IMPORTANT UPDATE! Methane Gas Plants, Pictou County. Time to make your voice heard.

Hello everyone, as a decision on the proposed gas plants edges closer it is now more important than ever to both be heard and to stand alongside First Nations, ensuring the Federal Government upholds its responsibilities under the Peace and Friendship treaties.

Below is a letter that will send a strong message to the Minister of Crown/Indigenous Relations, the Honourable Rebecca Alty. Please find below the ministers email. Simply copy and paste the email, give your email a subject line and add something more you would like to say and lastly add your name at the end. Please also CC The Honourable Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services, both emails are below.

Sincere thanks!

EMAILS:

ministrerca-ministercir@rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca

mandy.gull-masty@sac-isc.gc.ca

*[YOUR NAME HERE]*

*[YOUR ADDRESS HERE]*

April 17th 2026

Dear Minister Alty

I write to you from Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people. You and I are both treaty people, and as a settler to these lands I am urging you to ensure that Canada upholds its responsibilities under the Peace and Friendship treaties that govern these lands.

Minister, the Nova Scotia government is proposing two 300 MW methane gas generating plants in the headwaters of the East and West rivers of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, rivers that are home to Plamu, (Atlantic Salmon) and Kataq (American Eel), both sacred species to the Mi’kmaq First Nation. These huge industrial projects will have federal effects within the watersheds of the East and West Rivers, both of which currently sustain a healthy Atlantic Salmon spawning run into tributaries a few hundred metres from where the gas plants will be built.

Federal concerns are outlined in the ‘issues’ section on the federal IAAC website for the Saltsprings and Marshdale proposals. Currently there are 30 or more federal ‘issues’ for both sites, many of which point to a lack of consultation with First Nations and the severe federal effects on Plamu (Atlantic Salmon). Both of these rivers are traditional unceded hunting and fishing territories of the Mi’kmaq Nation. The West River is a place where children from Pictou Landing First Nation have released Atlantic Salmon fry, grown in their own classrooms, for many years, a program financed mostly by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Community members from Pictou Landing First Nation have shared that they fish these rivers to feed their families and for other traditional purposes as part of their established rights laid out in the Peace and Friendship Treaties.

Minister, I urge you and your department to look seriously at these proposals to build gas plants in two Atlantic Salmon watersheds and see the negative effects that will occur through the eyes of First Nations people of the region who have not been adequately consulted by the Nova Scotia government. This is a critical moment to ensure the rights of the Mi’kmaq Nation are upheld as these projects move swiftly towards a decision very soon by federal ministers.

Yours sincerely

[YOUR NAME HERE]

CC The Honourable Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services