“Everything is connected to water,” says Brittany Cormier, executive director of EOS Eco-Energy. “And we are as well.”
CHMA talks with Cormier about how the organization keeps tabs on the region’s brooks and streams with funding from the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund, which is set to run out of money in 2027 because of changes to the province’s beverage container program. Revenues from the ETF is a major source of funds for water quality monitoring by organizations throughout the province.
Cormier sees the end of the revenue stream for the ETF as making room for possible improvements to the way the New Brunswick funds watershed monitoring. “I’m banking on that,” says Cormier. “I have rose-coloured glasses, and I hope that this is going to be a turn for the better.”
