Alton Natural Gas Storage Lp is not safe for the environment. The
brine the company intends to release into the Shubenacadie River is
acutely toxic to life.
brine the company intends to release into the Shubenacadie River is
acutely toxic to life.
On February 25, 2019 Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a
Notice of Intent, which confirms that the brine Alton Gas plans to
release into the river is a deleterious substance according to the
Fisheries Act and prohibited by Section 36(3). The project as currently
planned is against the law. Both the Province of Nova Scotia and Alton
Gas have maintained that this project is safe for the environment when
it clearly is not.
For the last 6 years, there has been a steady opposition to Alton Gas
from the public. The community is fighting tooth and nail to protect
Treaty Rights, fish and fish habitat, the Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic
Salmon, and the Shubenacadie River itself. The Alton Gas project poses a
threat to all of these things.