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Indigenous leaders warn of protests, halting developments over shale gas exemption | CBC News

Top Indigenous leaders are warning that the Higgs government
has made “a serious mistake” on shale gas that may reignite protests
like those seen in the Rexton area in 2013.

They say the
province’s duty to consult Indigenous people is clearly defined, and the
government should have known how to proceed as it tries to restart the
industry in one part of the province.

“It’s not as if this is all
new,” said Roger Augustine, the regional chief for the Assembly of First
Nations in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. “The blueprint is
there.”

“There’s a lot of case law,” said Chief George Ginnish of
Natoaganeg First Nation. “There are actual court cases. … If he needs
clarity, we’ll certainly provide clarity if that’s what he needs.”

June 8, 2019

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New Brunswick’s Indigenous chiefs issue warning against Tory OK of gas fracking

The process known as fracking involves pumping water and chemicals deep underground at high pressure to fracture layers of shale and release pockets of gas.

Higgs’s move fulfils a commitment his minority government made in its throne speech earlier this year and is in line with his party’s past support of the process.

However, the organization that represents Mi’kmaq chiefs – Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Inc., or MTI – denounced the step as secretive and a step backwards in the province’s relationship with Indigenous populations.

A 2016 final report of a commission on the shale gas issue had urged the province to rebuild its relationship with Indigenous peoples, and to maintain the moratorium introduced in 2014 by the Liberals.

June 6, 2019

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PCs give shale gas development quiet go-ahead in Sussex area | CBC News

Higgs told reporters that his cabinet approved an order-in-council carving out an exception to a province-wide moratorium.

“We’ve
done the modifications necessary on the current regulation,” he said
during a scrum on economic development issues. “My goal is to be able to
tell Corridor [Resources] within a month’s timeframe that we are open
for business.”

Corridor Resources started extracting gas in the Sussex area since 1999 but halted new fracking after the Liberal government of Brian Gallant imposed its moratorium after the 2014 election.

June 5, 2019

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McNeil government’s fracking ban remains a work in progress | CBC News

Nova Scotia continues to have a moratorium on fracking in name
only and there appears to be no plan to hurry the process along to
ensure a law passed more than four years ago outlawing “high volume
hydraulic fracturing” is brought into force.

Simon d’Entremont,
deputy minister of the Department of Energy and Mines, and his colleague
Sandy MacMullin, spent more than 90 minutes before a legislature
committee Tuesday talking about the controversial practice of natural
gas extraction, but never once said when a ban on fracking would be
proclaimed.

April 24, 2019

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Fracking connection probed in 4.6-magnitude earthquake near Sylvan Lake

Natural Resources Canada said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of central Alberta just before 6 a.m. The federal department’s website said the tremor was classified as a light earthquake.

The AER has confirmed Vesta Energy had been fracking in the area just prior to the quake, which was detected by the company’s private seismic monitoring devices around 12 kilometres south of Sylvan Lake at a magnitude of 4.16.

March 5, 2019

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