Sipekne’katik makes strong case to UARB on Alton Gas consultation issues – Nova Scotia Advocate
“With respect to the seriousness of the potential adverse effect to
Sipekne’katik’s rights from the Alton Gas project, the project not only
impacts Sipekne’katik’s fishing rights and the ability to earn a
moderate livelihood through the exercise of established treaty rights,
it also threatens Sipekne’katik’s domestic economy, cultural and social
life as the community uses and depends on the Shubenacadie and Stewiacke
river and the surrounding lands as a source of food, for spiritual
practices, and for medicinal, ceremonial, conservation and cultural
knowledge purposes,” the letter states.