The UNB Woodlot development was promoted as an environmentally progressive and sustainable project, which should have been a state-of-the-art showcase for the university and a source of pride for students, staff, alumni and the greater Fredericton community. Former President John McLaughlin proudly announced in a News Release on Oct. 4, 2004: “First and foremost we [...]
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When did 80 become 30?
Posted in Wetlands, UNB on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rally at UNB Board of Governors’ Meeting
Posted in Action!, Events, UNB, Wetlands on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Walk in the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Events, UNB, Wetlands on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, April 9, 3:00pm – 6:00pm Learn about the history, ecology and threats facing the UNB Woodlot. Present will be Friends of the UNB Woodlot and the UNB Environmental Law Society. Meet at 4pm in the back of Home Depot. If taking the bus from campus, meet at the SUB to grab the 3:22pm bus [...]
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 [...]
The Daily Gleaner: Groups say stop new projects on woodlot
Posted in Public Consultation, UNB, Wetlands on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
University seeks nod to develop more land By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com March 1, 2011 The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and the Friends of the UNB Woodlot urged city council to apply the brakes to any more development of the University of New Brunswick’s woodlot. But city council voted unanimously to support a proposal by [...]
UNB Woodlot in the Fall 2010
Posted in Green Space, UNB, Wetlands on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Letter of concern to new UNB President Eddy Campbell
Posted in UNB on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
December 7, 2009 Re: UNB Woodlot Dear UNB President Eddy Campbell, Congratulations on your recent appointment as UNB President. The Conservation Council’s Fredericton Chapter would like to request a meeting with you and appropriate UNB staff including Barbara Nicholson, the university’s Associate Vice-President of Capital Planning and Property Development, to discuss our concerns with the [...]
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 [...]
