On July 16, we — Olivia, Aliza and Karyn — travelled out to visit the Nashwaak watershed and learn more about the Conservation Council’s Freshwater Protection Program. We’d all been enjoying our summer so far at Conserver House, but we were excited for our first work adventure out of the office — a day on […]
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Three things to watch for in a Premiers-Lead Canadian Energy Strategy Premiers are expected to release their Canadian Energy Strategy at this week’s Council of the Federation meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Established in 2012, the Canadian Energy Strategy Working Group is co-chaired by Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Paul Davis, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, Alberta
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The Auditor General of New Brunswick says 80 per cent of all the wood cut from Crown forests in the past two decades have been harvested by clear cut. “Clearcut is running consistently around 80%, whereas in the area of selective or partial cut, there is a decline from 20% to roughly 10% in more
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On Tuesday, June 23, Auditor General Kim MacPherson released Volume II of her 2015 Auditor General Report, which included two chapters related to forest management. Read the full report, or check out our response. Below are some highlights and key findings from the report as well as quotable quotes pulled from the document and the
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With the world watching last week, Canada had an opportunity to prove it was ready to do its fair share in the global fight against climate change. Instead, the federal government released its latest climate commitments to little fanfare, with European-based Climate Action Tracker rating them as “inadequate,” its lowest possible ranking. On Friday, May
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Executive Director Lois Corbett spoke with APTN National News this week about the use of glyphosate in New Brunswick’s public forest. Watch the story here. Glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most widely-used herbicides in the world, was recently classified as a probable cancer-causing chemical by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch
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Our pretty Acadian forest flowers are about to bloom! You won’t want to miss them like you won’t want to miss your chance to have a say on our forest! New Brunswickers are busy collecting signatures to our petition for our forest. The deadline to pass in petitions has been extended to Earth Day, April
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Newspaper L’Acadie Nouvelle reported on the Conservation Council’s call for the provincial government to end the spraying of glyphosates on the Crown forest after an arm of the World Health Organization classified the widely-used herbicide as a probable cancer-causing chemical. Read the article here. On Wednesday, March 25, the Conservation Council issued a press release
A herbicide sprayed yearly and in large quantities on New Brunswick forests was recently classified as a probable cancer-causing chemical by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization. The decision was published in the journal, Lancet Oncology. Glyphosate, sold under various trade names including Roundup, Vision, and
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Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, spoke to media this week following statements from Premier Brian Gallant that the wood allotment for private industry as laid out in the controversial 2014 forestry strategy will not change. Facing heavy questioning from opposition on the forestry file, Gallant told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, March 19 that the
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