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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 »
UNB Woodlot supporters make a splash
Posted in Big Box Stores, UNB, Wetlands on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colourful floatation devices, signs and streamers are part of a rally to save Fredericton’s wetlands and the UNB Woodlot on April 7, 2011. Photo: Kevin Matthews. Over 50 people gathered over the noon hour on Thursday, April 7 to protest the University of New Brunswick’s development of its woodlot. Participants lined up along the New [...]
Rally for Action on Climate Change
Posted in Big Box Stores, Events, UNB, Wetlands on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, April 7, 12:15pm to 12:45pm Beside the future Costco site (at the lights in front of Home Depot, Corbett Place, along new Maryland Hwy). A group of concerned citizens in Fredericton, N.B. is calling on the University of New Brunswick to stop the development of its teaching forest and to conduct a flood risk [...]
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 [...]
How far away should the Costo be from Corbett Marsh?
Posted in Big Box Stores, UNB, Wetlands on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photos: Charles LeBlanc. Note from a participant: It turned out that 80 metres from ‘wetland 2′ on the side of Corbett Place, put us on the entrance to Home Depot! We also measured an 80 m buffer from Corbett Brook. I had to wade through a wetland to mark this buffer off (cat tails, sphagnum [...]
UNB ignoring woodlot promise – student
Posted in Big Box Stores, UNB, Wetlands on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jennifer Dunville for the Daily Gleaner, Published Saturday October 24th, 2009 http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/834635
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 [...]
Fredericton Chapter of Conservation Council concerned with process to approve Costco in the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Big Box Stores, Public Consultation, UNB, Wetlands on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conservation Council of New Brunswick Fredericton Chapter For Immediate Release April 29, 2009 Fredericton – The Fredericton Chapter of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick is joining those concerned with the way that Fredericton City Council handled the approvals needed to build a Costco in the UNB Woodlot. “We are concerned with the lack of [...]
Fredericton council hears opposition to proposed Costco gas bar, parking lot plan
Posted in Big Box Stores, Public Consultation, Wetlands on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/04/15/nb-fredericton-costco-125.html The addition of a gas bar and a parking lot expansion on the proposed Costco site caused close to 100 people to turn out to a Fredericton city council meeting on Tuesday night. Eleven people spoke against the proposed expansion at the Costco site at the [...]
