Negotiations between protesters and police in Rexton, N.B., as police began enforcing an injunction to end an ongoing demonstration against shale gas exploration in eastern New Brunswick on Thursday, Oct.17, 2013. An obscure conflict between the Mi'kmaq of eastern New Brunswick and a company searching for shale gas had dragged on for more than two years before it exploded as a national issue two months ago amid images of flaming Molotov cocktails and torched police cars. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan