RCMP block road to Alton Gas site as they urge protesters to leave | CBC News
RCMP have closed a rural road north of Halifax where protesters
are blocking the site of a controversial natural gas project at Fort
Ellis.
are blocking the site of a controversial natural gas project at Fort
Ellis.
The blockade was set up more than two years ago by
Indigenous protesters opposed to a plan by Alton Gas to create large
underground caverns to store natural gas.
The protesters are
worried the nearby Shubenacadie River will be polluted if the company
moves ahead with its plan to flush out underground salt deposits and
then dump the brine into the river.