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Environmental Groups Ask NEB to Close Energy East Pipeline File

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

For Immediate Release May 13, 2015, Toronto – More than sixty groups across Canada are asking the National Energy Board (NEB) to close TransCanada’s Energy East application and keep it closed until the complete project application has been submitted to the regulator. Groups, including environmental, civic, arts, justice and peace organizations, sent their request in a […]

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Bay Keeper worries whales will be impacted by tankers

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Our Fundy Baykeeper, Matt Abbott, spoke with CBC News about the proposed expansion of the potash terminal in Saint John. The proposed expansion would see potash ship traffic in the Bay of Fundy double from 60 ships per year to more than 120. “As we increase traffic, it’s going to become more like jay-walking at rush hour

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Energy we can get behind: photos from Act on Climate

CCNB Blog, Feature / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

This weekend, a few staff members and volunteers with the Conservation Council hopped in a super-fuel-efficient vehicle and traveled to Quebec City for the Act on Climate March. What a powerful trip it was! At their most optimistic, organizers were hoping to get 12,000 people out in the streets. But Canadians’ passion for a clean

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Putting a price on pollution will be good for your pocketbook

CCNB Blog / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

This is no delayed April Fools joke — today a group of classical economists came out with a report saying it’s time for Canada’s provinces to put a price on carbon pollution, and if we do, our own pocketbooks will thank us. The report, The Way Forward: A Practical Approach to Reducing Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions,

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CCNB on keeping TransCanada accountable and sending Energy East back to the drawing board

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada Corporation announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in Cacouna, Que., as part of the Alberta-based company’s Energy East oil pipeline proposal. The company nixed the terminal due to a nearby nursing ground for the endangered Beluga whale. The Conservation Council issued a statement saying TransCanada had a responsibility

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Throwing darts at map won’t cut it: CCNB says TransCanada has moral duty to withdraw pipeline application

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

FREDERICTON — TransCanada Corporation has a moral responsibility to withdraw its Energy East project from the national review process now that significant changes have been made to the original oil pipeline proposal, says the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. On Thursday, April 2, TransCanada announced it had cancelled plans to build an export terminal in

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Commentary: Canada’s energy regulator completely broken

CCNB Blog / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

The following is a commentary written by Adam Scott, the Climate & Energy Program Manager with Environmental Defence, which originally appeared at The Hill Times Online on Monday, March 9. We post it here with permission from the author. By ADAM SCOTT TORONTO—The regulatory process that reviews energy projects in Canada has always had problems. But since

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CCNB applies for intervenor status in NEB’s Energy East regulatory hearing — Media roundup

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick appeared in several media outlets following the deadline for groups and individuals to apply to participate in the National Energy Board’s review of the proposed Energy East oil pipeline. Our Executive Director Lois Corbett and Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott appeared in a March 4 article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. Read

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CCNB’s Lois Corbett comments on province lagging behind greenhouse gas reduction targets

CCNB in the News / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Our executive director, Lois Corbett, appeared in a story by CBC New Brunswick’s Julianne Hazlewood about New Brunswick being on track to miss its greenhouse gas reduction targets. In the latest climate action plan, the province committed to reducing greenhouse gases to 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. While we were on track

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CCNB applies for intervenor status in review of proposed Energy East oil pipeline

Media Releases / Conservation Council of New Brunswick

FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has applied to be an intervenor in the National Energy Board’s review of the proposed Energy East oil pipeline. It is one of nearly 1,000 groups and individuals to apply to participate in the review of TransCanada Corporation’s proposal to build a 4,600-kilometre oil pipeline from the

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