Talks with N.B. premier buy Elsipogtog three days of 'peace'
By Jorge Barrera APTN National News ELSIPOGTOG FIRST NATION, N.B. – Ongoing talks between Premier…
By Jorge Barrera APTN National News ELSIPOGTOG FIRST NATION, N.B. – Ongoing talks between Premier…
Elsipogtog Chief, NB Premier keep talks going as blockade continuesA round of high-level talks between New Brunswick Premier David Alward and Elsipogtog Chief Arren Sock have begun with the aim of ending a more than week-long anti-fracking blockade on a highway in the northern part of the province.
The Mi’kmaq Warrior Society says it was “cut out” of a meeting with New Brunswick Premier David Alward to discuss a possible resolution to an ongoing, anti-fracking blockade in the northern part of the province.
Ottawa is starting to put the financial squeeze on a Mi’kmaq First Nation in retribution for ongoing anti-fracking protests that have led to a looming confrontation at a highway blockade in New Brunswick, according to a band councillor.
In New Brunswick protestors continue clashes with police over hydraulic fracturing or fracking as it is known.
The Mi’kmaq Warriors Society in New Brunswick wants to meet with a new RCMP Unit formed to deal with fracking protests.
He says he’s a warrior chief defending the land from environmental destruction.
By Jorge Barrera APTN National News An independent reporter charged Thursday by the RCMP in…
As tensions continue to escalate at an anti-fracking protest in northern New Brunswick, the chief of a First Nation in the midst of the action is calling on the provincial government to cool things down.