There is no business case for developing an LNG export terminal in the province, according to a study released by Repsol SA, owner of an LNG import terminal on the Bay of Fundy near of Saint John. CRED-NB core member the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA) recalled the unrealistic idea proposed by the New Brunswick premier Blaine Higgs that fracked gas from the province would supply the proposed export facility. Read the NBASGA media release HERE.
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Court grants public interest standing to environmental groups in case related to Goldboro LNG
We’re celebrating with CRED-NB core member, New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA) after a Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruling marked a major victory for access to environmental justice in Nova Scotia.
From the media release, here’s a quote from NBASGA’s Jim Emberger: “It would seem that issues of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and concerns about toxic mining pollution would, by definition, be ‘serious’, and that the public would naturally be entitled to reasons when governments decide to ignore those issues. It is too bad that it took a Court of Appeal to acknowledge these self-evident principles, but we are pleased that they did, and that we are now able to address the substance of these issues in court.”
Click HERE for the full story in the release.
‘My burning shame’: George Monbiot on wood-burning stoves
Prominent UK environmental writer George Monbiot writes in The Guardian this week about his shame and regret for converting his home to heat with wood-burning stoves. “Wood burners are incredibly bad for the environment – and flood our homes with toxins, too… Every time you open the stove door to refuel, your home is flooded with tiny particulates, accompanied by other toxins.” Read his article HERE.
In New Brunswick, the NB Lung Association recommends not burning wood for the same reason. Info on their website includes: “Burning wood is a major source of air pollution, and can have negative effects on the environment and human health. Smoke from wood combustion is the leading source of particulate emissions in New Brunswick. In fact, wood burning accounts for over 70% of total Particulate Matter 2.5 in the province, more than any industrial source.”
COP27 shows Higgs is out of touch with reality
Is our premier Blaine Higgs out of step with global trends for climate change mitigation? Read the analysis comparing the current reality reflected in the recent COP27 and the NB government’s shale gas ambitions. Commentary by Jim Emberger, CRED core member with the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA) published by the NB Media Co-op, HERE.
Decolonial Solidarity Moncton- Kill the Drill: Rally Nov. 5
Rallies will be held across Canada on Saturday Nov. 5 in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people and the defense of their land from a proposed gas pipeline. The Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline would transport fracked natural gas across Wet’suwet’en territory to a proposed export terminal in Kitimat, BC.
The Climate Justice Coalition in the Moncton region is joining with other environmental and Indigenous allies and groups such as Decolonial Solidarity, LeadNow, Extinction Rebellion, the Suzuki Foundation, 350.org, and others on November 5th to oppose development of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline. The rally will be focussed on the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the largest funder of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline. Details for the action in Moncton are below:
Decolonial Solidarity Moncton – We Are All One – Kill the Drill
Start: Saturday, November 05, 2022 11:15 AM
Royal Bank of Canada
719 Mountain Rd Moncton, NB E1C 8H9
Mi’gmaq and Wolastoqiyik / Walastakwiyik leaders remain opposed to reopening fracking exploration
“Earlier this week, the Government of New Brunswick delivered its speech from the throne to open a new session of the legislature. The speech did not respectfully reflect that it was delivered on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey peoples, rather it adopted Higgs’ government’s new revisionist land acknowledgement which fails to recognize our Nations as the proper title and rights holders over these lands, and ignores the solemn promises of our Peace and Friendship Treaties.”
Read the full statement by Indigenous leaders HERE.
Fracking again? An LNG export terminal? Facts please
Premier Blaine Higgs has hinted he would like to end the moratorium on fracking in the province. The premier is also pushing a private-sector company, Repsol, to convert its Saint John LNG (liquefied natural gas) import terminal into an export terminal to help Germany with its energy woes.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and CRED-NB core member the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA) have published a fact sheet to unpack this situation. Read it HERE.
Fossil and nuclear energy regimes threaten global security
Janice Harvey, representative on CRED-NB for the Environment & Society Program at St. Thomas University, is the author of this commentary in The Hill Times, and republished in the NB Media Co-op, HERE.
Climate Change Won’t Wait for Politics
Geopolitical events are persuading some governments to re-invest in fossil fuel infrastructure. Jim Emberger from the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA, a CRED-NB core group) wrote a letter in response to a commentary in Brunswick news calling for more fossil fuel extraction in Canada. He writes:
Climate change is happening so rapidly that many plants and animals may not be able to adapt or move in time to survive. Crop losses due to climate related weather, and diseases due to invasive species, whose expansion is enabled by warmer conditions, are all on the rise.
None of these trends cares a whit about Ukraine, or Canada’s fossil fuel industry. The laws of physics do not respond to political and economic events, nor can you bargain with them. If we burn more fossil fuels – the climate will warm – period.
Read the letter HERE, on the NBASGA website.
Video: Decarbonization, Lock-in and Transition in Eastern Canada
Do you know what carbon “lock-in” is, and how it keeps us tied to fossil fuel infrastructure in New Brunswick? If not, check out this video by JP Sapinski, professor of environmental studies at Université de Moncton. The story with the video link was published by the NB Media Co-op, HERE.
The video is Sapinski’s a zoom presentation, hosted by the Environment & Society program at St. Thomas University and the RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick (both CRED-NB core members).