Update from the New Brunswick barricades
A weekend of talks has failed to bring down the barricades in Rexton, New Brunswick.
A weekend of talks has failed to bring down the barricades in Rexton, New Brunswick.
New Brunswick Premier David Alward and Elsipogtog First Nation Chief Arren Sock walked out of a meeting Monday in Fredericton holding braids of sweetgrass and pledging more talks to end an anti-fracking highway blockade that continues in a northern part of the province beneath the shadow of a court injunction ordering its dismantling.
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.
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It’s been five days since Mi’kmaq people in New Brunswick and some of their allies erected a barricade on New Brunswick’s route 134.
First Nation protestors hope lines they draw in the sand today will be enough to stop the burgeoning industry in its tracks.
Tensions and passions continue on the front-line of a fracking protest in New Brunswick.
Tempers are flaring again in central New Brunswick.