glyphosate – CCNB

EcoNews — Feds fail to consider glyphosate risks, pushing energy fairness forward and fixing fossil fuel pricing flaws

Kyle Reid — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:36:55 +0000

In this edition of EcoNews, we bring you expert advice to save energy and make home comfort more affordable and examine a major court ruling on glyphosate that could help protect our health and environment.

2023 Hotspots for Herbicide Spraying in N.B.

Conservation Council of New Brunswick — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:18:37 +0000

The map showing where New Brunswick forests will be sprayed with herbicides during summer 2023 is now available. Our team is poring over the map to help New Brunswickers identify the major spraying hotspots this summer. Stay tuned to this page for more maps showing spraying hotspots across the province and within our watersheds.

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Investigate glyphosate connection to mystery brain disease: Neurologist

Jon MacNeill — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 14:59:16 +0000

The neurologist who first raised the possibility of a mysterious neurological disease in New Brunswick is now urging the federal government to test the environment for glyphosate, suspecting the widely-used herbicide is connected to the disease cluster in the Moncton and Acadian Peninsula areas.

What We’re Reading: Glyphosate, Nematodes and The Nervous System

Jon MacNeill — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:52:00 +0000

The body of evidence showing glyphosate’s potential negative effects on human health continues to grow.Two recent scientific studies show the chemical—the main active ingredient in herbicides used widely in New Brunswick—infiltrates the human brain and can affect an animal’s nervous system, respectively.One study, published this summer in Journal of Neuroinflammation…

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We Are All Treaty People

Corey Robichaud — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:00:20 +0000

Today (Friday, Sept. 30), is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. September was chosen as it’s the time of year Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools. The day honours the lost children and survivors of residential schools and is intended for recognition and reflection upon the intergenerational trauma inflicted on survivors, their families…

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Glyphosate Spraying Up 30% On Crown Forest Since 2005

Jon MacNeill — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:30:40 +0000

Think there is more herbicide spraying happening in your neck of the woods these days? If you live near Crown land, you’re right—by a significant margin.Glyphosate-based herbicide spraying on New Brunswick’s Crown forest is up 30 per cent compared to what was sprayed 17 years ago, according to data from the National Forestry Database and GeoNB.The biggest forestry companies are slated to spray 16…

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Monarchs Migrate To IUCN’s Endangered Red List

Olivia Bates — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:04:53 +0000

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature listed the iconic monarch butterfly as endangered globally on July 21, citing threats to its habitat from climate change, extreme weather and deforestation.The IUCN is the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network made up of hundreds of members, government, non-government and indigenous peoples around the globe dedicated to…

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Send Your #StopSpraying Letter

Corey Robichaud — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:23:00 +0000

Use our letter-writing tool to tell your MLA, Premier Holt, Minister Lepage and all party leaders to ban the spraying of our forest. Our pre-written letter will get you started, but we encourage you to add your comments on spraying and large-scale clearcutting and how it has affected you.Want to help more? Share this campaign with friends and family to let them know you care or are concerned with…

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“Nature Is Our Best Neighbour”

Jon MacNeill — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:45:07 +0000

Conservation Council and partners celebrate new protected natural areas, push Minister to keep going on forestry reform “Nature is our best neighbour— but we can’t go into its house and clearcut it and spray it and strip mine it,” our Executive Director, Lois Corbett…

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Three Strikes You’re Out! For Bayer

Lois Corbett — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:04:05 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused two bids brought by Bayer to appeal previous decisions that its glyphosate products like Roundup cause cancer. On June 27, the justices turned away a Bayer appeal, leaving in place a lower court decision upholding an $87 million judgment awarded in a lawsuit in California to Alberta and Alva Pilliod, who were diagnosed with cancer after spraying Roundup products…

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