UBCIC Joins Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs in Calling for a Stop Work Order for the Coastal GasLink Pipeline

Another Indigenous group in BC has joined calls for Ottawa to issue a stop work order for the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Earlier this month, the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and David Suzuki Foundation issued a joint release also calling for work to cease.

Those calls came after Nation officials observed contractors installing large pumps under the Clore River, kicking up a plume of sediment in the process.

Sediment and erosion control has been an on-going issue for CGL, who has been issued more than 50 warnings, 16 orders, and 2 fines to date by the BC Environmental Assessment Office.

Now, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs have joined them in calling for a stop-work order from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

They say the continued failure to control sediment has put crucial salmon spawning habitats in jeopardy, and that CGL is violating both Wet’suwet’en and Canadian law.