Department of Environment and Local Government (New Brunswick)
department in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
The Department of Environment and Local Government is a part of the Government of New Brunswick. It is charged with maintaining relationships with New Brunswick's municipalities, administering its unincorporated Local Service Districts and the administration of its environmental policy, including the Province's Environmental Impact Assessment Regulation.
The department was established on March 23, 2000 when Premier Bernard Lord restructured the New Brunswick Cabinet. It was a merger of the former Department of Environment and part of the former Department of Municipalities and Housing. On February 14, 2006 it was split into the Department of Environment and the Department of Local Government. On March 15, 2012 it was re-established when the departments of Environment and Local Government were merged under the incumbent Minister of Local Government Bruce Fitch.
Ministers
* Holder continued as minister in the new Department of Environment.
** Fitch had been serving as minister of local government.
“Department of Environment and Local Government (New Brunswick)” enters the record as department in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Department, Environment and Local can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Department of Environment and Local Government (New Brunswick)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Department, Environment and Local provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3315212. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2006 and 2012.
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How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Department of Environment and Local Government (New Brunswick)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.