natural gas

Exclusive: New Brunswick RCMP, Pennsylvania police, FBI, share 'best practices' on policing shale gas

Miles Howe — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:10:25 +0000

Travel itinerary, budget approval, obtained for June 2014 meetings

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- Through an Access to Information request, the Halifax Media Co-op has obtained a partial travel itinerary and approved budgetary expense request for six high ranking officers from New Brunswick RCMP's J Division to visit their “counterparts” in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to “learn from their experience with shale gas development.”

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Ecology Action Centre wants NS to keep shale gas in the ground for now

Erica Butler — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:36:36 +0000

A conversation with Jennifer West on the EAC's report to the Nova Scotia fracking review

This week the Ecology Action Centre released their contribution to the review panel looking at hydraulic

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Jan 24 Mi'kmaq Warriors - Suzanne Patles @ SFU H/C Strategy Session

dgSolidarity — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:19:04 +0000

Suzanne Patles, one of many warriors attacked in a dawn raid by RCMP (physically assaulted with assault rifles) along with many youth, elders and community members for peacefully trying to protect their water by blockading fracking equipment, shares her experiences at a strategy session as part of the Mi’kmaq Warriors west coast speaking tour.

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Jan 24 Mi'kmaq Warriors - Coady Jipol @ SFU H/C Strategy Session

dgSolidarity — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:55:47 +0000

Coady shares his personal story, which turns the scholarly term ‘transgenerational historic trauma’ into an easily understood truth, and explains why he had no choice but to become a warrior to attempt to end the colonial-serving cycle of violence he has been born into.

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Showdown in Elsipogtog

Tim McSorley — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:17:00 +0000

Seven months of shale gas resistance in New Brunswick

K'JIPUKTUK (HALIFAX)—In early June, I walked with Suzanne Patles from Eskasoni First Nation and two Mi'kmaq women from Elsipogtog First Nation along Highway 126 near Harcourt, New Brunswick. People told us not to go, not to approach the seismic testing trucks; that people had been arrested earlier in the day; that there would be trouble.

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1,500 At Fredericton, NB Anti-Fracking Rally

Miles Howe — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:47:59 +0000

Over 1,500 people from across New Brunswick and beyond marched through Fredericton yesterday to demand an end to hydraulic fracking and shale gas exploration in the province.

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