A group of Passamaquoddy Tribe members in Maine have received notice from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) that the agency will cancel a 50-year lease with an Oklahoma-based company, Quoddy Bay LNG, for the construction of LNG terminal on an area of Passamaquoddy land known as Split Rock in Maine.

摘要

BIA's decision comes in the wake of almost five years of litigation and efforts by Nulankeyutmonen Nkihtaqmikon (NN), a group of members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe living on the Pleasant Point Reservation in northeastern Maine. NN was formed to protect the group's cultural and spiritual traditions from what it saw as the harmful effects of the proposed LNG terminal on Passamaquoddy Bay.