Arrests are mounting at protest camps near construction zones of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northwest B.C.
Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en nation's protest to keep pipeline workers out of the B.C. First Nation's traditional territory on the land of Wet’suwet’en First Nation in Winnipeg on Jan. 10, 2020.From the steps of the British Columbia legislature to Vancouver’s city hall to ports, bridges, railways and streets, protests are continuing to support hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation to halt construction of a natural gas pipeline in their traditional territories.
RCMP officers arrested 11 people Saturday who allegedly barricaded themselves in a warming centre in a forested area near the work site.Those arrested are accused of breaching a court injunction related to opposition to the 670-kilometre pipeline project that crosses Wet’suwet’en traditional territory near Smithers, B.C., located more than 1,100 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.
Protest supporters are gathering today at Vancouver city hall, and Indigenous youth and supporters continue to camp overnight on the front steps of the B.C. legislature in Victoria.
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