Two more people opposed to B.C. gas pipeline arrested: Wet’suwet’en chief GlobeBC
A checkpoint is seen at a bridge leading to the Unist'ot'en camp on a remote logging road near Houston, B.C., on January 17, 2019.A hereditary chief of the Wet’suwet’en nation says a woman has been arrested aboard a bus where she was living in northern British Columbia as police enforce an injunction related to opposition against a natural gas pipeline.
Enforcement began earlier this week after the provincial government and hereditary chiefs of the First Nation failed to reach an agreement in talks intended to de-escalate the dispute.“We were living there before the exclusion zone,” Na’moks says, adding police have asked residents of a cabin to leave. “You can’t abandon your home.”
Jen Wickham, a spokeswoman for the Gidimt’en, one of five clans of the Wet’suwet’en, says she had joined others near a road awaiting the arrival of the pair who had been arrested, about 40 kilometres away.She says others had blocked an exit route police would have to pass with the two people who were arrested.
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