Shale Gas Issues From Various Jurisdictions .......................................................................................... 7 Foreword ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Calls for Moratoriums and Bans ........................................................................................................... 9 France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories ........................................................... 9 Contamination and Science ............................................................................................................... 10 Renewable Energy ............................................................................................................................ 11 Taymouth man goes 'super solar' with house covered in solar panels ........................................... 11 Science and Health ........................................................................................................................... 12 Economics, Legal, and Investigations ................................................................................................ 13 US Heading for 2nd Great Depression: Nobel Laureate Stiglitz ..................................................... 13 Pentagon Urges Mexico to Reopen COVID-Closed Factories That Supply US Weapon Makers .. 13 U.S. Factories in Mexico Remain Open Despite Surge in COVID-19 Cases ................................. 13 Regulations ........................................................................................................................................ 14 Environment and Enjoyment of Property ........................................................................................... 15 Climate Change Deniers Are Blocking Progress, UN Report Suggests for First Time ................... 15 Flagship UN study shows accelerating climate change on land, sea and in the atmosphere ......... 15 Grace gravity mission captures Greenland ice loss ....................................................................... 15 New Study Predicts the Ocean Ecosystem Will Collapse This Decade ......................................... 16 Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather ....................................... 16 Government, Meetings, News, and Letters ........................................................................................ 17 New Brunswick Is Blowing An Opportunity We Can’t Afford to Blow .............................................. 17 CUPE on Allardville lockout: “Never seen anything like this before” .............................................. 17 Public shouldn't get power to veto reform, health authority chair says ........................................... 18 6 First Nations sue province for charges against Indigenous loggers ............................................ 18 Higgs government delivers 2nd balanced budget, projects $92M surplus in 2020-21 .................... 18 Trudeau pledges $1B for COVID-19 fight as WHO declares pandemic ......................................... 19 Coronavirus outbreak: New Brunswick announces first presumptive case of COVID-19 ............... 19 Update on COVID-19, the novel coronavirus - March 13 ............................................................... 19 Gordon Edwards in New Brunswick: “The nuclear industry is desperate” ...................................... 19 65 seniors to be moved out of hospitals to make way for COVID-19 patients ................................ 20 Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful in Treating COVID-19 ...................................................... 20 Nursing Home Final Offer Votes Halted by Province ..................................................................... 20 Bats are not to blame for coronavirus. Humans are ....................................................................... 21 Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease) .......................................................................................................... 21 Scientists Describe How 1918 Influenza Virus Sample Was Exhumed In Alaska - July 4, 2007 .... 22 Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier .................................. 22 Glacier ice archives fifteen-thousand-year-old viruses ................................................................... 22 Health crisis linked to human actions, says environmentalist ......................................................... 23 Why New Brunswick COVID-19 tests trail rest of Canada ............................................................. 24 7 things to know about NB's Emergency Measures Act ................................................................. 24 Coronavirus - Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health (Public Health) .................................... 24 A fundamental shift': Nearly half of reported COVID-19 cases in Canada now from community spread ........................................................................................................................................... 25 How much should the public know about COVID-19 cases? It depends who you ask ................... 25 VIDEO - COVID-19 testing data reveal areas of concentration, missing info in New Brunswick ... 25 Maps of health zones and NBHC communities .............................................................................. 27 Northeastern N.B. has no COVID-19 cases, but province won't say how many tested .................. 27 New Brunswick N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 'Enhanced' pandemic plan coming, says Higgs ............ 28 Higgs expects municipalities to close parks to combat COVID-19 ................................................. 29 Irving Oil retools its lubricants plant to produce hand sanitizer ....................................................... 29 Missing addresses force a reboot of regional testing numbers ...................................................... 30 1 New Brunswick health networks collaborate on drug trial to treat people with COVID-19 .............. 30 Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) belongs to a group of medicines called quinolines. ...................... 31 Clinical and Structural Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine in Rheumatoid Arthritis: ........................... 31 Arizona man dies, wife in critical condition after taking aquarium cleaner containing malaria drug for coronavirus ............................................................................................................................... 31 'No benefit' to sending seniors ill with COVID-19 to hospital, some nursing homes tell loved ones ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 COVID-19 task force struck after memo warning of 'excessive use' of masks took 2 weeks to send ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 New task force to cut through bureaucracy to accelerate response to COVID-19 .......................... 33 COVID-19 could kill 550 to 1,750 New Brunswickers, provincial modelling suggests .................... 33 Time for fair monetary return from NB’s Crown forest .................................................................... 33 Former head of library service alleges job ad worded so non-librarian could fill post ..................... 34 New Brunswick in 'very significant deficit territory' just two weeks into fiscal year .......................... 34 One new case of COVID-19 found, bringing total to 118 ............................................................... 35 ATV trails will reopen despite premier calling decision 'premature' ................................................ 35 Reopening ATV trails was 'bad decision' that will be reversed, QuadNB says ............................... 35 Hon. Mike Holland, Resume .......................................................................................................... 36 Premier says May 1 possible date for lifting some restrictions ....................................................... 36 Saint John pushes for province to act on tax changes immediately ............................................... 36 Covid carrots: N.B. takes pandemic as warning it's producing too few vegetables ........................ 36 N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Businesses should prepare to reopen, build 'better and stronger' province ......................................................................................................................................... 37 Take staggered approach to reopening province, says epidemiologist .......................................... 38 Removal of the 30-day limit on prescription drugs; no new cases today - 23 April 2020 ................ 38 Some COVID-19 public health restrictions being lessened; no new cases - 24 April 2020 ............ 38 For-profit nursing homes provide 'inferior' care, new report claims ................................................ 39 Observational Evidence of For-Profit Delivery and Inferior Nursing Home Care: When Is There Enough Evidence for Policy Change? ............................................................................................ 39 New Brunswick News ........................................................................................................................ 40 Photostory: