“These proposed regulations essentially describe an exception to the Fisheries Act, and that particular section that is affected is really important in terms of protecting our fisheries and our Treaty fisheries,” says Beaton.
Nova Scotia records should be released in unconquered people case: Appeal Court
Cameron was removed as government counsel in an Aboriginal rights
case in December 2016 after suggesting in a legal brief the Mi’kmaq were
a conquered people who were owed no duty of consultation.
The brief was part of the government’s defence when the Sipekne’katik
Band sought to overturn provincial approval of a plan by Alton Gas to
store natural gas in salt caverns near the Shubenacadie River.
Amid an outcry from the Mi’kmaq and others, the government withdrew the brief and disowned the argument.
The province has 30 days to appeal the latest ruling to the Supreme
Court of Canada, although Premier Stephen McNeil told reporters
Thursday no decision on an appeal has been made.
Mi’kmaw grandmothers to launch land title claim against Alton Gas project | CBC News
Their lawyer, Michael
McDonald, told the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Wednesday that the claim is
based on the 1752 treaty with the Crown and the notice of motion is for
an Aboriginal title claim for the lands currently being used by Alton
Gas.
McDonald said an injunction will also be filed to prevent
Alton Gas from doing further work along the Shubenacadie River at Fort
Ellis, while the title claim is being settled.
Alton Gas: it ain’t over til it’s over – Nova Scotia Advocate
KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – It’s very tough going for the Alton Gas water protectors these days.
Freedom of Information documents and emails recently released to the
Alton Gas water protectors reveal how they have been correct all along
when they say the project rests on a shaky legal foundation.
Ellen Page visits Alton Gas site in support of Indigenous water protectors
“Humbled and honoured to have spent time with the extraordinary Dorene Bernard and other grassroots grandmothers and water protectors to learn more about how they are protecting the water and land from Alton Gas and the Nova Scotia Government and the best ways to support,” Page wrote in an Instagram post to her two million followers Monday.