New Brunswick election: Greens promise to guarantee right to a healthy environment – New Brunswick [Video]

The leader of New Brunswick’s Green Party is promising to pass a law that would guarantee the right to a healthy environment if his party is elected to govern on Oct. 21.

David Coon was campaigning in Saint John, N.B., on Wednesday. He announced the pledge while standing outside a scrapyard where a fire in September 2023 burned for two days, its hazardous smoke drifting over the city as emergency officials urged people to stay inside and wear a mask.

“Over the years, we have seen government after government cover up environmental contamination to the detriment of the health of New Brunswickers,” Coon, a former environmental activist, said in a statement.

“In my 40 years of experience dealing with toxic chemicals and pesticides that pose a risk to the health of New Brunswickers, Liberal and Conservative governments have almost always taken the side of industry against public health,” he said.

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