B.C. chiefs protest,

Group of B.C. chiefs has blocked access to parts of project

CALGAR Y • Senior RCMP officers are in contact with First Nations protesters opposed to the $6.6-billion Coastal Gaslink pipeline, trying to negotiate a way for construction work on the natural gas pipeline to resume in north-central British Columbia.

“Or priority is to engage with CGL, Indigenous communities and government to facilitate a resolution without police enforcement,” RCMP Cpl. Madonna Saunderson said in an emailed statement, adding that the force’s senior commander “has already been in direct contact with representatives of all these stakeholder groups, including the Hereditary Chiefs.”

Over the weekend, a breakaway group of hereditary Wet’suwet’en chiefs who oppose the natural gas pipeline asked the RCMP to “refrain from interference” in the dispute over the project that will link gas fields near Dawson Creek to the $40-billion LNG Canada export project in the coastal community of Kitimat.

Source: coastal gaslink Aerial photos taken by Coastal Gaslink on Monday along the Morice Forest River Service Road show dozens of trees have been felled and are blocking the road, which leads to a Coastal Gaslink work camp, an hour from Houston, B.C.