T
he power of Mi'kmaq participation in the energy sector."Mi'
kmaq communities in Nova Scotia are completing a four-stage project that will see them put more energy into the grid than they collectively use.
Delegates at the Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Energy and Innovation Summit held this week in Membertou heard the final project in Amherst will soon come online.
"With projects completed and planned, Mi'kmaq wind projects would be producing more electricity than they use in their communities," Murray Coolican, deputy minister for energy, told CBC News."
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n apology is forthcoming
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Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy was arrested in 1929 and convicted for hunting out of season after being found with muskrat pelts. While Sylliboy attempted to use treaty rights as his defence, it wasn't until the 1980s that those rights were recognized by the courts. Sylliboy died in 1963.
Provincial Justice Minister Diana Whalen says an apology is forthcoming for the arrest and conviction of Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy. (CBC)
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