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Celebrity Chef says Atlantic Canadian Cuisine is the key to saving rural communities

After working for two-years as a chef in New York restaurants, Atlantic Canadian Chef Michael Smith took a leap of faith and started his own traditional food experience in Prince Edward Island that now has customers reserving flights to the remote island just to get a taste. Now one of Atlantic Canada’s most famous Chefs […]

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Join our Summer Solstice Party

CCNB Blog, Webinars & Events / Corey Robichaud

Mark your calendars! All are invited to the Conservation Council’s Summer’s Here Party at Conserver House on Thursday, June 23rd. Celebrate the summer solstice and an indefinite fracking moratorium with fellow nature lovers and take a stroll around our blooming pollinator garden. Enjoy a barbecue complete with veggie options (of course) as you chat with

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CCNB on Premier Gallant’s cabinet shuffle

Media Releases / Corey Robichaud

FREDERICTON — Lois Corbett, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, issued the following statement regarding Premier Gallant’s cabinet shuffle. “We congratulate the Premier as well as the new and returning cabinet ministers after today’s shuffle. We look forward to seeing this government take bold and innovative measures to protect our air, land, and

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EcoNews: Lovable lynxes, solar soaring and bye-bye Fracking

CCNB Blog, EcoNews / Corey Robichaud

This #MeowMonday edition of EcoNews features adorable photos of the Lynx kittens found near Fredericton and the fabulous news on a record-breaking year for renewable energy investment and the continued fracking moratorium. We report on the great ideas that came out of a recent town hall meeting on climate change and energy solutions and invite

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CCNB’s Lois Corbett on NB government’s decision to extend fracking moratorium indefinitely

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Fredericton, N.B. – Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s Executive Director, Lois Corbett, was quoted in a recent CTV Atlantic News story applauding NB government’s decision to extend the fracking moratorium indefinitely. “Today, New Brunswick joins jurisdictions all around the world in making the right decision,” said Corbett. Lois told CTV Atlantic News that the Gallant Government’s

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Conservation Council of New Brunswick says extending fracking moratorium is good public policy

Feature, Media Releases / Corey Robichaud

Fredericton, N.B. – The Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) welcomed the Gallant Government’s decision to extend the fracking moratorium in New Brunswick. Energy and Mines Minister Donald Arsenault responded to the Hydraulic Fracturing Commission’s February 26 report by announcing that the moratorium his government put in place in 2014 would be extended “indefinitely”. Stating

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Conservation Council of New Brunswick encouraged by GNB’s Climate Change Discussion Paper

Media Releases / Corey Robichaud

Fredericton, N.B. – The Conservation Council of New Brunswick says the Gallant Government’s discussion paper on climate change opens the door for a positive conversation in New Brunswick about how we can move toward a clean, green and lean economy. The discussion paper, released Wednesday, May 26th, by Minister of Environment Brian Kenny is designed

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Invest in Fredericton’s clean energy future and create jobs, citizens tell their federal MP

CCNB Blog / Corey Robichaud

Fredericton – Last night residents voiced their ideas for Fredericton’s renewable future at a public Town Hall for Canada’s Climate Action Plan, hosted by Federal Member of Parliament, Matt DeCourcey. Their recommendations included everything from investing in clean-energy projects for Fredericton, to retrofitting the city’s transportation system with green technology and developing a city-wide electric

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New Brunswick’s ongoing fight against glyphosate spraying on Crown forests

CCNB Blog / Corey Robichaud

Fredericton – It’s the fifth petition of its kind in just over a decade. But this time there are nearly 13,000 names signed by New Brunswickers who want the province to stop spraying public forests with glyphosate, the herbicide used in New Brunswick’s forestry industry and labelled last year as a probable carcinogen by the

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CCNB’s Tracy Glynn calls on NB government to end herbicide spraying in public forests

CCNB in the News / Corey Robichaud

Conservation Council of New Brunswick forest program director, Tracy Glynn, was featured in a Radio Canada International (RCI) story published on August 21st, on renewed calls to end the herbicide spraying in public forests in New Brunswick. “When we look around at our neighbours, Quebec banned herbicide spraying of its public forests in 2001, and it’s well

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Conservation Council of New Brunswick

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