How do you wash your hands if you don’t have any water? Emergency aid needed for communities in La Guajira
Editor’s note: NB Power sources coal from the Cerrejón coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. Read more here. How do ...
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New Brunswick approves J.D. Irving gypsum mine in Upham despite local concerns
The New Brunswick government has given a conditional approval to a J.D. Irving-owned gypsum mine near the Hammond River in ...
Water in New Brunswick: rights and the environment versus big business
Protestors at Standing Rock, North Dakota popularized the protest slogan “water is life” when they stood down an oil pipeline ...
Student Earth Day art show in Richibucto highlights water protection and opposition to forest spraying
"Water and air, the two essentials on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." Jacques Yves Cousteau Protection ...
Sackville councillors take aim at glyphosate spraying, but stop short of calling for a ban
Sackville Town Council passed a unanimous resolution on Oct. 10, 2017 expressing its opposition to the “indiscriminate spraying” of the herbicide ...
A new assault on our water resources
The Nashwaak River is one of the river bodies affected by the government of New Brunswick's ...
Saint John moving ahead with public-private partnership for its drinking water
Saint John city council is moving ahead with a public-private partnership (P3) for a new 100 million litre per day ...
The social licence dilemma for shale gas proponents in NB
A demonstration against shale gas at the NB Legislature in Fredericton in November 2011. In its ...
Just ignore the local impacts: EPA’s fracking report highlights known risks, but even more unknown dangers
Fredericton/Unceded Wolastoq Territory - For several days now, unconventional gas extraction lobbyists and right-wing media (which appears to include the ...
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