Some local residents say they’re prepared to do whatever they can to shine a national spotlight on the issue of contaminated well water.
The Council of Canadians has been giving local members of the activist group Water Wells First with in-depth training on civil disobedience tactics.
“That would involve certainly information pickets as an example, it can be chaining ourselves to some construction equipment to delay construction,” spokesman Kevin Jakubec explains. “The objective of all of these tactics is to raise national awareness so that Canadian press across the country can see what’s going on here.”
However, Jakubec says everyone understand they’re opening themselves up to potential legal action.
“It’s certainly a possibility, and we’re aware that the police could arrest us,” Jakubec says. “We have people who are willing to take those risks because it’s important to protect this water.”
He says the types of non-violent tactics they use will depend on what happens with North Kent Wind construction.
