By John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Daily Gleaner The two farmers, both neighbours, didn’t see eye to eye on shale gas fracking. One, Stephen Moffett, once ran the biggest pig farm in the country east of Quebec. The other, Beth Nixon, is proud to say her family has owned its rolling hayfields in Penobsquis, a short drive from Sussex, for more than a century. Both have had production gas wells on their land for about 25 years, and both wanted to give their opinion at New Brunswick’s inaugural public meeting last week about possibly lifting the 12-year moratorium on further natural gas development. Nixon was one of more than a dozen people who lined up at the microphone Nov. 3 during the question-and-answer portion of the two-hour meeting…
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