RCMP vacates Elsipogtog First Nation detachment
The RCMP vacated their detachment on Elsipogtog First Nation following a police raid on an anti-fracking encampment just north of the community.
The RCMP vacated their detachment on Elsipogtog First Nation following a police raid on an anti-fracking encampment just north of the community.
(Video, editing by Tom Fennario/APTN) APTN National News Over 100 Mi’kmaq and supporters briefly blocked…
Beneath an overcast October night veiling the moon, with police lights spraying the darkness red and blue, a group of four women walked up the exit ramp blocked by the RCMP cruisers.
More than 100 Mi’kmaq and supporters briefly blocked a main highway in New Brunswick Saturday afternoon in response to an RCMP raid on an anti-fracking encampment Thursday.
(RCMP officers display cache of weapons seized during Thursday’s raid. APTN/Photo) APTN National News FREDERICTON,…
In Ottawa the Liberal and NDP Aboriginal affairs critics respond to the situation in New Brunswick.
In New Brunswick the protest turned into a violent confrontation.
It all started Thursday morning, when RCMP moved in on protestors manning a barricade in Rexton, New Brunswick.
Heavily armed RCMP officers, some clad in full camouflage and wielding assault weapons, moved in early Thursday morning to enforce an injunction against a Mi’kmaq barricade that has trapped exploration vehicles belonging to a Houston-based firm conducting shale gas exploration in New Brunswick.
Days after Elsipogtog Chief Arren Sock demanded Houston-based firm SWN Resources Canada leave New Brunswick, he sat at a hotel conference table with the province’s premier discussing a strategy that would see the company stay and continue its controversial shale gas exploration work, APTN National News has learned.