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June 13, 2025

Alton Gas Storage

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Mi’kmaw lawyer wants Alton to stop work until court injunction is decided

October 29, 2019 Maureen Googoo
The lawyer (from this site) representing three Mi’kmaw women challenging a proposed permanent court injunction filed by the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project wants all current work at the site to stop while the issue […]
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Mi’kmaw water protectors to cite Aboriginal title as defence against Alton Gas injunction

April 18, 2019 Maureen Googoo
Three Mi’kmaw women charged with violating a temporary court injunction in place at the Alton Gas project site near Stewiake, N.S. plan to launch an Aboriginal title claim to fight the charges against them. The […]
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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw water protectors arrested at Alton Gas site for violating court injunction

April 11, 2019 Maureen Googoo
Three Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw women water protectors who were occupying the entrance to a natural gas storage facilities site are expected to appear in court in Halifax Apr. 17 after they were arrested and taken […]
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Mi’kmaw water protectors remain at Alton site entrance, hold ceremony

March 22, 2019 Maureen Googoo
Water protectors were still occupying the entrance to the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project site in Fort Ellis, N.S. four days after a Nova Scotia judge granted the company’s request for a temporary injunction against […]
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Nova Scotia judge grants temporary injunction against Mi’kmaw water protector, supporters

March 19, 2019 Maureen Googoo
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has granted the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project company a temporary injunction against a Mi’kmaw water protector and his supporters currently occupying the entrance to the company’s property in […]
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Mi’kmaw man’s lawyer wants court injunction by Alton Gas dismissed

March 13, 2019 Maureen Googoo
A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia denies he is blocking employees with Alton Natural Gas Storage Project Inc. from accessing company facilities along the Shubenacadie River near Stewiake, N.S. A lawyer […]
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Alton Natural Gas Project opponents stage sit-in at company entrance

September 26, 2016 Maureen Googoo
A group that opposes the Alton Natural Gas Project moved its occupation from the Shubenacadie riverbank to the gated driveway of the project site in Fort Ellis, N.S. to stage a sit-in Monday morning. The […]
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Sipekne’katik Chief says Alton Gas will take legal action if eel traps remain on project site

September 18, 2016 Maureen Googoo
The Chief of the Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia says company executives with the Alton Gas Natural Storage Project have threatened legal action against the band and the protesters if the eel traps placed in […]
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Group calls tiny island at Alton site traditional Mi’kmaw territory, builds teepee

September 12, 2016 Maureen Googoo
A group that opposes the Alton Natural Gas Storage project along the Shubenacadie River near Stewiake, N.S. has set up a teepee frame on a tiny, man-made island in the river to mark it as […]
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Protesters build treaty “truckhouse” near Alton Natural Gas Storage project site

September 6, 2016 Maureen Googoo
Protesters against a company’s plan to store natural gas in underground salt caverns near Alton, N.S. are turning to an article in the 1752 Peace and Friendship Treaty to step up their opposition to the […]
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Judge dismisses Sipekne’katik’s request for a stay in Alton Gas project

July 13, 2016 Maureen Googoo
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has dismissed the Sipekne’katik Band’s request to delay the Alton Natural Gas Storage project until a decision is made in its court appeal of the same project. In a […]
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Sipekne’katik asks court to delay Alton Gas project until decision on appeal is made

June 23, 2016 Maureen Googoo
The Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia is asking a Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice to grant a stay of the provincial government’s decision to approve the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project. The band wants the […]
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Court dates set in appeal of Alton Natural Gas Project

May 31, 2016 Maureen Googoo
Court dates have been set in the appeal of the Alton Natural Gas storage project approvals in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax. Lawyers for the Sipekne’katik Band will argue for a stay of the […]
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Alton Gas to re-fence worksite along Shubenacadie River

April 29, 2016 Maureen Googoo
The fence at the Alton Natural Gas Storage project site along the banks of the Shubenacadie River in Fort Ellis, N.S. is going back up. In a letter to Sipekne’katik Chief Rufus Copage dated April […]
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Alton Gas partially removes fence around construction site in Fort Ellis, N.S.

April 28, 2016 Maureen Googoo
The Chief of the Sipekne’katik Band says he is satisfied Alton Gas has removed a portion of its fence around the construction site in Fort Ellis, N.S. so band members can fish along the banks […]

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