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Our climate change and health special edition of EcoAlert Magazine is out!

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This climate change and health special edition of EcoAlert Magazine shines a light on climate change’s lesser-known public health consequences, guides you through our 2nd Annual Eco Buildings Tour, celebrates the passage of Canada’s new Fisheries Act, and gives you the latest environmental news on topics such as Premier Higgs’ plan to end the moratorium […]

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‘It’s an indication of a corporate agenda’: Conservation Council’s Lois Corbett on Rob Cumberland firing

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“I think it’s an indication of a corporate agenda. If your business is about making money out of pulp and paper products, and the widespread use of glyphosate, then Rod is a problem for you. If you’re a corporate guy, you would ask ‘Why don’t we just fire the guy?’” Corbett told journalist Bruce Livesey in his July 11 story. 

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EcoNews Special Edition — Our shared legacy, a win for climate action, a rousing speech, and Great Moms & Great Trees

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In this special edition of EcoNews, we share something we’ve been anxious to let out: your Conservation Council’s big win at NB Power’s Energy Efficiency Excellence Awards this week; plus, the wait is finally over: hard copies of The Great Trees of New Brunswick 2nd Edition are here, get this must-have book for your home

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“If you give me a number, we’ll get them!” Read Corbett’s May Day speech

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Nearly 100 New Brunswickers gathered at King’s Square in Saint John on May Day to demand that J.D. Irving stop spraying Crown land with glyphosate-based herbicides. It was an inspiring day with New Brunswickers young and old, Anglophone and Francophone, First Nation and settler coming together for smarter, 21st-century forest management practices. In case you

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“How many letters will it take?” Photos from the rally against JD Irving’s citizen-funded glyphosate spraying program

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New Brunswickers from all walks of life gathered in Saint John on May Day (May 1) to call on J.D. Irving to stop its citizen-funded herbicide spraying program on Crown land. Citizens met at King’s Square, some dressed in creative costumes of woodland critters, to hear from several speakers, including Wolastoq Grand Chief Ron Tremblay

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EcoNews — Send your letter for climate action, floods in the changing climate, supporting strong environmental assessments, and oh so many upcoming events

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In this edition of EcoNews, we invite you to use our helpful letter-writing tool to call on Premier Blaine Higgs to get serious about climate solutions; we share some thoughts from our Freshwater Campaigner about flooding in our changing climate; we share with you our submission to the senate hearing on Bill C-69 about the

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EcoNews — Fracking follies, Eco-Heroes on set, and beating plastic pollution on Land and Sea

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In this edition of EcoNews, we bring you an informative commentary from our friend Jim Emberger about the oil and gas industry’s penchant for over-promising, under-delivering, and racking up loads of debt (and environmental messes) in the process; we bring you a breakdown of a new forestry model proposed for Nova Scotia that would see

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Nova Scotia makes first steps toward ‘ecological forestry’ triad model

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In the summer of 2017, the provincial government in Nova Scotia appointed Professor William Lahey, a former deputy environment minister and current president of the University of King’s College, to lead a long-sought review of forestry practices in the Bluenose Province. Lahey released his report — containing 163 conclusions, 45 recommendations, and involving seven advisors

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