Late Monday evening, after the tires were set on fire, a group of anti-fracking demonstrators round danced against a backdrop of flames in the middle of a New Brunswick highway while they waited for the RCMP to respond.
Demonstrations continued Monday against the exploration work of a Houston-based energy firm looking for shale gas deposits along a New Brunswick highway.
Five people were arrested while RCMP officers and cruisers were pelted with rocks as confrontations continued Friday on a New Brunswick highway where a Houston-based energy company is trying to complete shale gas exploration work.
A few dozen protestors braved heavy wind and rain to voice their concerns over shale gas exploration.
SWN Resources Canada continued its seismic testing along the highway near Rexton.
Trucks belonging Houston-based SWN Resources were back looking for shale gas deposits in eastern New Brunswick yesterday.
Tensions were high at times as the company has an injunction against protestors so it can get its work done before winter.
Lorraine Claire was arrested while protesting against shale gas exploration last week.
For months protestors – many from the Elsipogtog First Nation – have faced off against the RCMP.
While members of Elsipogtog played a central role in the protests none of them are named in this injunction.
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