Our Executive Director Lois Corbett busted out the red ink and had some fun with the Throne Speech delivered yesterday in the Legislature. Read it here. Make sure you scroll all the way through, it really gets going around Page 10… Oh, and here’s a link to our official response to yesterday’s speech. 🙂
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This special edition of EcoAlert will help you cut through the jargon and technicalities of international climate negotiations to understand: What the heck is COP21 in Paris? What’s it all about? What does the fight against climate change mean for me, our province, and Canada as a whole? In this issue: • the road to locally-made clean energy in
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FREDERICTON — The Conservation Council of New Brunswick is pleased to see the provincial government has included water, forests, climate change and local food as priority areas for the year ahead. The speech was delivered today by Lieutenant Governor Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau on behalf of Premier Brian Gallant’s government to mark the official opening of the
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The international news agency Reuters published an exclusive story on Irving Oil’s struggles to adequately control air pollution coming from its marine terminal in Saint John on November 11, 2015. The article referenced research commissioned by the Conservation Council in 2009 which showed lung cancer rates in the city were 50 percent higher than in
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A broad cross-section of 100 environmental, business and community interests, including the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and many participants in the current National Energy Board (NEB) reviews, are asking Prime Minister Trudeau, before heading to Paris, to keep his promise and stop the costly, broken pipeline reviews, including Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain and TransCanada’s
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CCNB staff spoke with media after TransCanada announced it has cancelled plans to build a second export terminal for its Energy East bitumen pipeline proposal in Quebec. In a Nov. 6 article in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, Matt Abbott, the Fundy Baykeeper warned that a tanker spill in the Bay of Fundy could irreparably damage
FREDERICTON — Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, issued the following statement about TransCanada Corporation’s decision to cancel plans for an export terminal in Quebec related to its Energy East bitumen pipeline proposal: “From where we’re standing, the announcement today by TransCanada is much ado about nothing: it does
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Membership month at CCNB is all about encouraging long time and new supporters alike to be part of our work. By becoming a member, a monthly donor or renewing your membership you join hundreds of your fellow New Brunswickers who help us speak up for the environment, advocate for rewarding clean energy jobs, and find
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On Wednesday, Sept. 23 the Conservation Council submitted a questionnaire to all candidates in each of New Brunswick’s 10 federal ridings. The questionnaire asked candidates to state their position on a range of environmental, health, climate and energy issues. The results from participants are below. Candidates from all parties were given the same time to complete
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Here’s a little-known fact: New Brunswick has helped lead climate change action plans before. At a time when governments across the continent were running away from doing anything on climate change, it was NB which tabled the motion to create the first carbon reduction targets at the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian
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