This morning, RCMP announced they would be mobilizing their resources to enforce an injunction on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route.
On Sunday, Gidimt’en land defenders set up two more blockades on the Morice Forest Service Roads after serving CGL an eviction notice.
Later, CGL issued a statement saying some 500 workers had been trapped at workers camps on the site with limited access to supplies.
As a result, the RCMP deemed their move a rescue mission.
But, according to land defenders at the Coyote Camp, officers arrived this morning, read the injunction and announced that they were under arrest for impeding work progress.
They say RCMP and CGL began tearing down both sides of the blockade using heavy machinery, and that K-9 units were called in.
CGL says that they have the right to continue work after getting the approval of elected Band Councils along the route.
But the Gidimt’en, a clan of the Wet’suwet’en, say their Hereditary Chiefs were not consulted, and that the work can cause severe damage to their territory and way of life.
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