Thursday, April 14 at 12:15pm – 12:45pm Wu Conference Centre (on UNB Campus across the street from St. Thomas University) We have lots of extra signs for everyone. We want to make it clear to the UNB Board of Governors that the Costco development plan violates the guarantee of 80m buffers that was made to [...]
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Rally at UNB Board of Governors’ Meeting
Posted in Action!, Events, UNB, Wetlands on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fredericton citizens rally to protect the 80-metre wetland buffer in the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Action!, Big Box Stores, UNB, Wetlands on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ongoing protests point out lack of wetland protection in the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Action!, Big Box Stores, Wetlands on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
About 20 people holding signs in support of saving Fredericton’s UNB Woodlot lined Regent Street in front of the future site of a Costco store over the noon hour today. The action, organized by the Friends of the UNB Woodlot, was meant to draw attention to the infringement of the 80-metre buffer zone of a [...]
Monday, April 26: Action at the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Action!, Big Box Stores, Events on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Please join us next Monday at noon hour at the site of the proposed Costco and gas bar, directly beside the New Maryland Highway in Corbett Place. Let’s take a stand and make sure UNB and Costco do not build the Costco gas bar and respect the 80metre buffers for Larch Swale and Corbett Brook [...]
Taking a stand for wetlands in the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Action!, Big Box Stores, UNB, Wetlands on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday, October 26 at noon about thirty people gathered at the Corbett Brook Marsh in the UNB Woodlot to participate in a taping-off event called “Taking a Stand for the UNB Woodlot Wetland.” Friends of the UNB Woodlot members measured 80 metres from Corbett Brook Marsh and marked the area with pink ribbon. Read [...]
Have your say about Costco in the UNB Woodlot Tonight!
Posted in Action!, Big Box Stores, Wetlands on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The public presentations to Fredericton City Council will take place tonight starting at 7:30 PM. Anyone can speak. You simply have to show up and ask to speak. To get to the Council chamber, you walk up the front steps of CIty Hall that face Queen Street. Once inside, you turn right and go [...]
Letter Reaffirming Call for Moratorium
Posted in Action!, Forest Research, UNB, Wetlands on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
March 4, 2009 To: President John McLaughlin, University of New Brunswick Stephen Strople, UNB Board of Governors Roland Haché, Minister of Environment Fredericton City Council Media The UNB Woodlot, located on unceded Wulustuk land, is over 3,500 acres of woods, wetlands and wildlife, home to mature forest, herons and lady slippers. Many residents of Fredericton [...]
CROAKER’S CROSSING AT CORBETT CENTRE WILL DRAW A LINE IN THE ROAD FOR BIG-BOX RETAILERS
Posted in Action!, Events, Road, Species, Wetlands on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fredericton, N.B., Canada October 31, 2008 In the aftermath of the so-called “froggy carnage”, The Friends of the UNB Woodlot will put several hundred popsicle-stick white crosses along a section of Knowledge Park Drive near the Corbett Centre retail complex. Each cross will remember the needless death of these small wetland frogs [...]
Activist alleges company broke law
Posted in Action!, Public Consultation, Wetlands on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the Daily Gleaner, 16 August 2008: A Fredericton activist has filed an affidavit with the Office of the Attorney General of New Brunswick alleging that a local business has breached the Clean Water Act, Clean Environment Act, the Health Act and provincial wetlands policy. Mark D’Arcy, who spent three days this week digging up [...]
WOODLOT Walk, Run, or Ride
Posted in Action!, Events on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Join us every Sunday afternoon at 2pm to enjoy UNB’s Woodlot. Interested people can meet up at the parking area across from the Hugh John Fleming Forestry Complex. Just turn into the Forestry Complex street at the intersection of the Regent Mall, and you will see the gravel parking area to your right. This is [...]
