Our private wood lot owners are small business owners, providing good jobs in rural communities. If this government is serious about job creation and economic development in rural New Brunswick, it must start enforcing the Crown land and Forests Act.
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The following is the preliminary Hansard transcript of the Question Period on February 10, 2016 recorded in the language it was originally spoken. Mr. Coon: It was two years ago Sunday that the former government signed a contract with Jim Irving to permit an unsustainable level of cutting on Crown land and to guarantee that volume of wood for 25 years to […]
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article from CBC News A few dozen people turned out at the legislature Wednesday to protest the use of glyphosate and other herbicides in the province. They are part of a new group called Stop Spraying New Brunswick, made up of hunters, environmentalists, and others opposed to spraying in New Brunswick forests. Members of the protest crowd in front of […]
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Article by Adam Huras, Telegraph Journal photo credit: Telegraph Journal The regional group that secured an important exemption for the Atlantic provinces from quotas imposed as part of the last softwood lumber deal with the United States isn’t representing New Brunswick this time around. The Maritime Lumber Bureau won’t explain why it’s no longer negotiating for the provinces, […]
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