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Take Action

Take Action - NB

• Public Forum - Shale Gas Development: Environmental and community impacts, Presented by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, August 5 , 2010
• Press Release: Gypsum Quarry Approval Threatens Watershed And Endangered Species, Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Chapter, February 19, 2010
• Petition to Ban Uranium Exploration and Mining in New Brunswick, Youth Action Group, April 2, 2009
• Comprehensive Review of Environmental Impacts Needed for New Sisson Brook Mine, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, September 25, 2008
• Campaign for a nuclear free New Brunswick, January 31, 2008
• DO YOU KNOW about URANIUM...in NEW BRUNSWICK???, ASK your MLA, Conservation Council of New-Brunswick - SouthEast Chapter, January 17, 2008
• Stop Uranium Mining in New Brunswick, sign the petition, Support Citizens Against Radioactive Emissions, January 16, 2008

Take Action - Canada

• Support legislation to hold Canadian mining companies to account for abuses overseas, Miningwatch.ca, September 4, 2009
• Stop Canadian Lakes from being Mining Effluent Dumps, Sign the petition, Concerns Citizens, July 8, 2008
• Stop Clayoquot Sound Copper Mine, Sierra Club of BC, May 14, 2008
• Citizens’ Inquiry on the Impacts of the Uranium Cycle – Send your views! Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium, Ontario, March 11, 2008
• End the Nuclear Industry in Saskatchewan, Canada, Sign the petition, Citizens for a Nuclear-Free Society, January 16, 2008

Take Action - International

• Demand an end to the criminalization of protest of a Canadian Mining Company in Guatemala, NISGUA, August 21, 2008

Media Clearinghouse

• Geodex raises $17M for mine project, Mine near Stanley would create 200-300 jobs, The Daily Gleaner, September 2
• Hunter Dickinson Group Options Sisson Brook Tungsten Molybdenum Project, for 17 million in expenditures, Geodex Minerals Press Release, August 31
• Joint venture seeks metal - Exploration Brazilian mining giant - partnered with Vancouver's El Nino Ventures and Xstrata Zinc Canada - investing $7.5M to uncover deposits south of Bathurst, Telegraph-Journal, August 26
• PotashCorp takeover bid concerns N.B. town, CBC News, August 20
• L'extraction du gaz de schiste au Québec, Radio-Canada, August 18
• Uranium Mining in Canada, Uranium Investing News, August 10
• Information session for the Town of Sackville, New Brunswick Business Journal - Market report, July 22
• Ruling could flood polluters with lawsuits, observers say, The Globe and Mail, July 20
• Town denies Petroworth’s request for gas exploration, The Sackville Tribune, July 15
• Has the door just opened for Canadian toxic tort litigation?, West Coast Environmental Law, July 8
• Natural gas tests planned for southern N.B., CBC News, July 2
• Pennsylvania quarantine cattle over gas drilling fluid, Reuters, July 1
• No fracking way: New Brunswickers should ban the hazardous process of hydraulic fracturing, Straight Goods.ca, June 28
• Province unprepared to handle new industry, Re: Shale gas mining, The Daily Gleaner, June 23
• Drilling for natural gas has consequences - lawyer, The Daily Gleaner, June 17
• Mineral claim staking joins the computer age, NB Natural Resources New Release, May 18
• Video - Fracing a Natural Gas Well, Penn State Cooperative Extension, 2008
• Gas Pains, Audubon Magazine - Incite, May 2010
• Uranium industry hit by price drop, regulation and attitude, Telegraph- Journal, April 21
• Fraser Survey says Quebec terrific for mining, steer clear of California, Mining Advocacy Network, April 16
• Public review process begins for Xstrata Canada Corp, Department of Environment News Release, April 14
• Government Sidesteps Supreme Court Ruling on Environmental Assessment, Budget Bill Ignores Court Instruction to Streamline Process, Mining Watch Canada News Release, April 1
• Frack Attack: Natural Gas Gains, Water loses, Watershed Sentinel, March-April 2010
• Shale gas 'fracking' in Ontario brings water concerns, Council of Canadians, March 20
  Press Release: EPA Initiates Hydraulic Fracturing Study, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, March 18
• Press Release: Gypsum Quarry Approval Threatens Watershed And Endangered Species, Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Chapter, February 19, 2010
• Groups Province-wide demand regulation of quarries, Belledune Citizens Committee, Conservation Council of NB, Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Canada, November 10, 2009
• NDP to legislate ban on uranium mining, Canadian Press, October 14, 2009
• What do we do with Lepreau now, Telegraph-Journal, September 30, 2009
• Penobsquis water dispute leads to EUB fight, CBC, September 3, 2009
• Corridor Reports Results of Independent Shale Gas Resource Study, Corridor Resources Inc, June 26, 2009
• Corporate Social Responsibility Rules for Mining Industry Blasted, Embassy Magazine, April 1, 2009
• Étude environnemental du projet Geodex maintenant disponible publié, La Presse Canadienne, 11 mars, 2009
• Students send anti-uranium message by courier, March 12, 2009.
• Favourable rules, corporation laws lure miner to province, March 6, 2009.
• Provincial government has an obligation to the public interest, Letter to the editor by Mark Connell, March 4, 2009
• Potential mine sites purchased, Times & Transcript, February 13, 2009
• Public response discouraged many companies, Telegraph-Journal, February 11, 2009
• Canada's Toxic Mine Tailings Secret Goes to Court, Mining Watch Canada, January 19, 2009
• Les minières américaines ne devraient pas agir comme celles au Canada, La Presse Canadienne, 11 janvier 2009 
• Mine project should be rejected, The Daily Gleaner, January 2, 2009
• Uranium uproar overtakes N.B. in 2008, Times & Transcript, January 1, 2009

Resources

• After four years in power, it is important to look at the Liberal government's decisions and their impacts on citizens, Common Front for Social Justice, August 2010
• Taking Stock Online - Comprehensive Data and tools on pollutant release and transfer in North America, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 2010
• Primer - Fracking for Shale Gas in New Brunswick: What you need to know, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Summer 2010
• Human health implication of uranium mining and nuclear power generation, Dr. Cathy Vakil M.D., C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P. Dr. Linda Harvey B.Sc., M.Sc., M.D
• Exploration, Exploitation and Excess: The Adverse Affects of Mining Uranium, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, January 2008
• Uranium Mining : 10 Things You Should Know about Uranium Mining, Conservation Council of New Brunswick , January 2008

Caucus

Mining Caucus Steering Committee

• Brenda Kelley, Bathurst Sustainable Development
• Peggy Gordon, Belledune Citizen's Committee
• Tracy Glynn, Conservation Council of New Brunswick
• Randy Nason, Grand Lake Watershed Guardians
• Léopold Bourgeois, Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group
• Tim Van Hinte, Petitcodiac Riverkeeper

Caucus documents

• New Brunswick water regulations strong: “keep it that way”, say environmentalists, New Brunswick Environmental Law Society, June 26, 2008
• Xstrata Briefs New Brunswick Environmental Network Mining Caucus on Closure Plan, NBEN Mining Caucus, April 15, 2008
• New Brunswick groups unite to pursue ban on uranium, Petitcodiac Riverkeeper, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, SCARE NB, May 14, 2008

Links

• Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium
• Nuclear Free NB
• Support Citizens Against Radioactive Emissions NB
• “Uranium” - National Film Board
• WISE Uranium Project