FREDERICTON • Federal Green party Leader Elizabeth May says Canada needs a national energy policy and climate plan – one that would halt the $12-billion Energy East pipeline project before a single section of steel is anchored above the ground. May was in New Brunswick on Monday, her fourth visit to the province in the space of about a year,promoting her national […]
Read moreMr. 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 moreClimate Change Mr. Coon: My question is for the Premier. The extreme weather that we have been experiencing is a reminder that our existing infrastructure was not designed to withstand the impacts of climate change, but climate change is what we have, and it is speeding up. During the last rainstorm, raw sewage poured into the Petitcodiac River because […]
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