Yesterday, Council of Canadians climate campaigner Maryam Adrangi (kneeling, front row) and those attending a non-violent direct action training in Yarrow (about 90 kilometres west of Vancouver) expressed their solidarity with the no-fracking struggle in New Brunswick.
They were gathered to train in opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. Kinder Morgan wants to twin a 550,000 barrels a day pipeline with the existing 300,000 bpd pipeline from Alberta to Metro Vancouver. The company plans to apply to the National Energy Board for permission in late-2013 and wants the pipeline-twinning to be operational by 2017.
We are receiving word that SWN Resources may soon move their fracking-testing from the junction of Highway 126/ Route 116 in Kent County, New Brunswick eastward on Route 116 (and the communities of Bass River and Targettville), which are on the Richibucto River Estuary and upstream from the Elsipogtog First Nation and Kouchibouguac National Park (on the Northumberland Strait which separates the eastern tip of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island).
Over the past three weeks, there have been 29 arrests from both Mi’kmaq and non-Indigenous communities in the non-violent protests against fracking and SWN Resources. Among those arrested, Council of Canadians Fredericton chapter activist Mark D’Arcy.
For more, please read:
UPDATE: Silnicki to visit Sacred Fire protest against fracking
NEWS: Trans Mountain pipeline spills south of Kamloops
