A security worker for the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Northern British Columbia was alone in his truck in the early hours of Thursday, filing a routine report, when he saw what looked like puffs of smoke in the darkness. Then, in a side mirror, he saw several masked people coming up behind his vehicle, carrying what appeared to be flares, as another person started cutting open a nearby steel gate with a cordless grinder.
The incident has once again turned a spotlight on a project whose existence has inflamed long-standing tensions over Indigenous rights and title, and over the methods industry and governments use to build infrastructure. According to the account, Trevor radioed other security staff posted nearby and learned they were also under attack by people with axes. He and other workers were eventually able to escape to a workers’ camp in the area. Trevor said the back window of his truck was smashed. An axe landed on the back seat, he recalled, and someone tossed a torch into the bed of the truck. The company has said no workers were injured.
In 2019, 2020 and again last year, RCMP conducted raids on protest camps to enforce a B.C. Supreme Court injunction, obtained by Coastal GasLink, against interfering with work on the pipeline.“This attack shocked our communities,” said Maureen Luggi, elected chief of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, formerly known as the Broman Lake Indian Band.
In a statement, the Carrier Sekani said the attack “appears to have been a highly organized operation carried out by violent and dangerous criminals.”
jordanbpeterson Trudeau ignored this ACTUAL TERRORIST ATTACK
jordanbpeterson Always remember these are Liberal voters. This is what it looks like when the left goes too far.
Yeah I think this wasn't just some group this was by a very organized and serious outfit almost military like hmmm the white planes in northern ont ?
Hence the appropriate term for the attackers is: terrorists.
jordanbpeterson Not as terrifying as bouncy castles . . .
cafreeland How is the investigation into this going?
jordanbpeterson Terrorists are terrifying.