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eviction notice given to Coastal GasLink

‘The jurisdiction on the land belongs to the people,’ Hereditary Chief speaks to Coastal GasLink eviction

Jan 6, 2020 | 2:11 PM

HOUSTON–The Wet’suwet’en Nation gave their eviction notice to Coastal GasLink on Saturday asking pipeline staff to vacate the territory immediately, saying that workers were “currently trespassing” on unceded territory.

The eviction notice came after an interlocutory injunction by the BC Supreme Court on Dec.31st allowing access to workers to specific areas of pipeline construction without protest.

“Judge Church had put down her ruling and she upheld an interlocutory injunction but within her ruling, she stated that our Wet’suwet’en Law…is a belief and a point of view and that is untrue,” said Hereditary Chief Na’Moks of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

The eviction notice read “Coastal GasLink is in Violation of Wet’suwet’en law and it is our responsibility now to uphold Wet’suwet’en law to maintain the integrity of our territories for future generations.”

“We as Hereditary Chiefs… we are the law of the land. Our law says that the land is us and we are the land so we must protect it and this is what we are doing, peacefully,” said Na’Moks.

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GasLink released a statement Monday saying that work is scheduled to resume this week, as early as Tuesday and that most field construction activities had been paused from Dec.20th to Jan.5th due to the Holidays.

The pipeline, from Kitimat to Dawson Creek was approved by the government in 2018

“The approval was done by British Columbia itself, oil and gas commission, and not by the Hereditary Chiefs our house groups or our clans. They have gone to elected officials to get their approvals but the jurisdiction on the land belongs to the people, not to any form of elected official,” said Na’Moks.

In an earlier statement, Gaslink said “we are disappointed that after nearly a year of successful joint implementation of the Access Agreement the Unist’ot’en has decided to terminate it…We have reached out to better understand their reasons and are hopeful we can find a mutually agreeable path forward.”

Tuesday, January 7th will mark one year since protesters were arrested from preventing access to pipeline workers.