On Saturday, December 8, Rally around the Earth for Climate Justice and a Safer, Healthier Planet! You have a power you may not recognize - the power to stop climate chaos. According to the World Health Organization, climate change is already killing 150,000 people every year, and that could double to 300,000 annual deaths by 2030. Whole ecosystems face upheaval and millions of people face displacement. The climate is in crisis, but we can avoid climate catastrophe if we take action now to save the Kyoto Protocol. People around the world are preparing for the largest planetary day of action yet to stop climate chaos. Join hundreds of thousands of people in 60 countries (and counting) who will be on the streets to demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent catastrophic climate chaos. The entire world needs to move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty, which is both equitable and effective in preventing dangerous climate change.

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We have heard all the excuses; we have heard all the untruths. The Provincial government of this province along with the four elected MLAs from the Miramichi area continue to ignore our voice.

Since December 2004, UPM has continued to cut wood on provincially owned Crown Lands, and this government, along with the last, has allowed this to happen.

We have met with provincial officials along with the premier, and they continue to say, "Nothing is being exported."

Well we know differently! We know wood is being trucked full length and in chips to other provinces, as well as other countries.

JANICE HARVEY
November 28th, 2007

As we await Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s feasibility assessment of its own proposal to build a second nuclear reactor at the Point Lepreau site, we may glean some more legitimate analysis of the future of nuclear power from other quarters.

Lisa Keenan made a good start on this in her column last Friday ("Assessing Graham's nuclear ambition"), citing a 2003 report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office of the U.S. government.

It concluded that building new nuclear reactors would be such a risky financial enterprise that the public treasury would inevitably end up underwriting the venture to the tune of at least 50 per cent of the cost; the risk of default on loan guarantees would be greater than 50

By KELLY NEWMAN
November 28th, 2007

I do not support uranium mining.

I am fundamentally opposed to it. It matters not where it is, for wherever it is, it should not be.

The fact that it is being considered anywhere shows that society has been in a constant devolution since settlers came to this land and assumed false power over its stewards.

A ban on uranium mining is needed in New Brunswick. Actually, a world-wide moratorium is needed, but we should all start with our own backyards to clean things up.

I heard my community being offered up to be bought and sold on the stock market recently.

Mining for uranium not welcome in N.B.
By K. WALTER MOORE
November 27th, 2007

I am writing this as a response to the column published in the Oct. 24 Daily Gleaner, Fear not the two per cent effect of radiation.

First of all, the writer suggests radiation is harmless. I say tell that to the population of Chernobyl.

According to a UN report, since that nuclear disaster took place, there have been 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer, most of them children. The same report says 350,000 people had to be relocated. The local population says tens of thousands have died.

Health Canada, Environment and Workplace Health says: "Whether or not (uranium) mining is conducted in open pits or underground, there are environmental health hazards and impacts to workers and the general public that need to be considered."

Support CEP Local 689 of UPM in Miramichi who are organizing a demonstration in front of the Legislature this Friday, November 30 at 10 a.m. They want the Department of Natural Resources to make a commitment to keep the harvested wood in the province.

http://www.canoe.ca/AtlanticTicker/CANOE-wire.NS-Quarry-Rejected.html

N.S. environment minister rejects quarry proposal for Digby Neck
Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 | 5:15 PM ET
Canadian Press: Michael Tutton, THE CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Conservative government has rejected a quarry that would have extracted two million tonnes of basalt, suggesting eco-tourism might be an alternative for the communities along Digby Neck.

Mark Parent, the minister of the environment, said Tuesday the decision was based on recommendations from a review panel to kill the quarry and marine terminal advanced by New Jersey-based Bilcon Corp.

Conservation Council of New Brunswick News Release
For immediate publication
November 22, 2007

Environment Minister John Baird Rejects Federal Review of Irving Oil Refinery

Environment Minister John Baird has refused to strike a joint panel review of the proposed Irving Oil refinery with the Province of New Brunswick, nor will he carry out a federal review. In a press release yesterday he said the federal government would restrict its review to the environmental impacts of the breakwater and wharf that would be constructed to serve the new oil refinery. Instead, all other environmental impacts which come under federal jurisdiction will be considered by the Province.

November 15, 2007

By JULIE MICHAUD, Climate Action Outreach co-ordinator, Conservation Council of New Brunswick

In last Friday's edition, Irving Oil CEO Kenneth Irving explained to us why the creation of a second oil refinery presents a "very significant environmental opportunity."

He claims that since the oil is destined to fill a market demand in the Northeastern U.S., having nearby New Brunswick fill this demand will result in fewer transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions versus having it shipped in from farther away. He even goes so far as to compare this to the environmental benefits of eating locally - a 100-mile diet for oil tycoons, so to speak.