Awkward questions raised at investigation of RCMP actions at Rexton shale gas camp: “Why didn’t they care about the

Environment

Awkward questions raised at investigation of RCMP actions at Rexton shale gas camp: “Why didn’t they care about the crime scene?” (Part 1 of 3)

by Dallas McQuarrie

March 20, 2015

Blockade against shale gas on a highway in Rexton, NB in 2013. Photo from Nowhere Else To...

Environment

TransCanada grilled on Energy East pipeline’s risks to drinking water, rivers and the climate in Fredericton [video]

by Tracy Glynn

March 18, 2015

Maggie Connell of the Fredericton Chapter of the Council of Canadians raises concerns with TransCanada's Energy East...

Economy

Government hands over stewardship of Crown forest in Southern NB to J.D. Irving [video]

by Charles Theriault

March 7, 2015

Charles Theriault, of the docu-web project, Is Our Forest Really Ours, discusses the contract signed between the province of New Brunswick...

Canada

Majority of Energy East applicants want to talk about climate

by Cam Fenton for 350.org

March 4, 2015

Economists, students, teachers, farmers, unions among Canadians asking to be heard during pipeline review Toronto, ON - At least 65 per...

Environment

NB Anti-Shale Gas Alliance says Bill C-51 targets them and other dissenters [audio]

by From the Margins

March 4, 2015

The New Brunswick Anti Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA), a coalition of grassroots organizations in the province opposed to shale gas development,...

Environment

Maine residents oppose relaxing of environmental rules for J.D. Irving’s mine

by Connor Albers

March 2, 2015

Augusta – J.D. Irving, Ltd is facing more public opposition to its attempts to change environmental regulations, this time in neighbouring...

Environment

“We’re going to stop this pipeline:” grassroots Indigenous leaders

by Miles Howe for the Halifax Media Co-op

February 27, 2015

Ron Tremblay, former councillor for Tobique First Nation and member of Wolustuk Grand Council and Clayton Thomas...

*Opinion*

Time for fair monetary return from NB’s Crown forest

by Norval Balch

February 11, 2015

New Brunswick’s Crown land forests are obviously our most important natural resource, so it only makes sense to manage them so...

$NBers should have no regrets about fracking moratorium$

*Opinion*

NBers should have no regrets about fracking moratorium

by Jim Emberger

January 21, 2015

While Premier Gallant develops the government’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, shale gas supporters continue to voice their same one-theme message that...

$stopfrackingnow$

*Opinion*

Empowering communities from the bottom up: NB election was a referendum on shale gas

by Alex Bailey

January 2, 2015

Shale gas protest march in Fredericton in November 2012. Photo by Stephanie Merrill. The September 2014 New...

Rural