Action Alert: URGENT NEED TO CONTACT MINISTER FITCH AND YOUR MLA

: Posted by CCNB Action; 01 March 2013

Dear NB ENGOs: URGENT NEED TO CONTACT MINISTER FITCH AND YOUR MLA

Minister of Environment and Local Government Bruce Fitch has indicated on CBC radio this morning that he is under pressure to release Environmental Trust Fund monies which have accumulated over the years to create the new Energy Institute (which Louis Lapierre will lead).

This may be a trial balloon to gauge public response. So NGOs need to respond!

The ETF contains funds intended to enable environmental needs to be addressed, NOT institutes which study the shale gas industry. Please contact Minister Fitch TODAY to indicate your disapproval of this idea: bruce.fitch@gnb.ca. Also your MLA!

If groups who have received ETF funds in the past fail to object to this proposal it will likely proceed.

Please let your Minister and MLA know that ETF Funds are to be spent on worthwhile community environmental initiatives which generate employment in rural areas and contribute to the quality of life in New Brunswick.

Thank you!
Céline Délacroix, Executive Director
CCNB Action

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