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Herbicide spraying within municipal drinking water supply areas

CCNB Blog, Forest Conservation, Freshwater Protection / Jon MacNeill

As forestry companies continue to spray glyphosate-based herbicides across the province this month, we’ve taken an in-depth look at exactly how much spraying is happening within the drinking water supply areas of some New Brunswick communities. Here’s a breakdown of what we found, using the publicly-available data at forestinfo.ca: Want the spraying to stop? Our representatives in […]

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Glyphosate meeting leaves questions unanswered

CCNB Blog, Forest Conservation / Jon MacNeill

Upwards of 150 people attended an open house in Petitcodiac last night (Wednesday, Sept. 6) to get answers about the use of glyphosate-based herbicides in the region. The open house was organized by J.D. Irving Ltd after a meeting scheduled in August between the forestry company and village council was cancelled by Mayor Jerry Gogan,

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OMISTA Chews & Brews with Brent Mason: 5 Days for the Forest event

CCNB Blog / Corey Robichaud

Local folk ‘n roll musician and storyteller Brent Mason will play some tunes over tasty appetizers made with locally-sourced ingredients by Crowne Plaza chefs. A cash bar featuring local beer and ciders will also be available. Tickets: $15/door. Click here to find the event on Facebook! Buy tickets now: When: Thursday, September 28 at 8 p.m.

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Matt Betts on conserving forest biodiversity Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7PM

CCNB Blog, Forest Conservation / Corey Robichaud

Join us in welcoming home New Brunswick-born Dr. Matt Betts as he delivers a talk about how and why we should protect forest biodiversity. An award-wining environmental scientist professor in the Faculty of Forest Science & Society at Oregon State University and founding member of the Forest Biodiversity Research Network, Matt studies the ways that landscape and patterns

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Moncton mayor leads charge to end herbicide spraying near Turtle Creek watershed

CCNB Blog / Corey Robichaud

The City of Moncton is calling on the province to stop spraying glyphosate-based herbicides near the Turtle Creek watershed, a natural reservoir supplying drinking water to more than 100,000 residents within Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview, the CBC reports. “It is our opinion that aerial herbicide spraying should be considered a restricted activity under the Watershed

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EcoNews — Where our forest is being sprayed this summer

CCNB Blog, EcoNews / Corey Robichaud

In this edition of EcoNews, we show you where our forest is being sprayed this summer with a breakdown of herbicide spray hotspots near popular N.B. lakes and which forestry companies are doing the most spraying; we make it easy for you to join New Brunswickers who have already written their MLA this week to

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Where our forest is being sprayed this summer

CCNB Blog, Feature, Forest Conservation / Jon MacNeill

The map showing where the forests will be sprayed with herbicides during summer 2017 is now available. Forestry companies spray large swaths of clearcuts with products containing glyphosate — a chemical linked to cancer and a slew of other health problems — beginning this month through Sept. 30. The full 2017 spray map is available

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Species in initially intact forest landscapes are particularly vulnerable to forest loss

CCNB Blog, Feature, Forest Conservation / Matthew Betts

This guest blog post by Matthew Betts was originally posted by Nature, Ecology & Evolution. I’ve spent the better part of the past 15 years studying whether there are thresholds in habitat loss below which species and associated ecosystem processes decline abruptly. In an era when human population exceeds 7 billion and habitat in many

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EcoNews — What you need to know about blue-green algae this summer

CCNB Blog, CCNB in the News, EcoNews / Corey Robichaud

In this edition of EcoNews, we bring you our primer on blue-green algae after the Department of Health issued an advisory for Nashwaak Lake earlier this week; we update you on the latest news regarding the tragic deaths of north Atlantic right whales off the waters of N.B.; share encouraging news about a community in

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Canada’s pesticide regulator “captured by industry”

CCNB Blog, CCNB in the News, Feature / Jon MacNeill

The Conservation Council’s Executive Director, Lois Corbett, was quoted in a July 26 National Observer article about Canada’s problematic pesticide management agency. In the article, investigative journalist Bruce Livesey (a Fredericton High School graduate in the 80s) takes an in-depth look at the failings of Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to protect people,

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