upcoming events

Corey Robichaud — Thu, 02 May 2019 12:17:22 +0000

In this edition of EcoNews, we invite you to use our helpful letter-writing tool to call on Premier Blaine Higgs to get serious about climate solutions; we share some thoughts from our Freshwater Campaigner about flooding in our changing climate; we share with you our submission to the senate hearing on Bill C-69 about the importance of robust environmental assessments; we bring you photos from…

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Ship has sailed on weak environmental assessments: Conservation Council on Bill C-69

Jon MacNeill — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 06:02:37 +0000

(Saint John) The Conservation Council of New Brunswick told the Standing Senate Committee holding hearings on Bill C-69 that the ship has sailed on the era of weak environmental assessments in Canada. Scott Kidd, a longtime member of the Conservation Council with a background in environmental law, spoke on the council’s behalf as the Standing Senate Committee for Energy…

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Relief and hope: Conservation Council reacts to end of Energy East

Jon MacNeill — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:30:56 +0000

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick responded to news of TransCanada’s decision to cancel its proposed Energy East diluted bitumen pipeline with both a sigh of relief for New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy and coastal communities so dependent upon it, and hope that this decision will spur New Brunswick and Canada to aggressively go after the low-hanging fruit of construction jobs ready to be had…

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A big win for the Bay of Fundy

Jon MacNeill — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 13:03:34 +0000

Great news for all who love our Bay of Fundy and New Brunswick’s beautiful freshwater rivers, lakes and streams. TransCanada has announced it is abandoning its Energy East oil sands pipeline — a project we here at the Conservation Council have been working hard to stop for the past five years. We want to thank you, our members and supporters, for being right there with us from day one.

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Turn the page on Energy East and set our sights on clean energy construction jobs, says Corbett

Corey Robichaud — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:28:17 +0000

Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in a story published Sept. 9 that the promise of thousands of construction jobs for New Brunswickers isn’t dead — it’s just not in building pipelines. “I think if we turned the page and got serious about investing in the new economy, the new types of jobs in energy efficiency and renewables, we would create those jobs…

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September EcoNews: All about spray, schools and salmon

Jon MacNeill — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:45:13 +0000

In this edition of EcoNews, we show you which communities’ drinking water supply zones are being sprayed with glyphosate-based herbicides; bring you an update on Petitcodiac residents’ quest to end the controversial spraying in their region; give you a rundown of Cooke Aquaculture’s recent massive salmon farm failure; bring you our reaction to the latest news regarding the proposed Energy East…

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NEB gets failing grade on Bay of Fundy impacts, says Corbett

Leah Meyer — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:19:07 +0000

Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, told media outlets this week she is pleased the National Energy Board (NEB), for the first time ever, will look at the big picture of how carbon pollution will impact our changing climate when reviewing the proposed Energy East bitumen pipeline, but said the NEB got it flat wrong when it comes to the project’s potential impact on the Bay of Fundy.

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Homes evacuated after 1,200 barrels of crude spills in rural Texas

Leah Meyer — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:06:34 +0000

Families were forced to leave their homes after an estimated 1,200 barrels of crude oil spilled from a pipeline rupture in Bastrop County, TX, on Thursday, July 13. Local news media reported that an excavator accidentally cut the Magellan’s Longhorn pipeline shortly before 9 a.m. CST while working on a section of the pipe. The company, Magellan Midstream Partners, said in a release that no…

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Pipeline companies are permitted to keep integrity digs secret from the public

Leah Meyer — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:03:35 +0000

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has stopped requiring pipeline companies to publish the geographic coordinates of pipeline repairs, DeSmog Canada has discovered. Until recently, the NEB openly posted the GPS coordinates of pipeline repairs. In the last few months, however, the NEB has quietly allowed companies to keep that information from the public. According to the federal…

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EcoNews — Your Canada Day, hit the beach edition

Corey Robichaud — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:34:33 +0000

In this Canada Day edition of EcoNews, we get you ready to beat the heat and hit the beach with stories about: the first-ever Canada Beach Report and what it tells us about the health of our cherished waterways; our take on the Auditor General’s report on climate change action in N.B.; highlights from a busy couple of weeks in the media where we commented on marine tanker traffic…

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