Gretchen Fitzgerald's blog

In February, we launched a campaign to make our Chapter sustainable.

We want to continue be a Voice for the Earth, implementing innovative and effective environmental education programs like our Wild Child Nature Immersion Project.

We want to keep on addressing key concerns from an Atlantic Canadian perspective, on issues like fracking, local solutions to climate change, and stopping oil an gas development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

We need local donors to help us continue to be here when members, media, and the general public call with concerns, asking for expert advice and action! But we can't do so without your help.

Please help us achieve our goal of $40,000 by making your contribution to the campaign here. 

Thanks to our generous supporters, we are growing a forest of support! ... Read more »

 

Hon. Sean Skinner                                                                                                  July 18, 2011

Minister of Natural Resources... Read more »

E-mail  to NS Minister of Environment Stirling Belliveau and Minister of Natural Resources & Energy Charlie Parker, Responding to their Decision to Review Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale Gas Operations

 

April 4, 2011... Read more »

In order to appease Quebecers for not coming to a deal with the federal government on sales tax harmonization before the election, the Harper and Charest governments are offering up the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a sacrificial lamb to oil development. They think they can fool us into believing the revenue from oil and gas will compensate us for damage done by a massive oil spill such as the one that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, which is estimated to cost $100 billion, and counting (The true costs to the envrionment are, of course, beyond value in dolaars and cents.)

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