Nouvelles des groupes
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- Publié par : Terry Wishart
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE TOUR: Red Dot Poll Results Summary for Belledune, April 9, 2014
Belledune April 9, 2014 Red Dot Poll results:
1) We need to protect our water above all else.
2) Belledune should pass a 10 year moratorium on shale.
3) Map aquifers
4) (tie)
- Ask politicians the hard questions
- Government must classify our waterways
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- Publié par : Terry Wishart
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE TOUR:
Red Dot Poll Results Summary for Woodstock, March 25 2014
- 45 citizens (approx.) in attendance
1) Shale gas moratorium
2) Consult with First Nations before entering into resource agreements.
3) Change Forest Act as BC, Quebec and Ontario have done
4) (tie)
-Discontinue subsidies to BIG corporations
-People before profi
5) (tie)
- Government needs NEW thinking esp. jobs, value added, renewables
- Windmills and small local energy generation
- Energy efficiency
6) Tour going to First Nation communities
7) (tie)
- Community bill of rights
- Contact influential people in your community.
- Education: Spread the word
8) Proportional representation
9) “ Land Caution” on Crown land
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- Publié par : Terry Wishart
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FOR FREDERICTON NORTH, March 24 2014
- 140 citizens (approx.) in attendance
1) Stop subsidies to large profitable corporations
2) A shale gas moratorium or ban in NB
3) Investment tools of citizens, communities and co-ops:
- Feed-in tariffs
- Community Economic Dev't Investment Funds
- Investment tax credits for co-ops
- Long-term payback loans for solar/wind
4) Proportional Representation
5) (tie):
- Local manufacturing of energy-efficiency solutions
- Elected leaders must offer viable CLEAN ENERGY solutions as a way to create jobs and create a sustainable civilization
6) Lessen the control and monopoly of media in NB
7) Solar energy development and investments
8) Take back our democratic process
9) Protect the water resources in NB
10) (tie):
-Town hall meetings
- Cooperation between NDP and Green Party to prevent vote splitting
- Government MUST listen to citizens
- Journalists must be asking questions about gov’t decisions ( e.g. why forestry is creating so few jobs)
11) (tie):
-Tidal power
- Promote cooperative enterprises
- Invest in public education
12) Create a local, regional food policy for NB
13) (tie):
- Mandatory for new homes/buildings to use solar energy
- Aquifer mapping in NB
14) (tie):
- Encourage information technology: get young people into mobile media/film technology AND gov’t should use software created in NB.
- Citizens must become more engaged and come out to rallies
15) (tie)
- Bring back energy efficiency
- Better guidelines for building all new homes/buildings
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- Publié par : Tashina Thomas
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Saviez-vous que la collaboration donnait des résultats? Lors d’ une enquête, une écrasante majorité des participants ont rapporté qu’ils étaient enchantés de leur participation au collectif qui a permis une augmentation de la sensibilisation aux enjeux de la santé et de l’environnement et de meilleures relations en général et au travail en particulier.
Des idées pour l’avenir fusent de toutes parts parmi ce groupe pour faire du Collectif une priorité dans la province du NB – à partir de fonder des chaires de recherche dans les universités de la province jusqu’à faire des demandes de financement pour cartographier les souches de maladies et de contaminations environnementales au NB. Et si la province du NB réagissait envers la création d’une Charte des droits des enfants à un environnement salubre de la même façon que les participants au séminaire l’ont fait, cette charte deviendrait loi en moins de 10 secondes!
Le rapport final et les présentations de la rencontre sont disponibles sur le site Web du RENB sur la page du Collectif sur la santé des enfants et l’environnement.
N’oubliez pas de suivre notre nouveau défenseur, Norman l’Éco-guerrier sur Twitter! @NEcoWarrior.
Merci à nos bailleurs de fonds : le ministère de la Santé du NB, le ministère, le ministère des collectivités saines et inclusives et Raffi Cavoukian!
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- Publié par : Vanessa Roy-McDougall
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Très important à voir, les commentaires de Charles Theriault:
http://www.isourforestreallyours.com/Isourforestreallyours/Ep_22.html
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- Publié par : Roberta Clowater
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Commentary - February 27, 2014
Scientists Concerned Upcoming New Brunswick Forestry Plan will Eliminate too Much Habitat
We are writing as a collective of concerned scientists and professionals who have spent many decades studying the needs of wildlife, healthy forests, and rivers in New Brunswick. Less than two years ago (March 2012), the Minister of Natural Resources announced a new 10-year Crown forest management plan that, while not acceptable to all, at least attempted to hold the line on keeping a minimum amount of habitat for wildlife, and appropriate buffers along rivers and streams. This was a plan that the Department developed after a year of consultation with wildlife researchers, forest companies, hunting and angling groups, environmental groups and First Nations. It was supposed to have set the amount of forest managed for conservation goals at 28% of the public forest. This was the bare minimum deemed necessary by government wildlife managers to make sure we have enough old forest to maintain healthy populations of our wildlife. The 2012 plan would have reduced clearcutting in certain Acadian mixed-forests, and reduced the amount of wood logged from hardwood stands to make sure there will be enough hardwoods to log in the future.
We thought the 2012 plan was the path forward. Now we are deeply concerned to learn that a new plan has been in development behind the scenes, government is apparently ignoring previous recommendations from their own staff, and did not ask for input or feedback from wildlife researchers or others who could speak on behalf of the public’s stated priority values - water, wildlife and basic sustainability of the forest.
The Premier in his 2014 State of the Province address, and Minister of Natural Resources in recent media interviews, both alluded to a new strategy that will allocate more wood to the province’s mills. Having not been part of the discussions that led to these decisions, we cannot be sure where this wood will come from. Since all Crown forest is already allocated, we are concerned the wood will come from buffer strips on brooks and wetlands, from deer yards, and from the small pockets of forest used to maintain wildlife and old forest. We are left to wonder if the wood will come from these previously conserved habitat areas, taking us below the minimums that are deemed necessary for wildlife and the health of our rivers. If this is what is being proposed, we believe it would be an irresponsible plan that will have serious negative consequences for the sustainability of our public forests for a long time to come.
Roberta Clowater (Executive Director, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society-NB Chapter); Dr. Tom Beckley (Professor, Forestry and Environmental Management, UNB); Dr. Tony Diamond (Research Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Biology Dep’t and Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Management, UNB); Dr. Graham Forbes (Director, New Brunswick Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Centre, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, Faculty of Science, UNB); Dr. Roger Roy (Professor and Interim Director, School of Forestry, UdeM); Dr. Marc-André Villard (Professor, Biology, Université de Moncton).
www.cpawsnb.org
