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The Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott was featured in the Hakai magazine on April 7, 2017, where he said sea lice outbreaks are common on East Coast salmon farms. A half-million salmon died in the Bay of Fundy from sea lice outbreak in north Passamaquoddy Bay last summer. More than 240, 000 Salmon died from […]
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Just as I was watching the news about how President Trump’s plan to repeal health care got derailed by Congress, (hehe) a great new resource popped into my mailbox. Published by the American Environmental Law Institute, the paper, called Regulatory Reform in the Trump Era lays out, matter of factly, everything you need to know to
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A half-million salmon died in the Bay of Fundy from sea lice outbreak in north Passamaquoddy Bay last summer where Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott says sea lice problems have occurred in the past and will most likely continue. “There didn’t really seem to be a way to stop someone from essentially restarting an operation
Was last Summer’s sea lice outbreak in Passamaquoddy Bay preventable? Read More »
Wednesday’s budget allocated federal financing that could help the New Brunswick residents, farmers, businesses and entrepreneurs contribute to job creation and building a clean economy. Below are some highlights that caught our attention: Climate Change Investments to support Canada’s transition to a clean economy will flow through three distinct streams: Bilateral agreements: $9.2 billion will
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Twenty-five years ago, global leaders at the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro declared March 22 as the first World Water Day – one day a year where the world community focuses on protecting water. Living in a province blessed with nearly 60,000 kilometers of streams and rivers, 2,500 lakes and 5000 km of
World Water Day 2017: Write a love letter to New Brunswick’s rivers, lakes and streams! Read More »
FREDERICTON –The Conservation Council in collaboration with other Canadian environmental organizations, wrote to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on March 7, 2017, thanking the entire membership of the Standing Committee on for its report presented to the House of Commons on February 24, 2017 on the review of changes made in 2012
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FREDERICTON –The Conservation Council, in collaboration with Canadian environmental organizations, wrote to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on March 7, 2017, thanking the entire membership of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for their report presented to the House of Commons on February 24, 2017, on
Weeks after we requested that the East Energy review start anew, Conservation Council’s Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott spoke with Simon Delattre of l’Acadie Nouvelle where he applauded the National Energy Board decision to restart the East Energy from the ground up. “The process was broken. All decisions were suspect, forming a new committee was the
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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Conservation Council of New Brunswick forest program director, Tracy Glynn, was featured in a CBC story about the release of a new report by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health (OCMOH). “It confirms our worst fears that New Brunswick is [using glyphosate], more than any other province, at a more intense rate in forestry,” said
NB uses more glyphosate in forestry than anywhere else in Canada Read More »
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