In a clear case of overkill, the RCMP (?) have converged on the peaceful anti fracking protest in Mikmaq territory with the intent to enforce an injunction against the protesters. Snipers, dogs and escalating conflict unfolding. Media on hand. (at left RCMP Sniper Team and Tactical response unit) This should come as no surprise. The corporate elitists are scrambling to survive as more and more people become aware and fed up. Everywhere you turn, people are fed up, young and old, man, woman, child, working stiffs and unemployed, people are fed up with the crap.
Other provinces (such as Ontario) have relaxed long standing tough environmental laws in order to cash in on getting shale gas through the “fracking” practice of extraction. Problem is that “fracking” causes a disproportionate amount of long term pollution and for little short term gain. Its simply another shortsighted business where local government gets a small stipend from a private company but then in the long term sticks it’s constituents (ie voters, citizens, people that live there) with costs of clean up and destruction of their lands.
Perhaps if this started in one of Canada’s larger population center’s ,such as Ontario, it would have been a non-starter as local protests would have shut it the whole fracking process down. Thus probably why it is being field tested in smaller province (New Brunswick) that has minimal political influence, and on top of that on Native Land– being that aboriginal people’s there are already marginalized politically and might not draw attention or sympathy from the larger Canadian populace.
The Mi’kmaqpeople’s there (Rexton,New Brunswick)are protesting against fracking and THIS IS THE FRONT LINE!(note: this is also the same company involved in poisoning large swathes of Pennsylvania in the United States!). Other peoples need to stand beside them in this fight. It is not just a “native issue”. We all drink the same water and breath the same air. Canadians need to start saying FUCK NO about fracking and the so called political leadership need to start listening to them, NOT to corporate interests! -Evil von Scarry
