Alton Natural Gas Storage Project LP Archives

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ku’ku’kwes News Top 10 Popular News Stories of 2017

December 29, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Alton Natural Gas Storage Project Opposition against the Alton Gas Natural Storage Project near Stewiake, N.S. continued into 2017. Alton Gas wants to create underground storage caverns by flushing out the salt deposits using water […]

Sipekne’katik councillor says band members not interested in Alton Gas benefits deal

May 25, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A majority of Sipekne’katik Band members who attended a community meeting have told their elected officials they’re not interested in negotiating a benefits package with Alton Gas, says one band councillor who attended the meeting. […]

Eskasoni man camps at Alton site to protect river, practice treaty rights

April 19, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Dale Poulette has been calling the Shubenacadie riverbank near Stewiacke, N.S. home since September 2016. “It’s very relaxing. It’s really good for the mind,” Poulette explains. I think it’s helping me get back to Mother […]

Sipekne’katik wins legal victory in appeal of Alton gas project

January 30, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia First Nation has won a legal victory against the provincial government and a company that wants to dump salt brine water into the Shubenacadie River. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Suzanne Hood has quashed the […]

March organized in Halifax to support Standing Rock’s opposition to Dakota pipeline

November 6, 2016 Maureen Googoo

More than 200 people gathered and marched in Halifax on November 5 to show their support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s ongoing fight against a company’s plans to construct an oil pipeline in North […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]