[news] Shell Backs Away From Court Showdown Over Sacred Headwaters

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

August 31, 2007 (Vancouver, BC) — First Nations and concerned citizens in Vancouver and Smithers today say Royal Dutch Shell’s delay of legal action against the Sacred Headwaters blockaders shows Shell is concerned about growing opposition. Members of the Tahltan First Nation are blockading Shell’s coalbed methane project in the Sacred Headwaters, the birthplace of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine Rivers. Shell was to appear in Vancouver court today to request an injunction that would allow them to have the blockaders arrested.

  


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