Mr. Speaker, I was pleased to note that the Premier met with the new governor of Massachusetts earlier this week. There is much to learn from Massachusetts. His predecessor Deval Patrick put in place an economic strategy to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Early in his first term the Governor brought in the Green Jobs Act, the Green […]
Read moreMr. Speaker, new research was published in the Journal Nature, which provides numbers on the quantities and locations of fossil fuels that must remain in the ground avoid dangerous climate change – to keep within the 2C temperature limit that Canada and the rest of world have agreed to avoid. This is the first peer reviewed analysis to identify which […]
Read moreMr. Coon: After listening to the debate on fracking for shale gas yesterday, I was amazed that our climate crisis was never mentioned. The recent severe weather that we have had in New Brunswick and, in fact, across Canada and throughout North America is a reminder that we are in a time of rapid climate change. That is why the […]
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