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BoFEP Environmental Stewardship Award – Call for nominations The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership created an Environmental Stewardship Award in 2004 to recognize the significant efforts of individual citizens toward the environmental stewardship of the Bay of Fundy. [...] The Executive Director of the Conservation Council of NB highlights the top six environmental stories of the past year. [...] This finding touched off a flurry of commentary: 1.8 million pieces of garbage litter bottom of Bay of Fundy, says study (CBC News) COMMENT: The Bay of Fundy is full of junk (Cumberland News Now) Tires, rubber gloves and plastic bags: What the bottom of the Bay of Fundy looks like (Globe and Mail) On a brighter note, some residents are making a commendable effort to tackle the problem: Advocate Ha. [...] LNG: Good for the environment … really? Many of the relevant documents are available for download at: Meanwhile, on the other side of the upper Bay, along the Shubenacadie River, opponents of the Alton Gas proposal to store huge volumes of natural gas in subterranean salt caverns are keeping up the pressure to halt the project. [...] Concerns range from local flooding in coastal municipalities to the complete cutting off of Nova Scotia from the rest of Canada as a result of inundation of the low-lying Chignecto Isthmus region (and all of its transportation infrastructure) at the head of the Bay.