The Mi’kmaq Warriors Society opposes plans for a fossil fuel-burning plant in Tantramar, says district war chief Jason Augustine of Elsipogtog.
If NB Power’s plans proceed, it could result a confrontation similar to the 2013 movement against shale gas exploration in New Brunswick, Augustine said in an interview with the NB Media Co-op.
“Anything that is there to destroy our land, warriors will always oppose it,” said Augustine, who stressed that the facility is slated for construction on unceded Mi'kmaq territory.
“All we want is to have our traditional medicine going — our traditional food, our traditional hunting, traditional fishing… our traditional rights.”
NB Power’s planned generating station, if it goes forward, will burn gas that originates from a controversial process known as fracking, supplied by the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline.
The use of fracked gas raises the specter of past shale gas exploration by the company SWN Resources, an effort that was met by a Mi’kmaq-led resistance movement.
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