Ottawa is starting to put the financial squeeze on a Mi’kmaq First Nation in retribution for ongoing anti-fracking protests that have led to a looming confrontation at a highway blockade in New Brunswick, according to a band councillor.
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It’s been five days since Mi’kmaq people in New Brunswick and some of their allies erected a barricade on New Brunswick’s route 134.
Tempers are flaring again in central New Brunswick.
In New Brunswick protestors continue clashes with police over hydraulic fracturing or fracking as it is known.
Tensions in New Brunswick have flared over the possible development of shale gas.
As tensions continue to escalate at an anti-fracking protest in northern New Brunswick, the chief of a First Nation in the midst of the action is calling on the provincial government to cool things down.
In New Brunswick tensions are rising in an on-going battle against shale gas exploration.
Many people have been looking for First Nation leadership to support an ongoing battle against fracking in northern New Brunswick.
Unspecified “industrial equipment” was torched early Tuesday morning near the area of an ongoing anti-fracking protest in northern New Brunswick, says the RCMP, as tensions continue to rise in as a result of ongoing police action against demonstrators there.
