Coastal GasLink launched its court case against protesters in November, 2018. On Dec. 31, a B.C. Supreme Court judge extended an injunction against protesters
A checkpoint is seen at a bridge leading to the Unist'ot'en camp on a remote logging road near Houston, B.C., on Jan. 17, 2019.RCMP will be cleared by the end of this week to enforce a court injunction against protesters who are opposed to TC Energy Corp.'s $6.6-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline project in northern British Columbia.
Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders will likely have until late Thursday or early Friday to remove any obstacles that would prevent workers from getting to their construction sites on one section of the route, said Michael Lee Ross, a lawyer who represents Ms. Huson and Mr. Naziel. On Jan. 7, 2019, RCMP arrested 14 protesters at a police checkpoint along the B.C. logging road. Those arrests garnered international media coverage.
Coastal GasLink said on Monday that it “continues to remobilize construction crews across the right-of-way in anticipation of work resumption and ramp-up this week.” RCMP didn’t return calls for comment. “Industry phrases it as an energy corridor, but we say no,” said Ms. Wickham, who also goes by Sleydo’ as her hereditary name. “For the Wet’suwet’en, it’s the hereditary clan system that makes decisions on our territory, not the elected band councils.”
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