“It’s our duty to look after it, our duty to make sure Mother Earth is taken care of properly by the proper people.”
The pipeline is part of the $40-billion LNG Canada project that will export Canadian natural gas to Asian markets. The agreement with the company includes financial compensation for the elected councils.Gary Naziel, a former Wet’suwet’en elected councillor, told Global News he’s hopeful the rift can be healed between the elected and hereditary leaders of the First Nation.
The hereditary chiefs have declined a meeting with Coastal GasLink representatives after the company sent a letter Tuesday requesting to sit down and discuss the issues standing in the way of an agreement. Members of the Gidimt’en, one of five Wet’suwet’en clans, and supporters reoccupied the area along a logging road in April near the site where the injunction was enforced last year.
Chief Na’Moks told reporters at a news conference that same day that the Wet’suwet’en felled the trees to protect their own safety.
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