Here's What's Happening on Wet'suwet'en Territory

If you’ve been online or watched the news over the past few days, it’s impossible that you haven’t heard about the conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory. On February 6, in the early hours of the morning, RCMP officials outside of Houston, B.C., conducted a pre-dawn raid on one of three camps set up on the territory. These camps are occupied by Indigenous land defenders who are blocking construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Northern B.C.

But on December 31, 2019, the dispute heated up once again, when the B.C. Supreme Court granted Coastal GasLink an expanded injunction, allowing them to access the land and remove anyone in their way. In response, Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs issued the company an eviction notice in early January, saying the company was violating traditional Wet’suwet’en laws.

The hereditary chiefs say that they never consented to the pipeline and that a project like this will jeopardize the area’s natural resources and restrict access to their territory; and land defenders say that the Coastal GasLink project specifically poses a risk to the land, the water and their way of life.

So the government consulted with and was given permission by elected band leaders but *not* hereditary leaders. Which was probably Coastal GasLink’s intention, TBH. “I’m told by the Wet’suwet’en that both the hereditary chiefs and the elected band councils have worked in unity [in the past],” says Palmater. “The federal and provincial governments and corporations always try to undermine whatever operating system is saying no.

“The RCMP has something that’s called discretion,” Palmater says. “They can look at a situation and say ‘Well, this is really a private interest between a corporation and this First Nations group with constitutionally protected rights. We’re going to stand down and allow them to work out this issue through the courts or otherwise. And then when the provincial or federal governments ask us to intervene, if we need to, we will.’ But instead they always jump to enforce court judgements.

I just got out from #Gidimten clan territory on #Wetsuweten yintah, where RCMP conducted an aggressive, pre-dawn raid. Six land defenders arrested: pic.twitter.com/JkKempHUGM“We have been, for the last four years, railing about Donald Trump‘s interference with the right of the media to report [in the United States], and we have this happening right here,” says Palmater. “Journalists being arrested and arbitrarily detained, transported out of the territory and not allowed to report.

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