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Help Protect the Bay of Fundy: November is Membership Month at CCNB!
Are you a member yet? With your membership, we amplify your voice on the issues that matter to you like protecting the Bay of Fundy. Once again it is membership month at the Conservation Council of...
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New Brunswick faces and places featured in Twelve Canadians web series
Blog author: Stephanie Merrill, Director of the Freshwater Protection Program This past summer, Dave Kattenberg, director and producer of a feature series Twelve Canadians, contacted us at the...
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Conservation Council Statement on Oil Activity in the Gulf of St Lawrence
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick is disappointed by the recent decision by the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board opening the door to offshore drilling in the Gulf of St...
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17th Annual Musquash Paddle – July 18th
Fundy Baykeeper invites you to participate in a 10-km (6 mile) canoe or kayak paddle down the Musquash Estuary on Saturday July 18th at 2:30 pm. This fun event allows you to meander down the river and...
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Sensitive Marine Ecosystems Threatened by Energy East’s ‘Aquatic Pipeline’
New Report Shows Energy East Pipeline A Massive Threat to Atlantic Canada and U.S. Marine Resources Canadian Groups Call on Federal Government to Reject Pipelines, As New U.S.Led Campaign Calls for...
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New report shows Energy East pipeline a massive threat to the Bay of Fundy...
Canadian Groups Call on Federal Government to Reject Pipelines, As New U.S.Led Campaign Calls for National Tar Sands Dilbit Tanker Ban July 26, 2016, Saint John—A new report released today by the US –...
View ArticleIt’s not whether there will be a spill, but when: CCNB Fundy Baykeeper on...
On July 26, 2016, Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’ Fundy Baykeeper, was quoted in the Journal Metro de Montreal following the release of an NRDC report that’s sounding the alarm on a massive...
View ArticleCCNB on report calling for tanker moratorium on Atlantic waters
On July 26, 2016, Matt Abbott, the Conservation Council’ Fundy Baykeeper, was quoted in a Canadian Press article picked up by the Toronto Star, CTV and the Globe and Mail, following the release of an...
View ArticleNB uses more glyphosate in forestry than anywhere else in Canada
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)....
View ArticleIncreased oil tanker traffic will impact fisheries
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...
View Article“It was the right decision. The process was broken,” says CCNB Fundy...
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...
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Conservation Council applauds report from Standing Committee on Fisheries and...
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,...
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World Water Day 2017: Write a love letter to New Brunswick’s rivers, lakes...
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...
View ArticleWas last Summer’s sea lice outbreak in Passamaquoddy Bay preventable?
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...
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Conservation Council Federal Budget 2017 Highlights
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...
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The facts on regulatory reform under Trump
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...
View ArticleSalmon farms as “disease incubators”
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...
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Public invited to comment on Expert Panel for the Review of Environmental...
Last week, the Expert Panel for the Review of Environmental Assessment Processes report, Building Common Ground: A New Vision for Impact Assessment in Canada, was released. The Report sets out...
View ArticleConservation Council applauds Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans...
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...
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Not the “final nail” in the Energy East coffin, but a step in the right...
The Conservation Council’s Executive Director says the climate change impacts of large pipeline projects should always be factored into their review process, but noted the addition of a greenhouse gas...
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