Telegraph-Journal, June 10, 2009

The Atlantica Centre for Energy has welcomed three companies as new members of the board. ADI Ltd., Corridor Resources Inc., and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline have joined the Saint John-based industry association that promotes the sustainable growth of the region's energy sector. New individual board members include UNBSJ vice-president Robert MacKinnon, left, and ACOA's Andrew Noseworthy.

June 8, 2009

Blog posting by Macdonald Stainsby, posted on the Dominion weblog at: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/macdonald/2711

Please forgive me-- this may end up seeming like a rant in places, for I simply must get some things off my chest. I hope my prediction that it will make sense by the end is true.

I am a strong proponent of the idea that hitchhiking is simply one of the greatest forms of grassroots journalism. When you enter a new place, the odds are quite high that you are traveling with a local. If this is the case, then you will become immediately armed with “insider” information to which there is little match. The sorts of things I am often lucky to learn, in any case, would certainly not be told in any tourist information booth.

The Daily Gleaner, May 1, 2009
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/search/article/653382

Attention New Brunswickers, I would like to tell you why all N.B. taxpayers should oppose public private partnerships (P3s).

Ten good reasons why privatization should worry you.

1. Environmental standards will fall.

2. User fees will rise (they already have risen and new ones created).

3. Good jobs will be lost (700 already).

4. Working conditions will deteriorate.

5. Access will suffer.

6. Pay and employment equity will suffer.

7. Accountability will be reduced.

8. Quality will be sacrificed.

By Lee Ann Ward and Larry Lack
St. Andrews, NB

Telegraph-Journal, Published Thursday April 30th, 2009
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/651887

Jamer Materials and its supporters are not discussing an essential element of the provincial decision to deny the company's request to continue operating by expanding its Bayside gravel mine.

In announcing that decision Environment Minister Roland Haché referred to the environmental damage from the Jamer mine. This environmental perspective is important, but beyond the environmental specifics of the Jamer controversy, the province's decision respects the will of the overwhelming majority of the people in the communities impacted by Jamer's mine. A large majority of the people of coastal Charlotte County disapprove of the Jamer mine and want government to call a halt to gravel extraction there.

Join the first Critical Mass Bike Ride of 2009.

This Friday, April 24 at 5:30 PM

Meet at Officer’s Square, corner of Queen and Regent St.

Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road.

By ADAM BOWIE, The Daily Gleaner
Published Saturday April 18th, 2009
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/front/article/639245

Hundreds of protesters waved placards and chanted for Premier Shawn Graham's resignation Friday at the legislature as they rallied against public-sector job cuts and the closure of ferry services.

Photo: Fighting cuts: CUPE members from across the province and people fighting the closure of three ferries rallied together to protest the cuts by the Liberal government outside the New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton on Friday. Above, former Liberal cabinet minister and Village of Gagetown resident Vaughn Blaney voices his concern about the decision to shut down the Gagetown ferry.

CBC News
Thursday, April 16, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/04/16/nb-quarry-charlotte.html

The Environment Department has quashed a bid by Jamer Materials to expand its quarry in Charlotte County over concerns it could jeopardize the local watershed.

Jamer Materials has been crushing rock on the shore of the St. Croix River for more than a decade and was seeking to expand across the highway.

'It's about time that they did leave so the area can flourish and have year-round employment for the people of Charlotte County.'— John Craig, mayor of St. Andrews

Environment Minister Roland Hache said the quarry's expansion was denied because it would have endangered Chamcook Lake, which is the watershed that supplies the entire town of St. Andrews.

Video: http://www.blinkx.com/video/solidarity-forever-pete-seeger/w75SQu4HuYym9vm2fOsFGA

* Oppose everything that is wrong with the Provincial Budget this Friday.

Rally to oppose the Liberal Government Budget

When : On Friday, April 17, 2009 at 12 noon
Where : Join us in front of the Legislative Assembly

The time has come for New Brunswickers to say NO to job cuts, reduction of public programs and services, wage freeze, interference in collective bargaining and imposing essential services in the nursing homes.

THIS EVENT IS HOSTED AND ORGANIZED BY CUPE NB.

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Ralliement pour s'opposer au budget du gouvernement libéral

From the NB Business Journal, Saturday, April 11:
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/632077

The article quotes Charles Cirtwill, executive vice-president of the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies, saying: "it is being driven for the most part by private-sector investors..."

NORTH-SOUTH ENERGY CORRIDOR
The article highlights, "renewable energy will be the cornerstone of (the drive to New Brunswick shedding it's 'have-not' status by 2026, premier Shawn) Graham said, as abundant sources of hydro, wind and possibly tidal power are channelled through the New Brunswick energy hub to hungry New England markets."