Trial of prominent Wet’suwet’en leader and land defenders begins

Three accused are charged with criminal contempt over Coastal GasLink pipeline blockades

by Jackie McKay, Jan 8, 2024

The trial is underway for three people charged with criminal contempt for breaking a court order forbidding them from blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Sleydo’ stands trial alongside Shaylynn Sampson, a Gitxsan woman with Wet’suwet’en family ties; and Corey Jocko, a Mohawk member of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy from Ontario. 

RCMP devote 40 investigators to attack at Coastal GasLink work site

RCMP seek to identify some 20 masked assailants who threatened Coastal GasLink pipeline contractors and caused millions of dollars in damage.

Heavy machinery at the CGL work site toppled over by raiders who apparently used other heavy machinery to carry out millions of dollars in damages.

by Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, Feb 18, 2022

Attackers disabled lighting and video-surveillance equipment during their raid on a remote Coastal GasLink work site in northwestern B.C. and commandeered heavy equipment to inflict damage estimated to be in the millions of dollars, the company said Friday.

Video and photos captured before the equipment was disabled in the attack have been turned over to RCMP.

Police are trying to identify suspects among the reported 20 to 40 individuals involved in the apparently co-ordinated attack that happened on Thursday, just after midnight.

CGL Pipeline work site attacked

Masked mob swarms Northern, B.C. pipeline work site, causes millions in damage

Two dump trucks damaged with heavy machinery commandeered at the site by the masked raiders.

by Darren Handschuh, Castanet, Feb 17, 2022

British Columbia’s minister of public safety Mike Farnworth has issued a statement condemning the attack on the Coastal GasLink site.

“The RCMP is conducting a full investigation into this egregious criminal activity that could have led to serious injury or loss of life,” Farnworth said.