Wrote Nina Newington yesterday (Oct 2, 2026):
& AN UPDATE Oct 10, 2026:
…And then the operator moved his machine back down the road to where he had started.
I checked on my map of the buffer zones and the harvest plan.
The road building was stopped right at the boundary of the Black ash buffer zone.
What comes next? We’ll see.
The operator insisted — loudly enough for all of us to hear — that the road will be built and the forest will be cut.
View UPDATE Oct 10, 2026
& AN UPDATE Oct 5, 2026:
Nobody came at 7:30am this morning to operate the backhoe. No more roadbuilding, for today at least…See Update
At 7:30 this morning a truck pulled up on the road next to where we are camped on Crown land south of Goldsmith Lake. The driver inquired whether there was other equipment beside the grappler that was nearby. He was looking for the backhoe parked further down.
I suggested he should read the notice posted beside the road. I explained that it was a notice requiring a halt to activities including road building in this area as it is a Mi’kmaw Medicinal Harvest area.
He asked what the camp was doing here. I explained that we are here as Treaty partners observing whether Mi’kmaw rights are being respected. We are here too to be a voice for the voiceless, for species whose right to exist is at risk. Our government is failing to follow its own law by ignoring the Endangered Species Act.
