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News from the Network: Ocean and Coasts
The Conservation Corps Newfoundland and Labrador has hired an intern to work for the Northeast Avalon Regional Economic Development Board (NEA REDB) and the towns of Bauline, Flatrock and Pouch Cove. Intern Julia Pantin will be working with the towns of Bauline, Flatrock and Pouch Cove to develop and implement a coastal resource inventory which will produce a series of maps illustrating the distribution of natural resources off the coasts of these communities. [Continue...] 
A review of party policies carried out by the Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network (NLEN) indicates that environmental issues are receiving attention from all three parties this election. In late August, the Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network sent a questionnaire to each of the parties requesting their positions on a number of issues… [Continue...] 
On August 29, 2011 the NLEN sent an environmental policy questionnaire to each of the three parties running in the upcoming provincial election. With an aim to encourage public dialogue on environmental issues, it poses questions related to investment in environmental conservation and education… [Continue...]
The Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network has released a set of Environmental Policy Recommendations and a Questionnaire for consideration of all political parties in the upcoming fall provincial election. The environmental policy recommendations address a number of issues in our province: protected area establishment, climate change, offshore oil pollution, forestry management, mining, and wildlife protection. [Continue...] 
The recent news of east coast cod stocks slowly rebuilding failed to acknowledge a major contributing factor to recovery of groundfish on the eastern Scotian Shelf. Commencing in 1987 after many protests from fishers and fishing communities and the collapse of haddock stocks in that area, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed an offshore zone south and east of Halifax to all bottom trawling. [Continue...] |
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