Alton Natural Gas Storage

• Nova Scotia First Nation loses bid to add new evidence in Alton Gas case

  The band says the affidavit shows the Sipekne'katik First Nation did not have the resources "to engage in meaningful consultation with the province."

  Environment

  Jan 24, 2020
  
• N.S. RCMP arrest 3 ‘grassroots grandmothers’ as officers enforce injunction at Alton Gas site

  The injunction says that protesters Dale Poulette, his partner Rachael Greenland-Smith and others must stop occupying a two-storey mud-and-straw hut on the site. 

  Environment

  Apr 10, 2019
  
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• Nova Scotia court grants injunction against Mi’kmaq protester at Alton Gas site

  The company, Alton Natural Gas Storage, is behind a plan to store natural gas in huge underground caverns north of Halifax.

  Canada

  Mar 18, 2019
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• Halifax court battle over access to Alton Gas site focuses on Indigenous rights

  Alton Natural Gas Storage wants the court to issue an injunction that would ensure workers have access to the site near the Shubenacadie River.

  Environment

  Mar 12, 2019
• Nova Scotia review of ‘conquered people’ brief complete, but minister won’t comment

  Nova Scotia's justice minister says her department has completed its review of how a controversial legal brief implying the Mi'kmaq are a conquered people made it to court.

  Canada

  Apr 19, 2017
• Indian Brook First Nation to continue to fight gas storage facility

  Members of Indian Brook First Nation say they've filed an appeal in Nova Scotia Supreme Court to stop a gas storage facility currently under construction north of their community in Fort Ellis.

  Environment

  May 2, 2016
• N.S. government approves contentious proposal for Alton underground gas storage

  The project would see Alton develop three salt caverns about 1,000 metres underground.

  Economy

  Jan 21, 2016