“The Minister therefore committed palpable and overriding error when she concluded that the level of consultation was appropriate.”

Lawyer Raymond Larkin told Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards there weren't sufficient consultations with the community before the project was granted approval.

The band says the affidavit shows the Sipekne'katik First Nation did not have the resources "to engage in meaningful consultation with the province."

The women's lawyer, Michael McDonald, is arguing before Nova Scotia Supreme Court that the women had the right to be on Alton Natural Gas property along the Shubenacadie River.

Ingrid Waldron, author of the book that inspired the documentary, says actress Ellen Page reached out to her about shedding light on the issue of environmental racism.

The grandmothers occupied the Alton Gas site in April as part of an ongoing Indigenous and environmental campaign to protect the land and water from developments that could harm the ecosystem.

The women's lawyer, Michael McDonald, says he plans to argue before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court that his clients had the right to be on Alton Natural Gas property along the Shubenacadie River.

The Marine Animal Response Society said their members responded after being contacted about the whale but that it died soon after they arrived. 

In a written decision released Thursday, a three-member panel upheld a lower court ruling in Alex Cameron's favour that waived the government's privilege on internal government communications,

The injunction says that protesters Dale Poulette, his partner Rachael Greenland-Smith and others must stop occupying a two-storey mud-and-straw hut on the site.