By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter An environmentalist warns that threats such as pharmaceutical and forest fire pollution in rivers and lakes haven’t been addressed in the New Brunswick government’s latest update on the province’s water protection strategy. Beverly Gingras, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick’s executive director, wrote a scathing letter to Environment Minister Gary Crossman Feb. 1 outlining her concerns that the latest version of the 10-year strategy – a midpoint update of the first version published in late 2017 – didn’t involve consultations with any environmental, conservation or Indigenous groups. She said her organization only found out about the Progressive Conservative government’s five-year update through some contacts in mid-January. “They released it very quietly and they didn’t do a press release on this,” she said in…
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