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Petitcodiac River

July-August 2010

Moncton groups spar over Petitcodiac River’s future

Andrew Livingstone

When the New Brunswick government built a controversial causeway splitting the Petitcodiac River in 1968, Moncton’s 129 km river quickly came to look like something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which is how it earned its local nickname, the “Chocolate River“). It didn’t take long for tempers to boil over too: conservationists have […] More »