Four-time ECMA award-winning jazz band Gypsophilia will perform at The Playhouse in a fundraiser for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. This 7-piece instrumental band mixes hot jazz with klezmer, funk, and world rhythms. Gypsophilia will perform a live show for us at The Fredericton Playhouse on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7:30pm. Get your favourite seat today […]
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Saint John — The Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott was quoted in a CBC article published on August 12, 2016 on the expected increase in tanker traffic in the Bay of Fundy if the National Energy Board approves Energy East pipeline project. During the NEB panel sessions held in Saint John earlier that week,
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Yesterday, the president of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick was quoted in two articles, in which she warned the Legislative Assembly’s select committee on climate change that New Brunswick has missed clean energy opportunities more than once because of the province’s obsession with the oil and gas industry. Global News and CHSJ both reported
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The Conservation Council’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions, Dr. Louise Comeau, was quoted in article published on August 12, 2016 in the Globe and Mail on the federal government’s push to accelerate phasing-out of coal power as part of its pan-Canadian climate strategy. “It has to be managed, but managed it must be,” said
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Have you heard of Iron & Earth? It’s an organization led by Canada’s oil sands workers that came together in the spring of 2015 when oil prices began to drop and workers were facing mass layoffs in the Alberta oil sands. The workers, including boiler makers, electricians, pipe fitters and iron workers, want to
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By Jimy Beltran Apple season is coming up soon so get your baskets and recipes ready because this year’s harvest will bring the best apples in recent years! Because of our hot summer, growers expect to have their harvest ready for your pies and picking pleasure a bit earlier than the traditional NB season, usually
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We’ve had an unusually busy August. You’ll see in your sweet summertime edition of EcoNews a bit of extra reading — perhaps best enjoyed at your cottage, on your porch or at the beach! In this super-sized EcoNews, you are invited to mark your calendars for the 5 Days for the Forests, and attend a
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The Select Committee on Climate Change, an all-party committee of the Legislative Assembly, is responsible for consulting the public and interested stakeholders on the issues raised in the discussion guide entitled Building a Stronger New Brunswick Response to Climate Change. The purpose of the discussion guide is to help begin a dialogue on how New Brunswickers
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Imagine one of the last remaining right whales in the Bay of Fundy – both its head and body trapped and twisted-up in loop after loop of thin sharp polyblend fishing line cutting into its skin. This was the scene near in the waters near Campobello Island last Saturday, when one of the last remaining
Today in Fredericton, the National Energy Board panel heard from representatives from the communities of Edmundston, Plaster Rock and Upper Miramichi; the Miramichi Valley Business Association; the Government of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council. Concerns raised today include: The community of Edmundston recently passed a formal resolution that strongly opposes any
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