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By ahnationtalk on December 11, 2019
By ahnationtalk on December 11, 2019
By ahnationtalk on December 11, 2019
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by ahnationtalk on August 13, 201934 Views
In Nova Scotia, water protectors have fiercely opposed a gas company’s plans for a decade, helped by a celebrity supporter.
It is so quiet on the banks of the Shubenacadie you can almost hear the river breathe.
Standing by the Treaty Truckhouse with Rachael Greenland-Smith and Dale Poulette, the instinct is to fall silent. The landscape draws you in with elemental power — an Alex Colville painting come to life.
Blue sky above, tawny long grass below, all of it bisected by the reddish tidal waters of the Shubenacadie. The only sound is the flapping of the Indigenous Unity flag when the wind picks up from the river.
The RCMP didn’t want any flags flying on nearby Treaty Island, but Mi’kmaq water protectors felt they had no choice. They believed that the Alton Gas company’s storage project, which would dump huge amounts of brine into the Shubenacadie, would endanger the river.
Read More: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/13/The-Fight-To-Save-Shubenacadie-River/
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