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A group of protesters gathered in Saskatoon have expressed complete support for the Elsipogtog First Nation, along with other participating in anti-fracking demonstrations, in New Brunswick. Things got out of hands during a protest on Thursday, when Molotov cocktails were tossed at officers, police vehicles were torched, which resulted in protesters being sprayed with tear gas by authorities in eastern New Brunswick in attempt to end the demonstration against an energy company. RCMP later revealed that dozens of people were arrested.
Meanwhile, supporters in Saskatoon convened at the edge of the University of Saskatchewan campus for their own peaceful demonstration against the incident on Friday. One of the protesters, Serena Gamble, expressed that she was deeply saddened to see police reaction against what she claims was a peaceful protest against the energy company in New Brunswick. She alleged “how it went from a peaceful protest to an act of violence, of course that is going to upset anybody. It’s just an injustice.”
The protestors in New Brunswick had gathered against the shale gas sector complaining about the process used to extract the resource, i.e. hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, alleging that it results in drinking water pollution. Meanwhile, industry officials claim that these are only exaggerated concerns. A participant in protest at Saskatoon, Mark Bigland Pritchard, explained that “it’s really dangerous what is going on. We don’t know what chemicals they are proposing to push down into the earth.” It was added that “it’s not just the local people who are at threat from this. It’s all of us through climate change.”
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It appears the RCMP had their own cars torched.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur, James Anaya, who came in Canada from 8 till 15 October to inquire about First Nations, left days before one other example of what they face. The people living in Elsipogtog reserve dcomment_ID not want exploratory drillings for shall gases in their region. They raised a barricade which policemen dismantled by force October 17. The Chief and the band council of this reserve are in the group of forty persons who were arrested during these events.
The Elsipogtog’s people assert that they cannot accept passively the risk to see their region groundwater being contaminated with chemicals injected in the ground to extract gas. The 2011 Gasland movie made in the United States shows the dangers of such exploitation. It shows countrymen setting fire their tap water after wells were dug near their house. Many countries and provinces have already expressed by legal way their anxiety to see this situation occurring. France voted for a law in 2011, which forbcomment_IDs this kind of drillings. Quebec has for its part imposed in 2013 a total moratorium on this type of exploitation. In New Brunswick, chief medical officer of health, Eilish Cleary, recommendations concerning shale gas development show a lack of knowledge about its effect on rescomment_IDent’s health (http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/h-s/pdf/en/HealthyEnvironments/Recommendations_ShaleGasDevelopment.pdf).
But it is the governments of Canada and New Brunswick, which make laws on the lands of the Elsipogtog’s ancestors, not them. Having sacomment_ID politely not and peacefully resisted, they eventually used force to prevent the dismantling of their barricade. More than 40 persons will be judged as common law criminals because politicians dcomment_ID not solve this problem. Only the international community can help Canadian’s First Nations because peaceful actions and demonstrations of First Nations do not have the power to change laws in Canada.