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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" class="">Join protectors Dorene Bernard, grassroots grandmother;
Dale Poulette, Treaty Truckhouse organizer; and Alan Knockwood, Sipekne’katik
elder and pipe carrier to learn about their struggle to protect the water,
climate, Indigenous rights, and environmental rights by stopping the Alton Gas
Project. Meet and hear these three speak Friday </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" class=""><font color="#7b219f" class=""><b class="">May 12, 7 PM at the Mahone Bay
Centre, 45 School Stree, Mahone Bay.</b></font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Mi’kmaq and non-Indigenous communities near the
Shubenacadie River have been organizing resistance to the planned Alton Gas
project for several years. This project would create massive underground
natural gas storage caverns, see hundreds of thousands of tonnes of salt dumped
into the Shubenacadie River in a matter of months, and would risk water
contamination, methane leaks, and expansion of the fossil fuel industry in
Atlantic Canada.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">
The project was given the go ahead by the NS government despite a lack of
consultation, multiple failures by the company, and clear and united opposition
by the affected communities. When confronted with their failure to gain consent
for this project by the Sipekne’katik Band Council, the NS Government declared
the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaq a “conquered people”, so their consent was not
required for the project to go forward. A court decision on January 28th ruled
otherwise, and has opened the way for Mi’kmaq and settler community members
from across this province to speak out about protecting our rivers.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">This tour was made possible by the tireless efforts of
grassroots Mi'kmaq people, with help from student allies in Halifax,
Responsible Energy Action, The Loaded Ladle, Fernwood Publishing, the Council
of Canadians, and the Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Social
Change.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" class="">#stopaltongas</span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" class="">
</span><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" class="">#nsenvirorights</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); letter-spacing: -0.15pt; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Live streaming on FB </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lobI_OHr_sw&feature=youtu.be" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lobI_OHr_sw&feature=youtu.be</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://stopaltongas.wordpress.com" class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">http://stopaltongas.wordpress.com</font></a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="1224" width="792" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="0AAD6DE2-852D-47B0-A55A-352BC41D9027" src="cid:899498BA-64B8-4039-94E2-DE5A0345BCEC" class=""></div>
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