{"id":47784,"date":"2019-08-13T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47784"},"modified":"2019-08-13T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:54:12","slug":"i-want-them-to-have-justice-inside-the-fight-to-save-the-shubenacadie-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47784","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Want Them to Have Justice\u2019: Inside the Fight to Save the Shubenacadie River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/08\/13\/The-Fight-To-Save-Shubenacadie-River\/\">\u2018I Want Them to Have Justice\u2019: Inside the Fight to Save the Shubenacadie River<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In Nova Scotia, water protectors have fiercely opposed a gas company\u2019s plans for a decade, helped by a celebrity supporter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/08\/12\/Dale-Poulette-final2.jpg\" alt=\"Dale-Poulette-final2.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Can \u2018water protectors\u2019 like Dale Poulette (seen above) and his partner Rachael Greenland-Smith win a war against governments and a resource company over the future of a grand river and the people it helps to sustain?&nbsp;Still from&nbsp;<em>There\u2019s Something in the Water<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is so quiet on the banks of the Shubenacadie you can almost hear the river breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Standing by the Treaty Truckhouse with Rachael Greenland-Smith and Dale Poulette, the instinct is to fall silent. The landscape draws you in with elemental power \u2014 an Alex Colville painting come to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue sky above, tawny long grass below, all of it bisected by the reddish tidal waters of the Shubenacadie. The only sound is the flapping of the Indigenous Unity flag when the wind picks up from the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RCMP didn\u2019t want any flags flying on nearby Treaty Island, but Mi\u2019kmaq water protectors felt they had no choice. They believed that the Alton Gas company\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/altonnaturalgasstorage.ca\/about\/alton-natural-gas-storage-lp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">storage project<\/a>, which would dump huge amounts of brine into the Shubenacadie, would endanger the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company wants to build massive underground caverns to store natural gas. It would use river water to flush out salt deposits at a site 12 kilometres away, creating the caverns. The salty water would then be pumped back into the river over a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/08\/12\/Shubenacadie-River.jpg\" alt=\"582px version of Shubenacadie-River.jpg\"\/><figcaption>The reddish tidal waters of the Shubenacadie.&nbsp;Photo by Michael Harris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I Want Them to Have Justice\u2019: Inside the Fight to Save the Shubenacadie River In Nova Scotia, water protectors have fiercely opposed a gas company\u2019s plans for a decade, helped by a celebrity supporter. It is so quiet on the banks of the Shubenacadie you can almost hear the river breathe. 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