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OTTAWA, Canada Anti-fracking demonstrators set tires ablaze to block a New Brunswick highway Monday in a fiery response to a judges decision to extend an injunction limiting their protests against a Texas-based shale gas exploration company.
In a courtroom in Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, Judge Paulette Garnett ruled to continue through Dec. 17 the injunction obtained by SWN Resources Canada against a coalition of protesters led by Mikmaq indigenous people from the Elsipogtog First Nation.
The injunction, which SWN obtained on Nov. 22, is designed to keep protesters from interfering with SWNs seismic testing work. It requires that demonstrators remain at least 250 yards in front of or behind contractors and their vehicles and 20 yards to the side.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/2/canada-anti-frackingprotestersanswerinjunctionextensionwithblock.html
Fracking, I have read many articles, from land owners being ripped off by contracts and water you can light on fire, its not just in the good old USA but Big Oil has no boundries, they just take, like the Mafia of old, just pay off the right/wrong people and the sky is the limit.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)There has been issues with Big Oil here for years...we even had our very own eco-terrorist here in Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiebo_Ludwig) because of issues with the Oil companies and land owners here. My now-ex narrowly escaped being in the path of one of Wiebo's bombs (he worked on some of the leases that were bombed and at one lease he left only an hour or 2 before the bomb went off). Sadly, I don't think Wiebo will be the last if the Oil companies keep it up.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)If this continues unabated, we are screwed.