“Alton Gas has chosen to drop the legal gavel on this grassroots group
of Indigenous Water Protectors even while it ignores recent Federal
environmental developments. Alton Gas knows that Environment and Climate
Change Canada announced the intention of developing regulations
governing the deposit of brine. This is the exact environmental risk
that the Alton Gas Project represents to the Shubenacadie River. You
would think that Alton Gas would wait to see what the new regulations
regarding dumping brine in a river look like before proceeding legally
but this is not the case,” says Jenkinson.