Environment: what solutions are the parties campaigning in New Brunswick proposing? | New Brunswick Elections 2024

New Brunswick, already struggling with erosion and deforestation of the Acadian forest, has suffered violent storms like Hurricanes Dorian and Fiona in the past five years.

However, it is clear that environmental issues are not mentioned by political parties during electoral campaigns as often as health or housing.

What are the parties proposing that are asking for the confidence of New Brunswickers in the October 21 provincial election?

If re-elected, the Progressive Conservatives intend to continue their efforts to limit the damage linked to climate change as provided for in the New Brunswick Action Plan 2022-2027.

René Ephestion, Progressive Conservative candidate in Baie-de-Shediac-Dieppe, affirms that the party will also continue its cooperation with the municipalities concerned.

We are here to support them, if only […] to update climate datahe said.

So that when municipalities make decisions on infrastructure, on land use planning, that they have reliable data to be able to put in place sustainable and stable infrastructure, and then take into account this future climate change data.

For liberals, everything must be done to protect the banks in order to avoid the consequences caused by rising sea levels.

Benoît Bourque, the outgoing deputy of Kent-Sud, is a candidate in the riding which was renamed Beausoleil-Grand-Bouctouche-Kent.

He promises that his party will make riprap one of its weapons against violent storms and hurricanes and that a liberal government will not abandon homeowners who suffer from the onslaught of the sea.

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The riprap where there are roads, but also the riprap of the residences which are on the water’s edgeexplains Benoît Bourque.

People appreciate if they can have assistance, if they can have a little government help to ensure that their properties are safehe said.

The Green Party of New Brunswick believes that environmental and climate change issues cannot be negotiated effectively without a better risk assessment.

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Megan Mittonoutgoing MP from Memramcook-Tantramar and now green candidate in the new redistricted constituency of Tantramar, believes that the time has come to adapt to the existing climate.

We need to change the way we do thingsshe declares.

We need to have rules for planning, to ensure that we cannot [construire] buildings, have apartments near the water. It doesn’t feel good, we know there are violent storms comingnote Megan Mitton.

The environment is indeed part of the programs of the three main political parties. And each of them has its own vision of how to meet the expectations of citizens who hope for concrete solutions to be as safe as possible from the harmful effects of climate change.

According to the report by Babatundé Lawani