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Alward government has no public mandate to proceed with shale gas
Over 1,000 people rallied against shale gas on NB Day, August 1st, 2011 in Fredericton. Photo...
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Shale gas cannot be environmentally responsible
Rally against fracking for shale gas at the opening session of fall 2012 sitting of the...
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Mining’s dirty little secret
DeBeers' open pit mine near Attawapiskat. Photo: wikipedia.org Imagine your lovely house and home with its...
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Mi’kmaq Idle No More activists on hunger strike to save treaties (Updated)
Jean Sock of Elsipogtog First Nation and Shelley Young of Eskasoni First Nation began a hunger...
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“There is something rotten in our forest!”: filmmaker
Episode 13 of Charles Theriault's docu-web series explores logs being left to rot in the woods. Theriault asks, "To...
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Everybody wants to share Louie
Louie is a compact efficient car and he’s my first freedom on wheels. Him and I commute to Sackville from...
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Environmental activists in danger?
A recent column in Britain’s The Guardian, was titled “Canada’s environmental activists seen as ‘threat to national security’.” In it,...
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Warnings in Penobsquis cast doubt on government’s ability to regulate shale gas
Fredericton – A gas leak at the PotashCorp mine in Penobsquis in February combined with confirmation that no air quality...
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Strike stops production of NB Power’s coal supply
Workplace hazards, fairness for subcontracted workers top union demands Workers at the Colombian mine that provides coal to NB Power's...
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“Staring down the barrel of a pipeline:” Winona LaDuke warns against lost perspective in a time of climate change
St. Mary's/Sitansik/Fredericton - Winona LaDuke, whose books are read in classes at St. Thomas University, just got a new fan...
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