Protesters block Nova Scotia’s Hwy 102 in support of B.C. anti-pipeline protests

By Rebecca Lau, Global News, Jan 15, 2019

Supporters in Nova Scotia blocked a portion of Highway 102 on Tuesday morning to demonstrate solidarity with anti-pipeline protests in British Columbia.

Protesters say they were holding a peaceful protest, which took place near Exit 10 at Shubenacadie, N.S.

Stop Alton Gas

Mi’kmaq and non-Indigenous allies are actively opposing the completion of the Alton Gas project near Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, and we’re calling for your assistance.

Alton Gas proposes to create two salt caverns in the near future in order to store natural gas underground, with the expressed intention to build  up to 15 more . The creation of these caverns would result in huge quantities of highly concentrated salt brine, which the company plans to dump down the Shubenacadie River.

Indigenous fisherman’s boat vanishes after Comeauville wharf fire

Fishing boats Amanda’s Pride and Buck and Doe in Nova Scota.

Vessel was later located burning in the middle of St. Marys Bay, RCMP confirm

By Anjuli Patil, CBC News, October 9, 2017

When Alex McDonald arrived at the Comeauville wharf in Digby County, N.S., on Monday afternoon to find his lobster boat missing, he said he was “stunned.”

The part of the wharf where McDonald’s boat — named Buck and Doe — had been moored was scorched and the seven thick ropes that kept it there burned off.

Lawyer removed from Alton Gas case after inflammatory arguments

Sipekne’katik Band councillor Cheryl Maloney, right, questions Alton Gas security about the location of a fence along the Shubenacadie River in October. (FRANCIS CAMPBELL / Local Xpress / File)

Alex Cameron, a lawyer who argued on behalf of the provincial government that the Sipekne’katik Band was a conquered people, has been removed from the Alton Gas case that is before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.

by Francis Campbell, Local Xpress, December 8, 2016

The lawyer who disparaged Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaq population in a divisive legal brief presented to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court has been removed from the Alton Gas case.

Mi’kmaq protesters block entrance at proposed Alton gas storage site

By Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press, September 26, 2016

Mi’kmaq protesters are blocking access to a construction site near proposed natural gas storage caverns in Nova Scotia, saying the project threatens a tidal river that passes through their traditional lands.

Mi’kmaq set up camp against AltaGas storage facility

The Canadian Press, September 12, 2016

STEWIACKE, N.S. — The RCMP says it is staying “neutral” as AltaGas Ltd. and Mi’kmaq protesters are at odds over aboriginal presence on a tiny island near the energy company’s proposed underground natural gas storage caverns.

Opponents of the Alton storage project briefly went out Sunday to the small island that formed where the tidal Shubenacadie River meets a channel in which briny water is to be discharged.