{"id":20317,"date":"2021-03-18T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=20317"},"modified":"2021-03-18T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:26:14","slug":"environment-close-to-local-ndp-candidate-mccarrons-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=20317","title":{"rendered":"Environment close to local NDP candidate McCarron\u2019s heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The NDP candidate for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank is focused on ensuing Nova Scotia\u2019s environment is looked after for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a sit-down interview at a local Fall River coffee shop with NDP Leader Gary Burrill in the community, Christina McCarron was asked why the environment is an important part of her early on platform for when a provincial election is called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think clearcutting our forests is too extreme,\u201d said McCarron. \u201cI think it\u2019s especially important for our environment that there be less clearcutting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the near extinction of the Mainland Moose is also a big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burrill said the questions is whether we as a species can summon the forces needed to deal with climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s been so sharply in the intergovernmental panel report which speaks of what is required,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a great challenge of our lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe focus and success of which we need it will define the shape of our lifetimes and that of generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke about balancing economy and environmental issues in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is both our environment and our economy or nothing, both which we now extremely know they are linked,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a general understanding of the growth, the investment, the development, the jobs, this is all for a sustainable economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe environment and economy are as closely intertwined as two worlds of concern can possibly be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;113&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;] FALL RIVER: The NDP candidate for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank is focused on ensuing Nova Scotia\u2019s environment is looked after for generations to come. During a sit-down interview at a local Fall River coffee shop with NDP Leader Gary Burrill in the community, Christina McCarron was asked why the environment is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[10,1694,513,2,1251,835],"class_list":["post-20317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beaver-bank","tag-christina-mccarron","tag-environment","tag-fall-river","tag-gary-burrill","tag-ndp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}