Page takes aim at underground gas storage plan

HALIFAX — Hollywood actress Ellen Page is tweeting her opposition to a controversial project that would eventually see natural gas stored in huge underground caverns north of Halifax.

Indigenous protesters have set up a permanent camp near the Shubenacadie River to protest Alton Natural Gas LP, which intends to pump salt brine into the waterway after flushing out the caverns.

Members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in nearby Indian Brook have argued that the project will hurt the 73-kilometre tidal river, which runs through the middle of Nova Scotia.

The Halifax-born Page lambasted the project on Friday, describing it as “a massive risk to the Shubenacadie River,” and asking that her 1.4 million followers support the Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies opposing Alton Gas.

“This project is a massive risk to the Shubenacadie River. Alton Gas will be releasing 10 million litres of brine into the river each day,” she wrote in a handwritten note posted on her Twitter account.

“Mi'kmaq and non-Indigenous allies are actively opposing the completion of the project, and they need our support.”

The “Juno” and “Trailer Park Boys” star also tweeted out a recommendation for "There's Something in the Water," a book by Nova Scotian author and activist Ingrid Waldron, which outlines cases of environmental racism in Nova Scotia and Canada.